so instead of rendering the wearer impervious

to government-sanctioned mind manipulation or any other

mental interference whatsoever—thereby allowing us to keep

out thoughts and only our thoughts to ourselves, under

our control alone, inviolable and whole—these hats in fact

are amplifying certain signals from outside, making tinfoil more

or less the unofficial headwear of state-supported confusion

Read more:

Clewell, D. (2014). What if all along we’ve been wrong about tinfoil hats. In A. Ridker (Ed.), Privacy Policy: The Anthology of Surveillance Poetics. Boston: Black Ocean.