Trevor Paglen
Trevor Paglen's work blurs boundaries to construct unfamiliar ways to see and interpret the world around us. His interests include future warfare, state secrecy, experimental geography, anthropogeomorphology, deep-time, and cave art. He spends more time thinking about modernist painting than he...
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Trevor Paglen's work blurs boundaries to construct unfamiliar ways to see and interpret the world around us. His interests include future warfare, state secrecy, experimental geography, anthropogeomorphology, deep-time, and cave art. He spends more time thinking about modernist painting than he would like to admit. Trevor Paglen lives and works in New York.
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At just over 300 pages, Trevor Paglen's Blank Spots on the Map is downright slim for the topic at hand: the so-called "black world." This is world where classified people fly classified planes to classified locations to work on classified projects. It's a world where mysterious objects suddenly appe...
Interesting, and I appreciate the reasons behind some of the pictures. I liked the story of other artifacts, and the scientific expectations of how long they (and this) could last. Something about the picture selection was just jarring, though.
I thought this was a fascinating book. The premise is that it's a companion book to a project to create a time capsule which everyone involved freely admits will probably never be opened but if it is it will be by either humans in the distant future or aliens, but both are deemed unlikely.The book ...
This was an interesting book. Most of the patches had the kind of logos you would expect, apex predators and references to violence but some actually had cute animals (those were generally the patches for support for black ops). I still find the idea that black ops have patches somewhat problemati...
I have just catalogued this book for my library. But my brain is still in processing mode, because ... 1. I marvel again and again that there seems to be no subject too peculiar to publish a book on.2. I immediately thought of Alex and of Lila's brother in Hunting Lila?
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