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@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Lesson III of Hito Steyerl's [*How Not to be Seen: A Fucking Didactic Educationa |
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There is so much in this passage. It brings to mind the practices of camouflage and masking developed by [protestors](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/26/technology/hong-kong-protests-facial-recognition-surveillance.html) in Hong Kong, in an attempt to thwart facial-recognition systems embedded throughout the city; but also Zach Blas' [*Face Cages*](https://zachblas.info/works/face-cages/), which both obscure the face and encase it. Such is the logic of all masks, of course. Blas just makes the point particularly clearly. Under conditions of ubiquitous computer vision, anonymity comes at a cost. |
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The ambivalent politics of (in)visibility are made even starker in Forensic Architecture's work on Western drone strikes in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia, and Gaza. |
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The ambivalent politics of (in)visibility are made even starker in [Forensic Architecture's](https://forensic-architecture.org/) work on Western drone strikes in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia, and Gaza. |
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>"The pixel resolution of contemporary, publically available satellite images is not only a product of optics, data storage, or bandwidth capacity, but of legal regulations that bear upon political and even geopolitical rationales. Throughout the height of the drone campaign and for the entire duration of our investigation, the resolution at which satellite images were made publically available was legally kept at 0.5 meters per pixel [ie about a foot]. The reason for halting the process of improving the resolution of publically available satellite images was that at 0.5 meters, the pixel resolution corresponds to the dimensions of the human body - an area 0.5 meters by 0.5 meters is roughly the size of the human body as seen from above." [^Forensic] |
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