Reverse engineering forensically extracts, inspects, improves or contests 'design blueprints' embedded in manmade systems. Cryptome reverse-engineers the technics and codes hardwired into panoptical information and communications technologies as a way of examining their diagrams of power. This 'revolt against the gaze' is our tactic in the Eyeball Series when flipping the technology of national security vision back onto itself through reversals of geospatial imagery. Or reversing top-down geopolitical maps through countercartographies that favor micro-historical method. It's also Crytome's general approach to the everyday, incremental construction of a public domain library around the inchoate classification of so-called banned documents.
Deborah Natsios + John Young in Nicholas Korody, “The Whistleblower Architects,” 2016
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Scogin Elam Bray, House Chmar, Atlanta, GA, 1989 (via archidose)
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National Park Service, Sound Map of Natural Conditions of the United States, 2016 (via watershedplus)
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George W. Parker, “Radiant Point for the August Meteors” in Elements of Astronomy, 1911 (via nemfrog)
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He analyzed more than thirty-five thousand peer-reviewed papers, mapping the precise location of co-authors. Then he assessed the quality of the research by counting the number of subsequent citations…Once the data was amassed, the correlation became clear: when coauthors were closer together, their papers tended to be of significantly higher quality. The best research was consistently produced when scientists were working within ten metres of each other; the least cited papers tended to emerge from collaborators who were a kilometre or more apart.
Jonah Lehrer on Isaac Kohane, “Researcher Proximity and Quality,” c. 2013
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Gauthier Durey, Landscape Urbanism Interpretive Mapping, 2015 (via drawarch)
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