{"title":"No Place Press","description":"\u003cp\u003eExplore the intriguing publications from No Place Press, delving into psychogeography, local history, and the hidden stories within familiar landscapes. Perfect for urban explorers and curious minds.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"glen-park-library-book-pamela-m-lee-9781949484021","title":"The Glen Park Library","description":"\u003cb\u003eHow Silicon Valley, the dark net, and digital culture have affected our relationship to knowledge, history, language, aesthetics, reading,andtruth.\u003c\/b\u003eIn October 2013, twenty-nine-year-old Ross William Ulbricht was arrested at the Glen Park Public Branch Library in San Francisco, accused of being the \"Dread Pirate Roberts\" and mastermind of a dark net drug marketplace known as Silk Road. 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The persistence and specificity of the request for this nail inspired the international art collective Futurefarmers to create, by hand (and after more than a half-century delay), three nails for the theoretical physicist: one forged from a meteorite, one cast using 1943 steel pennies, and a third made by re-fusing Trinitite, a material formed by residue from the Trinity nuclear bomb test.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrowing out of a site-specific contribution to an exhibition in Santa Fe, New Mexico, this book engages the region's complex nuclear history as it relates to land use, resource extraction, and the far-reaching decisions that were made within the Manhattan Project. Throughout this multidisciplinary project, Futurefarmers constructs a narrative that runs parallel, and in some cases counter to, the conventional accounts of the Manhattan Project and Oppenheimer, its chief architect. 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