The last pictures

Paglen, Trevor (Author). Creative Time, Inc. (Added Author).

Summary: Human 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. This book, co-published by Creative Time Books, chronicles a project intended to explain to someon.

Record details

ISBN: 9781282134614
ISBN: 1282134612
ISBN: 0520275004
ISBN: 9780520275003
ISBN: 0520954297 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9780520954298 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: 1 online resource.
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electronic resource
Publisher: Berkeley ; Los Angeles ; London : University of California Press, 2012.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	Cover; Contents; Foreword; Introduction: Geographies of Time; 1 Ancient Aliens; 2 One Hundred Pictures, Frozen in Time; "Belonging": Human/Archive/World; 3 One Hundred Pictures; Notes on the One Hundred Pictures; 4 Field Notes; 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; Credits;
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.