They said surveillance was needed to monitor "domestic extremists" – a term that has no legal basis but is defined by police as activists who are determined to break the law to further their political aims.
The texture isn't reducible to a single musical thought, a "theme" or a "melody", but is defined rather by a network of interrelated musical lines churning away at the same time.
Aridity is not a matter of precipitation alone but is defined by the relationship between the precipitation input to the soil in which the plants grow and the evaporative losses.
'One develops a strange parallel existence that is not to do with oneself but is defined by some journalists,' he says,when I broach the subject of his famous antipathy towards interviews, 'In my case, I'm supposed to be this - how does it go exactly?
Toop discusses the work of film composer Toru Takemitsu, the "background free oscillations of the Earth", and the idea of silence itself: a condition that never really exists but is defined by the quality of the sounds that make it impossible.
And that is the greatest threat to the campers: that their political relevance is defined not by a meaningful encounter that challenges both the political mainstream and a wider community, effecting change, but is defined, as it increasingly appears to be, by the act of protest itself.
