The Cocouc Macron slogan inverted surveillance to make the state the one guessing

Evidence

One of the most intriguing slogans of the Gilets Jaunes over the months of chaos in France’s urban centers during the winter of 2019 was “Coucou, Macron!” (loosely translated in English as “We see you, Macron!”). The phrase is interesting because it challenges the monopoly on perception that the all-seeing eyes of capital have created through the algorithmic data centers of banks and technology companies. Here, activists simultaneously recognize and adopt the power of an omniscient supercomputer crunching algorithms under chaotic circumstances. President Emmanuel Macron was the one who had to keep guessing where his enemies were. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 333

Categorization

• XREF: The inversion of who watches whom connects to the reader’s framing of speculation as betting on volatility — the protesters force the state into the speculative position of having to guess.