Black Site, Kabul, Afghanistan 2006 Courtesy of the artist, Metro Pictures, New York, Altman Siegel Gallery, San Francisco, and Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne Artist and geographer Trevor Paglen’s books include Torture Taxi (2006), I Could Tell You More But Then You Would Have to be Destroyed by Me (2007), and Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon’s Secret World (2009).
On October 8, 2013, The Straddler met with Micah Zenko in Manhattan at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he is Douglas Dillon Fellow in the Center for Preventive Action.
On September 26th, The Straddler sat down with Kazys Varnelis and Trevor Paglen at Studio X, a Columbia University facility in SoHo, for a conversation about surveillance, network culture, and secrecy.
In Paul Goodman’s 1935 short story “The Boy Scouts of Westhampton,” a fictional group of scouts eagerly looks on as a rival troop takes part in make-believe war drills.
Dean Baker, Washington, DC, 2015 Photo: Jeff Adkins On May 27th, The Straddler met with Dean Baker at his offices in Washington, D.C. Baker, a macroeconomist who is co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy, has long been a vocal critic of the patent and copyright systems.
On June 2, 2015, The Straddler met with Kazys Varnelis in Midtown Manhattan for a conversation about the history and future of suburbs and cities.
Heather Cox Richardson in conversation with The Straddler Heather Cox Richardson, Cambridge, MA, 2015 Photo: Mark Ostow On April 10, 2015, The Straddler met with Heather Cox Richardson in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Photo: E. Lombardi Vagrant is the ornithological term for a species of bird spotted well outside its normal range.
On the set of “Long Island Richard,” May, 2014 Photo: Isabel Sinistore In keeping with our commitment to sifting through fragments of Western and American culture with an eye towards advancing insights that can be put to transformative use, The Straddler has sought to emphasize performance since our founding.
“Thus the new city was formed, and a real official place upon the map, authorized to geographers.
