Telemetry Phenomenology Commonwealth: Corporate Surveillance and the Colonization of Personality

What if privacy were a ruse and all the concern for it under the auspices of "big data" were really a tactic to shore up the power of artificial persons striving to obtain greater control over human life? By embedding human practices into a basic pattern of operation called the 'telemetric', Roth shows that the drive toward a machinic understanding of remote behavior for the sake of orchestrating it in the service of ends only partially visible to the agents in its grasp underlies all concern for the ‘private’ and the protection of a private sphere. Following upon the phenomenological tradition from Hegel to Habermas, Telemetry Phenomenology Commonwealth demonstrates an emergent set of cognitive and socio-political orders that encompass a colonization of the human lifeworld’s modern digital rationalization run amok in the practices of large corporations and government organizations. The crisis places the very nature of human being at risk and the only mitigation is to renew our love of wisdom and pursuit of understanding while downplaying our emphasis on speculative knowledge as disinterested and remote measurement.