TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kurgan,Laura
TI  - Close up at a distance: mapping, technology, and politics 
SN  - 9781935408284
AV  - G70.4 .K87 2013
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Brooklyn, NY
PB  - Zone Books
KW  - Satellite image maps
KW  - Remote-sensing images
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Global positioning system
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Aerial photography
N1  - 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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