Blank Spots on the Map

Informationen zum Autor Trevor Paglen, Ph.D., has published numerous research papers in academic journals and his writing has appeared in The Village Voice and The San Francisco Bay Guardian . He is the author of I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to Be Destroyed by Me and Torture Taxi . He is also an internationally recognized artist who exhibits frequently in major galleries and museums around the world. He lives in Berkeley, California. Klappentext Welcome to a top-level clearance world that doesn't exist...Now with updated material for the paperback edition. This is the adventurous, insightful, and often chilling story of a road trip through a shadow nation of state secrets, clandestine military bases, black sites, hidden laboratories, and top-secret agencies that make up what insiders call the "black world." Here, geographer and provocateur Trevor Paglen knocks on the doors of CIA prisons, stakes out a covert air base in Nevada from a mountaintop 30 miles away, dissects the Defense Department's multibillion dollar "black" budget, and interviews those who live on the edges of these blank spots. Whether Paglen reports from a hotel room in Vegas, a secret prison in Kabul, or a trailer in Shoshone Indian territory, he is impassioned, rigorous, relentless-and delivers eye-opening details. Leseprobe Table of Contents Title Page Copyright Page Chapter 1 - Facts on the Ground Chapter 2 - A Guy in the Classified World Chapter 3 - Unexplored Territory Chapter 4 - Wastelands Chapter 5 - Classified Résumés Chapter 6 - Fiat Lux Chapter 7 - The Other Night Sky Chapter 8 - The Observer Effect Chapter 9 - Blank Spots in the Law Chapter 10 - The Precedent Chapter 11 - Money Behind Mirrored Walls Chapter 12 - Nonfunding the Black World Chapter 13 - Plains of Death Chapter 14 - Anything You Need Anywhere Chapter 15 - Bobs Chapter 16 - Screaming Their Heads Off Epilogue NOTES Acknowledgements INDEX DUTTON Published by Penguin Group (USA) Inc. 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, U.S.A. Penguin Group (Canada), 90 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 700, Toronto, Ontario M4P 2Y3, Canada (a division of Pearson Penguin Canada Inc.); Penguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England; Penguin Ireland, 25 St Stephen's Green, Dublin 2, Ireland (a division of Penguin Books Ltd); Penguin Group (Australia), 250 Camberwell Road, Camberwell, Victoria 3124, Australia (a division of Pearson Australia Group Pty Ltd); Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd, 11 Community Centre, Panchsheel Park, New Delhi - 110 017, India; Penguin Group (NZ), 67 Apollo Drive, Rosedale, North Shore 0632, New Zealand (a division of Pearson New Zealand Ltd); Penguin Books (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd, 24 Sturdee Avenue, Rosebank, Johannesburg 2196, South Africa Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England Published by Dutton, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. First printing, February 2009 Copyright © 2009 by Trevor Paglen All rights reserved Map on pages viii-ix created by Darin Jensen. Photo on page 7: courtesy of the USGS; page 80: courtesy of the Department of Energy; page 152: courtesy of the USAF; page 168: courtesy of National Parks Service; page 186: courtesy of the Library of Congress. All other photos courtesy of the author. REGISTERED TRADEMARKMARCA REGISTRADA LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA Paglen, Trevor. Blank spots on the map: the dark geography of the Pentagon's secret world / Trevor Paglen. p. cm. eISBN : 978-1-101-01149-2 1. Military basesUnited States. 2. Intelligence serviceUnited States. 3. Defen...

Klappentext

Welcome to a top-level clearance world that doesn't exist...Now with updated material for the paperback edition.

This is the adventurous, insightful, and often chilling story of a road trip through a shadow nation of state secrets, clandestine military bases, black sites, hidden laboratories, and top-secret agencies that make up what insiders call the "black world."

Here, geographer and provocateur Trevor Paglen knocks on the doors of CIA prisons, stakes out a covert air base in Nevada from a mountaintop 30 miles away, dissects the Defense Department's multibillion dollar "black" budget, and interviews those who live on the edges of these blank spots.

Whether Paglen reports from a hotel room in Vegas, a secret prison in Kabul, or a trailer in Shoshone Indian territory, he is impassioned, rigorous, relentless-and delivers eye-opening details.

Zusammenfassung
Welcome to a top-level clearance world that doesn't exist...Now with updated material for the paperback edition.

This is the adventurous, insightful, and often chilling story of a road trip through a shadow nation of state secrets, clandestine military bases, black sites, hidden laboratories, and top-secret agencies that make up what insiders call the "black world."

Here, geographer and provocateur Trevor Paglen knocks on the doors of CIA prisons, stakes out a covert air base in Nevada from a mountaintop 30 miles away, dissects the Defense Department's multibillion dollar "black" budget, and interviews those who live on the edges of these blank spots.

Whether Paglen reports from a hotel room in Vegas, a secret prison in Kabul, or a trailer in Shoshone Indian territory, he is impassioned, rigorous, relentless-and delivers eye-opening details.

Leseprobe

Table of Contents

 

Title Page

Copyright Page

 

Chapter 1 - Facts on the Ground

Chapter 2 - A Guy in the Classified World

Chapter 3 - Unexplored Territory

Chapter 4 - Wastelands

Chapter 5 - Classified Résumés

Chapter 6 - Fiat Lux

Chapter 7 - The Other Night Sky

Chapter 8 - The Observer Effect

Chapter 9 - Blank Spots in the Law

Chapter 10 - The Precedent

Chapter 11 - Money Behind Mirrored Walls

Chapter 12 - Nonfunding the Black World

Chapter 13 - Plains of Death

Chapter 14 - Anything You Need Anywhere

Chapter 15 - Bobs

Chapter 16 - Screaming Their Heads Off

 

Epilogue

NOTES

Acknowledgements

INDEX

DUTTON
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Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England 

Published by Dutton, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.  

First printing, February 2009

 

Copyright © 2009 by Trevor Paglen All rights reserved

Map on pages viii-ix created by Darin Jensen. Photo on page 7: courtesy of the USGS; page 80: courtesy of the Department of Energy; page 152: courtesy of the USAF; page 168: courtesy of National Parks Service; page 186: courtesy of the Library of Congress. All other photos courtesy of the author.

REGISTERED TRADEMARK—MARCA REGISTRADA

 

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA 

Paglen, Trevor.
Blank spots on the map: the dark geography of the Pentagon’s secret world / Trevor Paglen.
p. cm. eISBN : 978-1-101-01149-2

1. Military bases—United States. 2. Intelligence service—United States. 3. Defense information,
   Classified—United States. 4. Military bases,…