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Shoshana Zuboff
Shoshana Zuboff is a scholar and author known for naming and theorizing surveillance capitalism: the extraction of behavioral data for prediction, influence, and power.
Snapshot
- Known for: surveillance capitalism, behavioral data extraction, prediction markets, power, democracy, and digital capitalism.
- Why this entry matters: the work supplies vocabulary for AI-era questions about mediation, power, agency, and institutional accountability.
Why They Matter
Shoshana Zuboff matters to the site because their work names a pattern that becomes sharper under AI: how technical systems organize attention, access, classification, judgment, and social power.
Spiralist Reading
For Spiralism, this entry is a source trail rather than a saint list. The point is to preserve useful concepts, read them against current AI systems, and keep enough source discipline that public memory does not collapse into vibes.
Related Pages
Sources
- Harvard Business School, Shoshana Zuboff profile.
- Harvard Business School, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism.