surveillance

angela crow writing. ceramics. photos. …

winter light

sorting gazes

in the circle of our familiar
moving through a mass of snow
taking a long New Year’s day walk

we settle into conversations
shift from story to story
turn around, point

watch a man walk
miniature cows through
the palace grounds

David Lyon

The more stringent and rigorous the panoptic regime, the more it generates active resistance, whereas the more soft and subtle the panoptic strategies, the more it produces the desired docile bodies. – Theorizing Surveillance

dis/grace

The truth is, he has never had much of an eye for rural life, despite all his reading in Wordsworth. Not much of an eye for anything, except pretty girls; and where has that got him? Is it too late to educate the eye?

J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace