We do love our comfortable ideas of class, order, family, genus, species...

I don't think there's anything better than a workman.-Laurence Olivier

...What a country!

Sorry.

Intriguing.

McLeoud House Mirror, done on a grand scale. I love it!

In your article, Jen, you have surrendered to the wrong reality:

"We already know that surveillance is disturbing for its two entwined failures: Its vision for us is violently reductive, and it never sees from inside."

A failure is a shortcoming or a problem to be fixed. Assessing these as failures is a spur to address them, to make surveillance both all-encompassing and from the inside out. This is not a desirable outcome.

Another way to frame this would be to say that surveillance is disturbing for its two entwined failures: Our daily lives are becoming property and that property is owned by the state. If we addressed those failures, the outcome would be radically different.