:: Writing ::
BOOKS
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Articles and Essays
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“Blank Spots is an important, well-researched, and insightful expose that opens a window into the black world of secret operations. Paglen’s conclusion that ‘our own history, in large part, has become a state secret’ is both a warning and a call to arms. It is time to heed the warning and take up arms.”
—John Perkins, author of Confessions of an Economic Hitman
“A chillingly literal tour de force. Paglen doesn’t so much fill in the blanks as trace their outlines and give their shifting shapes a density that says as much about the future of democracy as it does about the dismal confines of the black world.”
—Derek Gregory, Professor of Geography, University of British Columbia |
Experimental Geography: From Cultural Production to the Production of Space
First published in Experimental Geography (Melville House, 2009) and the Brooklyn Rail
Frontier Photography
First Published in Art Forum, March 2009
(link to scan of article as it appears in the magazine)
Renition, Secrecy, and the Wrong Side of History
Op-ed, February 9, 2009
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I Could Tell You but Then You Would Have to Be Destroyed by Me: Emblems from the Pentagons Black World (Hardcover)
Shown here for the first time, these patches reveal a secret world of military imagery and jargon, where classified projects are known by peculiar names ("Goat Suckers," "None of Your Fucking Business," "Tastes Like Chicken") and illustrated with occult symbols and ridiculous cartoons. Although the actual projects represented here (such as the notorious Area 51) are classified, these patches-which are worn by military units working on classified missions-are precisely photographed, strangely hinting at a world about which little is known. |
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Torture Taxi: On the Trail of the CIA's Rendition Flights
In this first book to systematically investigate extraordinary rendition, an award-winning investigative journalist and a "military geographer" explore the CIA program in a series of journeys that takes them around the world. They travel to suburban Massachusetts to profile a CIA front company that supplies the agency with airplanes; to Smithfield, North Carolina, to meet pilots who fly CIA aircraft; to the San Francisco suburbs to study with a "planespotter" who tracks the CIA's movements; and to Afghanistan, where the authors visit the notorious "Salt Pit" prison and meet released Afghan detainees. |
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Experimental Geography: Radical Approaches to Landscape, Cartography, and Urbanism is edited by Nato Thompson and contains essays by Thompson, Jeffrey Kastner, and myself. The book is a visual and critical exploration of ideas about space, politics, and cultural production that Thompson and I have developed over more than a decade of conversations. |
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Violent Geographies: Fear, Terror, and Political Violence
Derek Gregory (Editor), Allan Pred (Editor) |
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