Best quotes by Trevor Paglen on World

Checkout quotes by Trevor Paglen on World

• ‟ How has the sky been transformed by drones? How has the ocean been transformed by the fact that over 90% of the world's information travels in underwater cables?

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• ‟ When you look at the number of satellites, what they're doing and what they represent, it is really a vision of trying to have the world in your clutches.

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• ‟ I always start with the assumption that everything that happens in the world is actually in the world. It sounds like an obvious thing to say, but it's a very powerful methodological premise.

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• ‟ I think that a lot of us subconsciously would like to live in a world in which good things were beautiful and bad things were ugly. But that's not how the world works.

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• ‟ Once you start looking into the infrastructure, it becomes obvious very quickly that 99 percent of the world's information goes through little tubes under the ocean. Those are very juicy targets for someone who wants to surveil the world.

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• ‟ Photographs don't 'reveal' much at all but instead help us generate a kind of visual vocabulary that we can use to make sense of the world and direct our attention to certain things around us. In other words, they help us learn how to see.

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• ‟ Nothing that you make in the world exists in isolation from the social and political and ecological dimensions of it.

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• ‟ Many of the things that shape the way the world looks are, quite frankly, invisible.

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• ‟ The world is constantly changing, and I feel like my job is to try to see how it is changing.

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• ‟ Traditionally, images have functioned as representations of something in the world, but we are quickly approaching the point where vast majority of images are produced for other machines, and no human being will ever see them.

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