Reading James Bridle's SciFi short about a post mass-data world[1]. Recommended by Bruce Sterling[2]. Leading to re-visiting Bridle's blog and a piece about 5-eyes surveillance[3]. And his short film of a CGI walk-through of UK immigrant detention centres[4]. And another piece about the Space Blanket as a A Flag For No Nations (or perhaps a Flag Of No Nation)[5]. All while listening to Fatima Al Qadiri - Brute, a soundtrack for 21st century protest[6]. 

[1] http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-end-of-big-data
[2] http://www.wired.com/beyond-the-beyond/2016/01/the-end-of-big-data-a-science-fiction-story-by-james-bridle/
[3] http://booktwo.org/notebook/hyper-stacks-post-enlightenment/
[4] http://booktwo.org/notebook/seamless-transitions/
[5] http://booktwo.org/notebook/a-flag-for-no-nations/
[6] http://www.factmag.com/2016/01/20/fatima-al-qadiri-new-album-brute-battery/
http://thequietus.com/articles/19578-listen-new-fatima-al-qadiri [7]
[7] Coincidentally, the image for Brute is a TellyTubby wearing riot police gear. And while it's obviously the purple TinkyWinky famously outed by Jerry Falwell for being a closet gay, It's got Po's circular aerial and not TinkyWinky's triangle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletubbies#Tinky_Winky_controversy. Except that actually it's Joe Kline's Po-Po [8]
[8]https://www.modernartoxford.org.uk/event/josh-kline-freedom/
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