"So, what would it look like to reject the regime of cheap data, and bring data — the bits of life we coproduce from our bodies with our technologies — back into the web of life? Can we “decolonize data” or reclaim a “data commons,” especially when big data itself is the direct product of previous appropriations of cheap natures? There are at least a few projects that are pushing back against the corporate data regime in genuinely radical ways that tackle the root of the problem (capitalism), not just its manifestations (surveillance)."