Madeleine

“I remembered how Dad used to say that possession is nine points of the law. I still didn't know exactly what it meant.
But I did know exactly where the key to his old office was hidden.”
― Catrina Davies, Homesick: Why I Live in a Shed

“Even the things that seemed the most solid and timeless, like towering cliffs of granite, were in fact in a state of constant flux. It was comforting and also frightening. Frightening because there was nothing to hold on to. Comforting because there was nothing to lose.”
― Catrina Davies, Homesick: Why I Live in a Shed

“Forget the cliché that if it’s free, “You are the product.” You are not the product; you are the abandoned carcass. The “product” derives from the surplus that is ripped from your life.”
― Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

“It was there, in Spain, that the right to the future tense was on the move, insisting that the operations of surveillance capitalism and its digital architecture are not, never were, and never would be inevitable. Instead, the opposition asserted that even Google’s capitalism was made by humans to be unmade and remade by democratic processes, not commercial decree. Google’s was not to be the last word on the human or the digital future.”
― Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism