Marie Davidson's new album 'City of Clowns' is heavily influenced by Shoshana Zuboff's concept of surveillance capitalism. Co-produced with Soulwax, the album channels a raw, dystopian sound that critiques modern technology's exploitation of human data. Davidson addresses the themes of data collection, loss of individuality, and the emotional alienation caused by technological advances. Through quotes and concepts from Zuboff, she illustrates how individuals become mere commodities within this system, instead of valued participants in society.
In the surveillance economy, you and I are neither customers nor products but 'the objects from which raw materials are extracted and expropriated,' Zuboff writes.
You learn to sacrifice your freedom to collective knowledge imposed by others and for the sake of their guaranteed outcomes,
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