
Mission Creep
Mission Creep began as reworkings of the CIA''s Human Resources Exploitation Training Manual. Attempts to torture the text itself—obeying literary constraints, employing audio editing tools, and displacing it with other voices, including Hannah Arendt''s and Evel Knievel''s—reveal convoluted narratives, transmissions that contemplate whether torture provides useful information. At once a fugue and...
Mission Creep began as reworkings of the CIA''s Human Resources Exploitation Training Manual. Attempts to torture the text itself—obeying literary constraints, employing audio editing tools, and displacing it with other voices, including Hannah Arendt''s and Evel Knievel''s—reveal convoluted narratives, transmissions that contemplate whether torture provides useful information. At once a fugue and...