Foresight, Hindsight and State Secrecy in the American West
The Geopolitical Aesthetics of Trevor Paglen
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21157535 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Henrik Gustafsson (0000-0002-4495-6819, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 148-164 |
| Publication date | 2013-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Visual Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1470-4129 • E-ISSN: 1741-2994 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1470412912468711 |
| OpenAlex | W2323616630 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 8 |
This article relates the current discourse on image wars to the interdisciplinary practice of ‘experimental geography’ in the writings and photographs of Trevor Paglen. In his ongoing project to map the dark geographies of covert military activity in the American southwest, Paglen engages a dialectical method that turns the imperial apparatus of surveillance against itself. Performing his photographic campaigns as a series of interventions into the aesthetic traditions of American landscape art, Paglen solicits a critical exploration not only of the power of military technology, but also of the power of imagination
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Biopower · Covert · Dialectic · Epistemology · Futures studies · Geopolitics · Hindsight bias · Political science · Politics · Secrecy · Sociology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Philosophy · Photography and Visual Culture · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2014 - 2024 (11) |
| Highly cited | No |