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Did you not finish the article? Later: > I kept returning in my mind to the question of the interface itself. To how the fictional, fantastical cop-movie inter
by 14u2c 4y ago
Did you not finish the article? Later:
> I kept returning in my mind to the question of the interface itself. To how the fictional, fantastical cop-movie interface somehow became a reality.
> This slip between fiction and reality seems to speak more broadly to the role of law enforcement itself, and to how self-mythologizing police narratives go on to shape the world. To put it another way, the footage is a product of the fantasy that the role of the police is to protect us from ubiquitous hidden danger, a fantasy generated in no small part by the police themselves.