LoveStar (ubiquitous surveillance)

Brief description

"Butterflies" and "plague-flies" film everything, from the inside of Sigrid and Indridi's apartment to horrific accidents and crimes. This is mentioned several times in the novel. For instance, after he has manipulated Sigrid into leaving Indridi to be calculated, Simon checks his phone and sees a list of "links to plague-flies", which are links to live video broadcast from 

Pull Quotes

No personal messages, mostly junk mail and links to plague flies: 10:15 murder in use police not notified yet corpse here pursue the murderer relevant Butterly here. 10:18 train crash in Pakistan rescue workers not yet arrived not yet in news horrific view here (p. 200)

Work that the situation appears in

Title Publication Type Year Creator
LoveStar: A Novel Narrative, Novel Andri Snær Magnason
Who does what?
This character
Machine P.O.V
Not machine P.O.V.

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