Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-289) and index.

Contenidos: Acknowledgments

Introduction: From Landgrab to Data Grab

The Four X’s of Colonialism

Terms and Conditions

Raw Materials

Reading the Present through a Colonial Lens

Your Guide to the Book

1. A New Colonialism

No Capitalism without Colonialism

Data and the Continuation of Colonial Violence by Other Means

The Colonial Roots of AI

The Resilience of Colonialism

We Need Not Be Passive Victims

2. Data Territories

When Society Becomes the Territory

New Data Relations Mean New Power Relations

Data, AI and the Environment

There’s a Data Grab Happening (Very) Near You

Data Territories and the Transformation of Work

Global Inequality, Redux

3. Data’s New Civilising Mission

The Emperor’s New "Civilising" Clothes

Civilising Narrative #1: Everyone Wants an Easier Life

Civilising Narrative #2: This Is How We Connect!

Civilising Narrative #3: AI Is Smarter than Humans

Why Civilisational Stories Work

4. The New Colonial Class

The Social Quantification Sector

The Big Data Harvesters

The Wider Colonial Class

Serving the Algorithmic State

Data’s Lone Adventurers

We the Consumers

5. Voices of Defiance

Colonialism’s Witnesses

No Modernity without Colonialism

Warnings from an Earlier Computer Age

Imagining the Battle to Come

Resources for Resistance?

6. A Playbook for Resistance

Resistance Is Already Here, and Nothing Can Stop It

Radically Reimagining How We Use Data

Introducing the Playbook

Play #1: Working within the System

Play #2: Working against the System

Play #3: Working beyond the System

Conclusion: And If We Don’t Resist?

Notes

Further Reading Suggestions

Index

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