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Benjamin Grant: Overview: Earth and Civilization in the Macroscope

Published: May 30, 2018, 5:24 p.m.

b'Civilization is both astonishing and astonishingly various when viewed from slightly above. Not so far above as to be lost in planetary context, but just high enough to see a fascinating thing whole, entire, intensely peculiar and informative. The glory is in the high-resolution details, in the perpetually surprising god\\u2019s-eye perspective, and in the shocking patterns that we arrange things in without even knowing it.\\n\\nRevel in a host of such images and the understanding that emerges from them with collector/curator Benjamin Grant, author of the book Overview and host of the Instagram project \\u201cDaily Overview.\\u201d'