We invite you to the series of meetings "Surveillance Capitalism: Analyzing Zuboff's Theory"

We invite you to the series of meetings "Surveillance Capitalism: Analyzing Zuboff's Theory"

Together with Gaidar Institute Press and the Dal, a philosophical bookstore, the DH Center is launching a series of four meetings dedicated to philosopher Shoshanna Zuboff's books "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Battle for the Human Future on the New Frontiers of Power" and "Surveillance Capitalism or Democracy?"

We shall be reading and discussing "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Battle for the Human Future on the New Frontiers of Power" and "Surveillance Capitalism or Democracy?" together with Maximillian Neapolitansky, philosophy researcher, author of the books "What Is Truth?" and "Who Invented the Earth?", editor of the "Vchemsut" media outlet and postgraduate student at the DH Center and Artem Serebryakov, researcher at the Department for Critical Theory of Culture at the NRU Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg. We will discuss how surveillance capitalism is changing not only the economic system, but also the political one; what mechanisms it uses to predict and control user behavior; and what threats it poses to modern democracy.

Meeting schedule

5 Dec
7:00 PM
The Foundations of Surveillance Capitalism
Moderator: Maximillian Neapolitansky
12 Dec
7:00 PM
Consolidation of Surveillance Capitalism
Moderator: Maximillian Neapolitansky
20 Dec
7:00 PM
Instrumental Power for the Third Modernity
Moderator: Artem Serebryakov
26 Dec
7:00 PM
Surveillance Capitalism or Democracy?
Moderator: Artem Serebryakov

Register for a meeting 5/12

REGISTER

After registration, short text fragments will be available to participants to make it easier to follow and participate in the discussion.

Participants will also be able to purchase books at a 15% discount at the Dal bookstore.

Gaidar Institute Press
Book “Dal”
DH Center

Wednesday, 26.11.2025