Hitching Stealth with Trevor Paglen

This is a shameless plug, but I have a feeling many of Urban Cartography's readers will enjoy it. The article I am about to present expands upon the work of an artist/geographer at Berkeley who, broadly speaking, looks for connections between urban power headquarters and exurban patches of land. His work mainly deals with the production of military and prison landscapes, without overlooking the urban spaces where negotiations to produce these landscapes are held. This is our latest feature at Archinect and Bryan Finoki takes us for a ride with the outlaw geographer to the wild stealth frontier.

Comments

[gaela]

Brilliant! I especially loved his work on the "Prison Reclamation Project."

[sarah]

Seems like Paglen is getting more attention lately. Deservedly so, I think.

He had a show at The Lab here in San Francisco, which I enjoyed quite a bit and reviewed on my own site, Forward Retreat. In case you haven't seen it, the Bay Guardian's A.C. Thompson also did a great article on Paglen around that time, called "Spying on the Government."

Great site--keep up the fine work.

Links:

The Lab: http://www.thelab.org

Forward Retreat review: http://www.forwardretreat.com/archives/2005/05/index.html#000183

Guardian review: http://www.sfbg.com/39/31/cover_spying_on_the_government.html

[javier]

thanks sarah! I will pass on that info to Bryan Finoki.