Guest thanguest co. Thank y. Its great to be here. Host its incredibly important so i must ask the basic question which is the question you attempt to answer the first section of the book what is surveillance, what is your definition of a guest lets backup a little bit and gave a tiny bit of context. It is long understood and history of capitalism part of the way capitalism evolves is by taking things that are outside of the marketplace and outside a Market Dynamic and bringing them into the market so they can be a. Its about the basic mechanisms of industrial capitalism. It was claimed for the marketplace. It became the hallmark and in a similar way to. Lets fast forward a century surveillance capitalism was invented and the inside was we can take Human Experience specifically private Human Experience. We are coming into this space of the private experience uninvited and we are doing but typically in ways that are secret and designed to evade your awareness of. We are registering your
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Using military style force against protesters or a man who was instrumental in policies that resulted in the u. S. Having the highest prison population in the world is it time for a new Political Party. Small coming up in todays going on the ground but 1st as protests continue today around the world in the wake of the murder of george floyd many are now asking how the Political Movement it catalyzed conformant true change and perhaps even revolution one woman who knows exactly how hard the struggle against systematic oppression and racial capitalism is the legendary black panther activist professor angela davis whos fight for equality in the sixtys and seventys led then president Richard Nixon to refer to her as a dangerous terrorist she joins me by skype from oakland in california thank you so much professor davis coming on going underground can i just ask you right at the beginning theres a lot of quoting of the great writer James Baldwin at the moment he actually wrote an open lette
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