When Olivier Schrauwen’s collected Sunday was released in 2024, it was met with a chorus of critical acclaim that almost immediately settled into a singular, repetitive comparison. Critics, overwhelmed by the book’s sheer physical mass and its minute-by-minute chronicling of a single day, reached for the most formidable totem in the Western canon:
The Panopticon on the High Street: UK Retailers to Link Facial Recognition Directly to Police Systems
In an unprecedented fusion of private surveillance and public law enforcement, United Kingdom retailers are set to deploy a "real-time" facial recognition system that automatically alerts police to the presence of suspected "serious offenders" the moment they cross a shop’s threshold. This development, spearheaded by the surveil
