Data Politics: Worlds, Subjects, Rights

Cover......Page 1
Half Title......Page 2
Series Page......Page 3
Title Page......Page 4
Copyright Page......Page 5
Table of Contents......Page 6
Textbox......Page 8
The editors......Page 9
The contributors......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 11
Introduction......Page 12
What is data politics?......Page 14
Part I: conditions of possibility of data politics......Page 19
Part II: worlds......Page 20
Part III: subjects......Page 23
Part IV: rights......Page 25
References......Page 26
PART I: Conditions of possibility of data politics......Page 30
Introduction......Page 32
“Long data” and environmental knowledge......Page 33
The glass laboratory......Page 35
Truces as targets: three climate data controversies of the early 21st century......Page 38
New fronts in the siege......Page 44
Conclusion......Page 49
References......Page 50
Chapter 3: Against infrasomatization: towards a critical theory of algorithms......Page 54
“Freedom”......Page 59
“Chaos”......Page 69
Conclusions......Page 70
Notes......Page 72
Bibliography......Page 73
Introduction......Page 75
Surveillance capitalism......Page 77
Surveillance culture......Page 80
Situating surveillance culture, surveillance capitalism......Page 82
Data politics and an optics of hope......Page 84
References......Page 86
PART II: Worlds......Page 90
Chapter 5: Mutual entanglement and complex sovereignty in cyberspace......Page 92
The territorialization impulse in cyberspace......Page 93
The United States and the transformation of cyberspace......Page 95
The extraterritorial projection of autocratic power......Page 97
Conclusion......Page 104
References......Page 106
Introduction......Page 111
Data ownership: an electronic encomienda......Page 115
Intelligence data: the work and competitions of intelligence actors......Page 117
The transnational space of intelligence: the structural modalities and dispositions of actors regarding the digital......Page 120
Concluding remarks......Page 129
Notes......Page 131
Bibliography......Page 132
Junk news is not about algorithmic persuasion......Page 134
Junk news as a viral pollution......Page 137
Five modes of junk news production......Page 138
References......Page 148
Chapter 8: Seeing like Big Tech: security assemblages, technology, and the future of state bureaucracy......Page 156
Shifting public-private assemblages in the security field......Page 158
Bureaucracies in the age of data governance......Page 164
The Government Machine and the rule of law......Page 167
References......Page 170
PART III: Subjects......Page 176
Chapter 9: Towards data justice: bridging anti-surveillance and social justice activism......Page 178
The Snowden leaks and political activism......Page 179
Anti-surveillance and techno-legal resistance......Page 182
Resistance to datafication amongst political activists......Page 184
Responses to Snowden......Page 185
Resisting data collection......Page 187
“Data justice” and the bridging of activism(s)......Page 189
Conclusion......Page 193
Notes......Page 194
References......Page 195
Automation has already happened......Page 198
Automation makes futures......Page 200
Automation needs data......Page 203
Automation intensifies extraction......Page 207
Automation adapts to environments......Page 210
Automation fails......Page 211
References......Page 214
Postcolonial data politics......Page 218
Governing peoples: biopolitics and empire......Page 220
Governing postcolonial peoples......Page 228
Decolonising data’s empire......Page 234
References......Page 235
PART IV: Rights......Page 240
Introduction: accumulation of digital data in the information society......Page 242
The life and death of digital data......Page 245
A first legal-informatics issue: data portability......Page 246
A second legal-informatics issue: the right to be forgotten......Page 247
The impossibility of a technological oblivion......Page 250
Conclusions: three forms of data oblivion......Page 252
References......Page 257
Introduction......Page 259
Right to the city, right to data......Page 262
Citizen data, urban worlds......Page 268
Conclusion: Propositions for citizen data and urban worlds......Page 273
Acknowledgments......Page 275
Bibliography......Page 276
Introduction......Page 278
Why data citizens?......Page 279
Data citizen......Page 280
Data citizens and international human rights: the ICCPR......Page 282
Personal data sharing among states – hastening the emergence of the data citizen?......Page 288
Conclusion......Page 292
Notes......Page 293
Bibliography......Page 294
Index......Page 296