An early tour of Vincent's job site -- a place of surreptitious smoking, haphazard work discipline and small-scale industrial accidents -- is like an old slapstick two-reeler played at adagio speed.
The proliferating number of blogs, user-generated content services and online news sources has created a dense information jungle that no human could machete his or her way through in a lifetime, let alone in an afternoon of surreptitious procrastination at work.
Some are sanctioned, others surreptitious, like the works of the rebels who tamper with street lights to create their own messages, or those of the people who hang provocative signs over billboards without permission.
Much of this fatigue may result from the steady, surreptitious accumulation of shadow work in modern life.
Mingling the more surreptitious activities with the work of traditional public affairs would undermine the Pentagon's credibility with the media, the public and governments around the world, critics argue.
They had seen at first hand the prewar struggles of European filmmakers to speak out against evil in their films, and felt that the new American crime films could represent the opportunity for a surreptitious continuation of that work within unashamedly entertainment films.
It's a work of surreptitious surveillance — a camera or cell phone sits on a table, far from the candidate, who is seen not as the magnified figurehead and coiffed performer of video-ops but as a guy in the room.
Since word got out, however, a debate over the ethics of Choinière's surreptitious infiltration of another artist's work has been raging.
In particular, we question the work done when individual or even surreptitious texts are appropriated – or marketed – within formal narratives of inclusiveness, reverence and homogeneous nationalism.
"We're here Rob, but supposed to be working at our desks, so this is surreptitious," says Peter Mills.
