“What does the ‘Capture All’ logic entail and what does it mean to live in an algorithmic world?

How does the desired ‘full take’ shape not just the contemporary lived environment but our very being, working and acting within it?

The idea behind a ‘Capture All’ society is not one based on a totalitarian model; it rather reflects a new system of organisation which, based on the datafication, quantification and correlation of everything, can be predictive and to some extent pre-emptive, allowing new modes of regulation and control.

Playful, competitive and productive as a ‘capture all’ society claims to be, it constantly aims for an accelerated optimisation surpassing any limitations between life and work. Its rankings and ratings, mappings and visualisations depict a gamifying condition where individuals never rest but are continuously connected and active, allowing behavioural patterns to become detectable and recognisable. But are we then faced with a new type of governmentality towards a calculative life?

And how do we respond to it? Which discourses are still needed and which counter-practices can be employed to provoke change in a datafying world?”