([Capture All](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/events/capture-all)) A new colonial era is under way. This time the target isn’t land or natural resources, but human life itself: human action and experience that can be converted into profit through the medium of data extraction. This is data colonialism. This represents a deepening of colonialism as significant as the original colonial landgrab of five centuries ago. Historic colonialism preceded capitalism and laid its foundations, based on brutal violence whose implications continue today. The new data colonialism is based, by contrast, on social relations established under capitalism: its violence takes a symbolic form, an opaque and automated violence, that threatens human freedom. Join Nick Couldry & Ulises Mejías as they discuss the data colonialism thesis developed in their book *The costs of Connection: How Data is Colonising Human Life* and *Appropriating It for Capitalism*, and their project (with Paola Ricaurte) Tierra Común and its interventions for data decolonisation. The *Capture All* lecture series is presented as part of the *Capture All* program of creative and critical intensives, which bring together Australian and Indian artists to investigate the relation of the sonic to networked forms of capture and control in settler- and post-colonial contexts. *Capture All* is produced by Liquid Architecture (Melbourne) and Sarai-CSDS (New Delhi) and is curated by Laura McLean and Mehak Sawhney.