This article offers a novel conceptual framework to enable empirical investigation and analysis of the different ways in which contemporary data practices are entangled with colonialism. Departing from recent theorizations of the politics and political economy of data and data-driven technologies, including the theory of so-called data colonialism, I argue for a historicized and differentiated account of the colonial processes of dispossession at stake in datafication and the proliferation of data-dependent technologies. By undertaking a broad engagement with decolonial thinking, I demonstrate the need to move beyond an examination of how everyday life is datafied to be extracted like a natural resource. I show that such analogies are inapt and occlude colonial relations reproduced through datafication. Our understanding of these processes would find a firmer footing not in historical analogy, but in our colonial present. I propose that the modality of data's power lies not in the extraction of value as such, but in the interaction of orders of knowledge with orders of value. This reordering both acts as a motor of further colonial epistemic violence and creates the conditions for a new apparatus of racialized dispossession. Giving examples from migration governance, I set out its targets, objects, and operations.

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不仅仅是提取：重新思考数据的殖民政治经济

本文提供了一个新颖的概念框架，以实证调查和分析当代数据实践与殖民主义纠缠在一起的不同方式。与最近关于数据和数据驱动技术的政治和政治经济学的理论化，包括所谓的数据殖民主义理论不同，我主张对数据化和数据扩散中危及的剥夺殖民过程进行历史化和差异化的解释。依赖数据的技术。通过广泛参与非殖民化思维，我证明需要超越对日常生活如何数据化以像自然资源一样提取的检查。我表明这样的类比是不恰当的，并且排除了通过数据化复制的殖民关系。我们对这些过程的理解不会在历史类比中找到更坚实的基础，而是在我们的殖民时代。我提出，数据力量的形式不在于提取价值本身，而在于知识秩序与价值秩序的相互作用。这种重新排序既充当了进一步的殖民认知暴力的动力，又为一种新的种族化剥夺机器创造了条件。我以迁移治理为例，阐述了它的目标、对象和操作。这种重新排序既充当了进一步的殖民认知暴力的动力，又为一种新的种族化剥夺机器创造了条件。我以迁移治理为例，阐述了它的目标、对象和操作。这种重新排序既充当了进一步的殖民认知暴力的动力，又为一种新的种族化剥夺机器创造了条件。我以迁移治理为例，阐述了它的目标、对象和操作。