“ ‘Alienation’—I know it is there in the love song I sing or the poem I recite, in the banknote I handle or the shop I enter, in the poster I glance at or in the lines of this journal. At the very moment the human is defined as ‘having possessions’ I know it is there, dispossessing the human.
— Lefebvre, CVQ I, 160-1/148
