Rosamond, Emily. 2017. It Sees (Notes Toward a Cultural History of Financial Vision). In: Inte Gloerich; Geert Lovink and Patricia de Vries, eds. Moneylab Reader Reader 2: Overcoming the Hype. Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, pp. 101-114. ISBN 978-94-92302-19-9 [Book Section]

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As Shoshana Zuboff has argued, we have entered a new phase of capitalism. Surveillance capitalism, as she terms it, invents new regimes of accumulation based on analysing and intervening in online users' habits for profit - and thereby alienating people from their own behaviour. How might the aesthetic prehistories of surveillance capitalism be understood? Discussing eighteenth-century it-narratives alongside recent artworks, I argue for understanding the surveillance-capitalist moment as part of a longer history of financial vision, comprised of narratives and artworks that depart from the conceit that financial interests somehow "see" the world.

Item Type:	Book Section
Keywords:	contemporary art, finance, surveillance capitalism, it-narratives, Thomas Bridges, Amir Chasson, Mark Lombardi, Erica Scourti
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Visual Cultures
Dates:	Date Event 25 September 2017 Accepted December 2017 Published
Item ID:	21838
Date Deposited:	09 Oct 2017 09:34
Last Modified:	29 Apr 2020 16:40
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/21838

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