Quinn Latimer, "Dear Drone", 2020, ORTO

"Dear Drone,

Your sound scares me. An insect-like siren more animal than technological, but then what stirs the air more than you. Even if your message is reassurance—and I’m not sure it is, even in Pauline’s film, which is the reason for my writing—the noise of your arrival, for this is how I gage your appearance, unnerves me, inevitably. I scan the sky for your technical body and, invariably finding it hovering over my own, I feel destabilized. I feel you watching me, and, not knowing whose control you serve, what arm of what state or body, I wonder who views me through you, and what of my information your vibrating body metabolizes, where this information is remanded, and so on. "

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