Look Out – The Delight and Danger of Taking the Long View

Look Out – The Delight and Danger of Taking the Long View

General:

Name: Look Out – The Delight and Danger of Taking the Long View
Format: epub
Size: 5.03 MB

Book:

Title: Look Out
Author: Edward McPherson
Language: English
Year: 2025
Subjects: History, Sociology, Technology, Nonfiction
Publisher: Astra Publishing House
ISBN: 9781662602955
Total pages: N/A

Description:

"A charming, idiosyncratic meditation on the human urge to see further, and more, in this cultural history of the ‘aerial view’ . . . McPherson makes an elliptical and enchanting case for reinserting wherever possible the ground-level, human perspective . . . Redolent with insights into the ethical quandary of history-making, as well as the author’s own sense of awe at the full sweep of the human story, this is a wonder."
–Publishers Weekly, starred review
As if Borges and Didion took a tour with Sebald through the beauty and terror of our present and past, Look Out is a profound and prismatic investigation of taking the long view.

Look Out is an exploration of long-distance mapping, aerial photography, and top-down and far-ranging perspectives-from pre-Civil War America to our vexed modern times of drone warfare, hyper-surveillance at home and abroad, and quarantine and protest. Blending history, reporting, personal…

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