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Secrecy, Security, Surveillance

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Over the course of the last hundred years-from World War I to the present-the world has assembled a massive system of state secrecy, censorship, security and surveillance. This course introduces the problem, tracking not only how the national and now...

Secrecy

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Secrecy

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Secrecy

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Peter Galison's first full-length documentary feature, co-directed with Robb Moss, was released in 2008. Watch the Film

Secrecy in Three Acts

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Secrecy: Espionage Act to Wikileaks

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Exploring the shadows

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Scholars’ documentary on government secrecy goes to Sundance

Current Projects

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Peter is currently at work on a book project, Building, Crashing, Thinking that will explore the reciprocal influences between the self and technology in the history of the twentieth century. Some of his other projects at the moment include: Surveillance...

Harvard University Film Crew Features Savannah River Site in DOE Complex Documentary

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AIKEN, S.C. — August 25, 2011 - A four-person film production crew lead by two Harvard professors are digitally capturing several major Site missions as part of a documentary on the DOE complex. They arrived Monday and concluded their production...

The lives of images

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What is observation? What is objectivity? What counts as "right depiction"? Are images today now doing more than showing? What does the future of imaging hold? Peter Galison, one of the world's leading historians of science, has written widely on how...

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Peter Galison’s work in writing and film explores the complex interaction between the three principal subcultures of physics--experimentation, instrumentation, and theory—and the embedding of physics in the wider world. In 1997, Galison was awarded a John...

The Ontology of Secrets: What Counts as Forbidden Knowledge?

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