{"id":1041,"date":"2007-11-24T23:02:28","date_gmt":"2007-11-25T03:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/25\/surveillancesaver-again\/"},"modified":"2007-11-27T00:37:09","modified_gmt":"2007-11-27T04:37:09","slug":"surveillancesaver-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/24\/surveillancesaver-again\/","title":{"rendered":"SurveillanceSaver again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following up from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/21\/making-the-point-with-art\/\">the recent post on SurveillanceSaver<\/a>, I saw that very talented writer <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/M._John_Harrison\">M.<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/greatsfandf.com\/AUTHORS\/MJohnHarrison.php\">John<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/uzwi.wordpress.com\/about\/\">Harrison<\/a> had <a href=\"http:\/\/uzwi.wordpress.com\/2007\/11\/23\/away-again\/\">also been playing with it<\/a>. Just let me quote him:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>after a bit, the narrative possibilities collapse, the intensity of your gaze subsides &amp; these are just empty corners of the world again. It\u2019s a bit like hitch-hiking &amp; not getting a ride. I can understand the Ballardian imperative to usurp &amp; undermine the ideology &amp; aesthetics of surveillance by turning it into a game. But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.notbored.org\/the-scp.html\">this looks like a more entertaining way to do it<\/a>, a lot more hands-on.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I would <strong>totally<\/strong> be down for a little S.C.P. action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Following up from the recent post on SurveillanceSaver, I saw that very talented writer M. John Harrison had also been playing with it. Just let me quote him: after a bit, the narrative possibilities collapse, the intensity of your gaze subsides &amp; these are just empty corners of the world again. It\u2019s a bit like hitch-hiking &amp; not getting a&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/24\/surveillancesaver-again\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[82,83,81,80],"class_list":["post-1041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-one-and-done","tag-art","tag-benevolent-surrealism","tag-spying","tag-surveillance","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-gN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}