As we show in detail in chapter 5, all notions of autonomy, until now, have assumed that individuals have access to a minimal space of the self that is its space of becoming. But the goal of continuous data appropriation intrudes on this space and changes humanity’s relations to external infrastructures decisively, erasing, potentially forever, the boundary between the flow of human experience and the environment of economic power that surrounds it.

Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, loc. 75