Description: Close Up at a Distance : Mapping, Technology, and Politics, Paperback by Kurgan, Laura, ISBN 1942130783, ISBN-13 9781942130789, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US The past two decades have seen revolutionary shifts in our ability to navigate, inhabit, and define the spatial realm. The data flows that condition much of our lives now regularly include Global Positioning System (GPS) readings and satellite images of a quality once reserved for a few militaries and intelligence agencies, and powerful geographic information system (GIS) software is now commonplace. These new technologies have raised fundamental questions about the intersection between physical space and its representation, virtual space and its realization. In Close Up at a Distance, Laura Kurgan offers a theoretical account of these new technologies of location and a series of practical experiments in making maps and images with spatial data. Neither simply useful tools nor objects of wonder or anxiety, the technologies of GPS, GIS, and satellite imagery become, in this book, the subject and the medium of a critical exploration. Close Up at a Distance records situations of intense conflict and struggle, on the one hand, and fundamental transformations in our ways of seeing and of experiencing space, on the other. Kurgan maps and theorizes mass graves, incarceration patterns, disappearing forests, and currency flows in a series of cases that range from Kuwait (1991) to Kosovo (1999), New York (2001) to Indonesia (2010). Using spatial hardware and software designed for military and governmental use in reconnaissance, secrecy, monitoring, ballistics, the census, and national security, Kurgan engages and confronts the politics and complexities of these technologies and their uses. At the intersection of art, architecture, activism, and geography, she uncovers, in her essays and projects, the opacities inherent in the recording of information and data and reimagines the spaces they have opened up.
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Book Title: Close Up at a Distance : Mapping, Technology, and Politics
Number of Pages: 232 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Zone Books
Publication Year: 2022
Topic: General, Remote Sensing & Geographic Information Systems, Sociology / Urban
Item Height: 0.7 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Technology & Engineering, Social Science
Item Weight: 17.2 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Laura Kurgan
Item Width: 7.3 in
Format: Trade Paperback
