Datafication

Rendition describes the concrete operational practices through which dispossession is accomplished, as human experience is claimed as raw material for datafication and all that follows, from manufacturing to sales.

I discovered the work of scholars Nick Couldry and Ulises A. Mejias, whose foundational text The Costs of Connection, published just that year [2019], argued that Silicon Valley’s pervasive datafication of everything was leading to a return of disturbing historical patterns of conquest and extractivism.