03852nam 2200589 a 450 991045276520332120200520144314.01-282-13461-297866138071990-520-95429-710.1525/9780520954298(CKB)2550000000105912(EBL)977771(OCoLC)806049446(SSID)ssj0000738101(PQKBManifestationID)12299071(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000738101(PQKBWorkID)10789474(PQKB)11163185(MiAaPQ)EBC977771(DE-B1597)518917(DE-B1597)9780520954298(Au-PeEL)EBL977771(CaPaEBR)ebr10582906(CaONFJC)MIL380719(EXLCZ)99255000000010591220120501d2012 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe last pictures[electronic resource] /Trevor PaglenNew York Creative Time Books Berkeley University of California Press20121 online resource (209 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-520-27500-4 Includes bibliographical references.Front matter --CONTENTS --Foreword --Introduction: Geographies of Time --1. Ancient Aliens --2. One Hundred Pictures, Frozen in Time --3. One Hundred Pictures --The Artifact Cover Etching --Talking Mathematics to Aliens? (Get Real! . . . or Have Fun with Anthropomorphism 101!) --Putting a Time Capsule in Orbit: What Should It Be Made Of? --The EchoStar XVI Mission --Epilogue --Acknowledgments --CreditsHuman civilizations' longest lasting artifacts are not the great Pyramids of Giza, nor the cave paintings at Lascaux, but the communications satellites that circle our planet. In a stationary orbit above the equator, the satellites that broadcast our TV signals, route our phone calls, and process our credit card transactions experience no atmospheric drag. Their inert hulls will continue to drift around Earth until the Sun expands into a red giant and engulfs them about 4.5 billion years from now. The Last Pictures, co-published by Creative Time Books, is rooted in the premise that these communications satellites will ultimately become the cultural and material ruins of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, far outlasting anything else humans have created. Inspired in part by ancient cave paintings, nuclear waste warning signs, and Carl Sagan's Golden Records of the 1970's, artist/geographer Trevor Paglen has developed a collection of one hundred images that will be etched onto an ultra-archival, golden silicon disc. The disc, commissioned by Creative Time, will then be sent into orbit onboard the Echostar XVI satellite in September 2012, as both a time capsule and a message to the future. The selection of 100 images, which are the centerpiece of the book, was influenced by four years of interviews with leading scientists, philosophers, anthropologists, and artists about the contradictions that characterize contemporary civilizations. Consequently, The Last Pictures engages some of the most profound questions of the human experience, provoking discourse about communication, deep time, and the economic, environmental, and social uncertainties that define our historical moment. Copub: Creative Time BooksInterstellar communicationElectronic books.Interstellar communication.709.2Paglen Trevor1036206MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910452765203321The last pictures2456401UNINA02219nam 2200553Ia 450 991070054530332120120425145041.0(CKB)5470000002410545(OCoLC)789278331(EXLCZ)99547000000241054520120425d2002 ua 0engurbn|||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierOffender's views of reentry[electronic resource] implications for processes, programs, and services /Faye S. Taxman, Douglas Young and James ByrneCollege Park, MD :University of Maryland, College Park, Bureau of Governmental Research ;[Washington, D.C.]:[U.S. Dept. of Justice],[2002]1 online resource (32 pages)Title from PDF title screen (viewed Mar. 6, 2012)."March 26, 2002.""Date received: August 20, 2002"--Grant transmittal doc."Document no.: 196490"--Grant transmittal doc."Award Number: 2000-IJ-CX-0045"--Grant transmittal doc.Includes bibliographical references (pages 31-32).Offender's views of reentry CriminalsRehabilitationUnited StatesEx-convictsServices forUnited StatesCommunity service (Punishment)United StatesOffenses against public safetyUnited StatesPrisonersEducationUnited StatesCorrectionsUnited StatesCriminalsRehabilitationEx-convictsServices forCommunity service (Punishment)Offenses against public safetyPrisonersEducationCorrectionsTaxman Faye S1210702Young Douglas188282Byrne James M(James Michael),1954-1393084University of Maryland, College Park.Bureau of Governmental Research.United States.Department of Justice.GPOGPOBOOK9910700545303321Offender's views of reentry3448749UNINA