I have a complete image of the local weather, what’s coming and what’s going.  Another aspect of the overexposed technological urban, in one respect, more drizzle of military vision — GPS was created by the US Department of Defense — into the urban space.  But sometimes I remember my childhood, of wandering vast fields bordered by low hedges, and the scale of the view.  In our narrow British streets crammed with tall houses, we don’t have the view we once did.  When the wind’s the right way, we’ll smell the rain before we see it.  Sometimes it feels to me almost like technological acceleration is actually a reverse gear, and, in some perverse way, the surveilled urban gives a sense of an archaic view reclaimed.

The Fields Of The City