Reading What’s Left, one learns that during his exploration of Utrecht, Dave Hullfish Bailey saw a link between certain aspects of the city and a vastly different place: Slab City, California, which I have to admit I’d never heard of before. But this strange, valuable anthology yields an answer, classifying Slab City as an “Adapted Camp” and chronicling what I discovered to be a distressing utopian trajectory, leading through the adaptation and appropriation of ill-timed constructions. The camp — whether a campsite, tent city, detention center, or base — is, in its temporary nature, one of the first places to emerge in the story of humankind, but also a very topical one that keeps pace with many of the trends that inform contemporary culture, movement, globalization, exploration, conflict and migration. And as if this were not interesting and important enough — and it is — it helped me out with Hullfish Bailey.