| José María Mateos on Sat, 8 Jul 2017 01:06:55 +0200 (CEST) |
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On Fri, Jul 07, 2017 at 07:33:51AM +0200, Patrice Riemens wrote:
surveillance technology. Helicopters are permanently “parked” in the clouds, so the sound of their rotors becomes a sort of background music you soon stop noticing. Perpetual police and ambulance sirens,
In Madrid, around 2011, with all the social unrest, the local Occupy movement (15-M) and everything that came after (the rise of Podemos and a right wing party that won the 2012 elections with absolute majority), there was one helicopter "parked" permanently parked on top of the city. For a while, it became such a permanent feature that someone created its own Twitter account:
https://twitter.com/putohelicoptero "Puto helicóptero" == "Fucking helicopter" It's still alive today, but it's not the same. JMM. # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected] # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject: