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“American intelligence and military agencies have a huge footprint in terms of ho…” — Trevor Paglen

American intelligence and military agencies have a huge footprint in terms of how the world works, but they're largely invisible. I'm interested in exploring those 'geographies' of secrecy from many different angles: political, legal, economic, spatial, etc., because I am fundamentally just interested in how the world works and how societies work.
Trevor Paglen
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