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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power

Zuboff, Shoshana. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power. New York: PublicAffairs, 2019.

Why this matters here

Zuboff’s The Age of Surveillance Capitalism argues that platform firms extract behavioral surplus for prediction products and reshape power beyond ordinary market exchange. Living in Sediment places continuous platform relationships beside subscription as the default rhythm of possession—asking how successful structures change more than the problem they first solved, including what “owning” software and media comes to mean.