Extraordinary Rendition
“Black, a researcher, spent years gathering post-9/11 documents about the rendition process, which Clark, an artist, has supplemented with photographs. The title comes from a document in which a contractor is worrying about the potential attentions of people like Black and Clark. In the course of the book, the authors mimic what happened to the phrase extraordinary rendition by slowly making the phrase negative publicity describe the gaps left in language and geography as data is withdrawn. In language, these blanknesses are created by technocratic euphemisms, Glomar responses, and whole pages’ worth of black-block redacted words.”