Lane von Herzen: Attribution

My Third Novel's Conclusion, My Heartbreak

My heart begins to break when I think about completing this particular book -- because this narrative has sustained me like no other story I've known. It's both more personal and more universal than my other works. But beyond memory and archetype, it's a cri-de-coeur about needing to become the person one is destined to be. And in the writing, I have met my own life's work, my own fated journey -- having the sense all the while that the pages are suffused with a resonance, an energy, an electrified field that defies explanation. Writers hope and pray to be overtaken by a work in this way -- to be conscripted into passionate service of a profound story. To experience it even once in a lifetime seems a great privilege. I still have several months before this novel is complete, and this constitutes my reprieve. Because I'm not ready for the beauty to end.

Saturday, October 18, 2025

Attribution

Please note that I have updated my post entitled "Why the U.S. Military Should Not Be Building Military Installations for Others" to include a citation as follows:

Professor Zuboff's book importantly discusses the manner in which large scale surveillance of the public has become a profitable government activity. Professor Zuboff demonstrates both subtlety of mind and rich insights regarding the manner in which surveillance capitalism has arisen within Western societies and others. That said, Professor Zuboff misunderstands the fundamental purpose of surveillance capitalism and fails to link it to larger and more momentous sociopolitical shifts. Beyond this, she does not possess sufficient information about the attendant sequelae of surveillance capitalism, nor its transformative and perilous origins. If Professor Zuboff characterizes the tail of the tiger with magnificent perceptive skill, she misses the beast to which it is attached. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism is well worth reading with these critical caveats in mind.