Trevor Paglen's Experimental Geography

* First Video: Trevor Paglen At The Colbert Report (on his book: "I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to be Destroyed by Me")

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** Second Video: Trevor Paglen's Lecture (On His Book: "Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon's Secret World")




Runtime: 59mn 37sec


Trevor Paglen is an American artist, geographer, and author.


He holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a PhD in geography from the University of California at Berkeley, where he currently works as a researcher.


Paglen is the author of three books including "Torture Taxi", (co-authored with investigative journalist A.C. Thompson) which was the first book to comprehensively describe the CIA's extraordinary rendition program , and "I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to be Destroyed by Me" (Melville House, 2007), which is a look at the world of black projects through unit patches and memorabilia created for top-secret programs.


Paglen's most recent book, "Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon's Secret World" is a broader look at secrecy in the United States.


Trevor Paglen is credited with coining the term "Experimental Geography" to describe practices coupling experimental cultural production and art-making with ideas from critical human geography about the production of space, materialism, and praxis. The 2009 book Experimental Geography: Radical Approaches to Landscape, Cartography, and Urbanism (Melville House, 2009), edited by Nato Thompson is largely inspired by Paglen's work.