One Nation Under Tesco
Reading this excellent, and quite exhaustive, analysis of the British zustände I came across this wonderful observation:
In August, in the Pembury Estate in Hackney, one person climbed the lamppost to disconnect the CCTV cameras. After clambering up, he found himself without the right tools to do the job. In a moment reflecting Banksy’s ‘Salute to the Tesco shopping bag’ daubed on Essex Road, the young rioter puts a Tesco bag over the camera. One nation watched over by machines of loving grace, and plastic bags. The security camera was obscured by the shroud of consumerism. For a few nights, the desire for proletarian shopping outmanoeuvred the collection of data. Two machines of the social factory came into conflict with each other.
