Astro Noise: A Survival Guide for Living Under Total Surveillance [Laura Poitras]

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Astro Noise: A Survival Guide for Living Under Total Surveillance

Laura Poitras

Whitney Museum of American Art, NY. 2016. New in slipcase. 

From the publisher:

"For this volume, Poitras has invited authors ranging from artists and novelists to technologists and academics to respond to the modern-day state of mass surveillance. Among them are the acclaimed author Dave Eggers, the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, the former Guantanamo Bay detainee Lakhdar Boumediene, the writer and researcher Kate Crawford, and Edward Snowden, to name but a few. Some contributors worked directly with Poitras and the archive of documents leaked by Snowden; others contributed fictional reinterpretations of spycraft. The result is a “how-to” guide for living in a society that collects extraordinary amounts of information on individuals. Questioning the role of surveillance and advocating for collective privacy are central tennets for Poitras, who has long engaged with and supported free-software technologists."

A brilliant, fully realized work. Essential for all of us given the machinations of global capital. Don't get caught slipping. This lovely edition comes in a nice slipcase so you can hide it from the feds.