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black site en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. A location at which an unacknowledged black operation or black project is conducted.
    • Noting the dearth of serious research on black sites, Paglen endeavored to produce a book that would reveal “how the United States has become dependent on spaces created through secrecy, spaces that lie outside the rule of law, outside the Constitution, outside the democratic ideal of equal rights, transparent government, and informed consent.” 2020, Asbjørn Skarsvåg Grønstad, quoting Trevor Paglen, Rethinking Art and Visual Culture: The Poetics of Opacity, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 136:

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blacksite alternative lexicographic
black sites Number=Plur lexicographic

Relateds

black ops · black jail