Shoshana Zuboff is an American author, social psychologist, philosopher, and scholar. She is known for her work on the concept of "surveillance capitalism", a novel market form and a specific logic of capitalist accumulation. She has authored several books including "In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power" and "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power".
As information technology restructures the work situation, it abstracts thought from action.
Activities that seem to represent choices are often inert reproductions of accepted practice.
The civilizing process has increased the distance between behavior and the impulse life of the animal body.