Look Out

The Delight and Danger of Taking the Long View

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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Look Out is an investigation of long-distance mapping, aerial photography, and top-down perspectives—from pre–Civil War America to our vexed modern times of drone warfare, hyper-surveillance at home and abroad, and quarantine and protest. Blending history, reporting, personal experience, and accounts of activists, programmers, spies, architects, artists, and entrepreneurs, Edward McPherson reveals that to see is to control—and the stakes are high for everyone.The aerial view—a position known in Greek as the catascopos, or “the looker-down”—is a fundamentally privileged perspective, inaccessible to those left on the ground. To the earthbound, (in)sights from such rarified heights convey power and authority. McPherson casts light on our fetishization of distance as a path to truth and considers the awe and apocalypse of taking the long view.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-10-21
Mått152 x 229 x 27 mm
Vikt460 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor288
FörlagAstra Publishing House
ISBN9781662602955

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"Look Out is a gift in what it demands from a reader which is, quite simply, attention. In form, in approach, and in topic, the book is rich, hyperfocused, and overwhelming in its generosity. To read this is like having a tour guide through a life you did not know you could experience."-Hanif Abdurraqib, author of There's Always This Year "High flying and impressively grounded . . . An exhilarating and urgent reckoning with human perspective."-Walter Johnson, author of The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States