Close up at a distance mapping, technology, and politics

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Kurgan, Laura
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Brooklyn, NY : Zone Books, 2013.
Edition1st hardcover ed.
Subjects
Satellite image maps.
Remote-sensing images > Political aspects.
Global Positioning System > Social aspects.
Aerial photography.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessPlný text

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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: Mapping Considered as a Problem of Theory and Practice
  • Representation and the Necessity of Interpretation
  • LEXICON
  • From Military Surveillance to the Public Sphere
  • PROJECTS
  • 1.You Are Here
  • Actually to inhabit an information system
  • 2.Kuwait: Image Mapping
  • From within the spaces of the incriminated technologies themselves
  • 3.Cape Town, South Africa, 1968: Search or Surveillance?
  • The hinterlands of the Cold War-also of interest to the Corona cameras
  • 4.Kosovo 1999: SPOT 083-264
  • The necessity of linking satellite images to the data that accompany their production
  • 5.New York, September 11, 2001
  • In a sense, I went from one mass grave to another, but not intentionally
  • 6.Around Ground Zero
  • We needed not only to make a claim for a right to look, but also to help realize it
  • 7.Monochrome Landscapes
  • My attention was then attracted by brighter colors and by other sorts of contested territories
  • 8.Global Clock
  • Nothing happened
  • 9.Million-Dollar Blocks
  • The "most phenomenal" fact of all.

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