So you think about something
like the Malaysia MH370,
the vanished airplane.
You know, in a way...
the fact that this is so surprising,
that this is so uncanny,
is a kind of exception,
in a way, that proves the rule.
There are still loads of questions
surrounding MH370.
How can a jet of that size,
world-class technology,
go missing, when a tiny device
like an iPhone
can be located with an app?
The idea that something
like a commercial airliner
could just vanish off
of the surface of the planet
that we have so thoroughly mapped
at such a granular level
that it's not just one panoptic regime,
it's multiple panoptic regimes
all one on top of another,
that you can hide something like this,
or that something could vanish,
is so...
bizarre in 2015.
But...
20 years ago, 30 years ago,
something like that,
you know, you could hide...
you could hide an entire country,
and no one would sort of
think that much of it,
let alone an airplane.
But, you know, I think
the fact that there's also sort of...
apophenia, the political apophenia,
not just "Where does it go?"
but "What caused this?"
