Digital surveillance programs require concrete data centres; intelligence agencies are based in real buildings. Surveillance systems ultimately consist of technologies, people, and… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
Seeing various aspects of the secret state and surveillance state echoes a long tradition in art of looking at the sublime. — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
What would the infrastructure of the Internet look like if mass surveillance wasn't its business model? — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
Although the organizing logic of our nation's surveillance apparatus is invisibility and secrecy, its operations occupy the physical world. — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
I want to help develop a visual and cultural vocabulary around surveillance. — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
The Internet was supposed to be the greatest tool of global communications and means of sharing knowledge in human history. And it… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
I think mass surveillance is a bad idea because a surveillance society is one in which people understand that they are constantly… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
I believe that art can make relevant and progressive contributions to culture and society. — Trevor Paglen Copy Share
Photography has become so fundamental to the way we see that 'photography' and 'seeing' are becoming more and more synonymous. The ubiquity of photography… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share
I'm pretty cynical about the future, but I feel like that's not an ethical position for me to take. It's not okay for me… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share
Civilian law around aviation is much looser than those governing military. Civilian planes can basically fly wherever they want in the world. — Trevor Paglen Copy Share
I think the automation of vision is a much bigger deal than the invention of perspective. — Trevor Paglen Copy Share
Many of the things that shape the way the world looks are, quite frankly, invisible. — Trevor Paglen Copy Share
Geosynchronous spacecraft will be among civilization's most enduring remnants, quietly circling Earth until the Earth is no more. — Trevor Paglen Copy Share
Traditionally, images have functioned as representations of something in the world, but we are quickly approaching the point where vast majority of images are… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share
Images can make realities out of people and struggles - the reality we give them. Images really matter. — Trevor Paglen Copy Share
It's productive and fun to try interpreting cave paintings, but ultimately, they can't teach us anything beyond what we imagine them to be. — Trevor Paglen Copy Share
Before Christianity became the Roman Empire's official religion in the 4th Century, 'mystery religions,' organized around a central canon of secret knowledge, were widespread.… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share
When we look up into the starry night sky, we tend to see reflections of ourselves. — Trevor Paglen Copy Share
“The CIA, an agency designed to operate outside the law, was now free to pursue its vision of a new world, to create new… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share
Once, I got lost in the middle of the desert and had to follow the North Star to find the dirt road where my… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share
