Reif Larsen - I Am Radar

I traveled a lot to discover the invented places in this book and was offered much guidance along the way. In New Jersey, I’d like to thank Stuart Engelke, Bob Janney, Jim Wright, Lilo Stainton, Tony Dee, and Gary Hanson. In Norway, gratitude goes to Solgunn Solli, Stine Qvistad Jenvin, Karin Johnsen, and Silje Bekeng. In Serbia, I was welcomed like a long lost relation. Thanks Darko Radulovic, Jasna Novakov Sibinovic, Vlada Bajac, Igor Cvi, and the entire Geopoetika team. In Cambodia, Tararith Kho, Proeung Pranit, and Sreang Heng took me to the borderlands. At CERN, Ariane Koek, Rolf Landau, Barbara Warmbein, Joe Incandela, and Katie Yurkewicz all put up with my ridiculous questions. In the Congo, Horeb Bulambo, Pascal Bashombana, and Stewart Lunanga showed me the best and worst that humanity has to offer. And thanks to others for arranging and advising: Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt, Elyse Lightman, Harlan Lane, Matthew Cohen, Avery Gilbert, Bert van Der Hove, and Bryan Mealer.

Some of this book was written in the rare territory of the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Study, where I was the writer-in-residence. Thanks to the wonderful people I met there: Nadège Lechevrel, Ianthi-Maria Tsimpli, Louise Mars, Jos Hooghuis, Kahliya Ronde, Saskia Peels, Joy Connolly, and, in particular, the crazy Balkanians, Mitja Velikonja and Dino Abazovic, who offered me such valuable insight and invited me to be an honorary member of their clan.

And a huge thank you to the multitude of readers that took the time to read this project in some ragged form and offer me their invaluable advice. Without all of you, I would still be lost at sea: Alena Graedon, Mike Lukas, Ian Cheney, Marijeta Bozovic, Konrad Ryushin Marchaj, Meehan Crist, Elliott Holt, Rains Paden, Niek Miedema, Manfred Allié, Dagfinn Møller, Nadja Bruner, Jordan Alport, Sarah Fornace, Hannah Pascal, Harrison Holt, Henry Rich, Akira Yamaguchi, and Maria Cristina Rueda, who also did such a beautiful job bringing the images into focus.

Finally, I would like to give a standing ovation for my endlessly supportive parents, Peik and Judith — you taught me how to be human and are the main reason why I write these words. Thank you, Jasper, for putting up with your tiresome, artsy family.

And thank you most of all to Katie and Holt, who form the rest of my solar system. You supply the gravity that keeps me on this planet.

Gassho.

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