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When Maps Become the World
Author | : Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020-06-29 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 022666967X |
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Map making and, ultimately, map thinking is ubiquitous across literature, cosmology, mathematics, psychology, and genetics. We partition, summarize, organize, and clarify our world via spatialized representations. Our maps and, more generally, our representations seduce and persuade; they build and destroy. They are the ultimate record of empires and of our evolving comprehension of our world. This book is about the promises and perils of map thinking. Maps are purpose-driven abstractions, discarding detail to highlight only particular features of a territory. By preserving certain features at the expense of others, they can be used to reinforce a privileged position. When Maps Become the World shows us how the scientific theories, models, and concepts we use to intervene in the world function as maps, and explores the consequences of this, both good and bad. We increasingly understand the world around us in terms of models, to the extent that we often take the models for reality. Winther explains how in time, our historical representations in science, in cartography, and in our stories about ourselves replace individual memories and become dominant social narratives—they become reality, and they can remake the world.
When Maps Become the World
Author | : Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 2020-06-29 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780226674865 |
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Map making and, ultimately, map thinking is ubiquitous across literature, cosmology, mathematics, psychology, and genetics. We partition, summarize, organize, and clarify our world via spatialized representations. Our maps and, more generally, our representations seduce and persuade; they build and destroy. They are the ultimate record of empires and of our evolving comprehension of our world. This book is about the promises and perils of map thinking. Maps are purpose-driven abstractions, discarding detail to highlight only particular features of a territory. By preserving certain features at the expense of others, they can be used to reinforce a privileged position. When Maps Become the World shows us how the scientific theories, models, and concepts we use to intervene in the world function as maps, and explores the consequences of this, both good and bad. We increasingly understand the world around us in terms of models, to the extent that we often take the models for reality. Winther explains how in time, our historical representations in science, in cartography, and in our stories about ourselves replace individual memories and become dominant social narratives—they become reality, and they can remake the world.
50 Maps of the World Activity Book
Author | : Ben Handicott,Kalya Ryan |
Publsiher | : 50 States |
Total Pages | : 39 |
Release | : 2021-06-22 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780711262997 |
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50 Maps of the World Activity Book is packed with maps, wildlife, culture, history, and a huge array of activities from across the globe.
Maps
Author | : James R. Akerman,Robert W. Karrow (J.) |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Cartography |
ISBN | : UOM:39076002890023 |
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Introducing readers to a wide range of maps from different time periods and a variety of cultures, this book confirms the vital roles of maps throughout history in commerce, art, literature, and national identity.
Around the World in 80 Maps
Author | : Clare Hibbert |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 2017-09-07 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 0712356932 |
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Shifts in Mapping
Author | : Christine Schranz |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Cartography |
ISBN | : 3837660419 |
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Depicting the world, territory, and geopolitical realities involves a high degree of interpretation and imagination. It is never neutral. Cartography originated in ancient times to represent the world and to enable circulation, communication, and economic exchange. Today, IT companies are a driving force in this field and change our view of the world; how we communicate, navigate, and consume globally. Questions of privacy, authorship, and economic interests are highly relevant to cartography's practices. So how to deal with such powers and what is the critical role of cartography in it? How might a bottom-up perspective (and actions) in map-making change the conception of a geopolitical space?
Map Assembling the World in An Image
Author | : Phaidon Editors |
Publsiher | : Phaidon Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2015-09-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0714869449 |
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300 stunning maps from all periods and from all around the world, exploring and revealing what maps tell us about history and ourselves. Selected by an international panel of cartographers, academics, map dealers and collectors, the maps represent over 5,000 years of cartographic innovation drawing on a range of cultures and traditions. Comprehensive in scope, this book features all types of map from navigation and surveys to astronomical maps, satellite and digital maps, as well as works of art inspired by cartography. Unique curated sequence presents maps in thought-provoking juxtapositions for lively, stimulating reading. Features some of the most influential mapmakers and institutions in history, including Gerardus Mercator, Abraham Ortelius, Phyllis Pearson, Heinrich Berann, Bill Rankin, Ordnance Survey and Google Earth. Easy-to-use format, with large reproductions, authoritative texts and key caption information, it is the perfect introduction to the subject. Also features a comprehensive illustrated timeline of the history of cartography, biographies of leading cartographers and a glossary of cartographic terms.
Theater of the World
Author | : Thomas Reinertsen Berg |
Publsiher | : Hachette UK |
Total Pages | : 371 |
Release | : 2018-12-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780316450782 |
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A beautifully illustrated full-color history of mapmaking across centuries -- a must-read for history buffs and armchair travelers. Theater of the World offers a fascinating history of mapmaking, using the visual representation of the world through time to tell a new story about world history and the men who made it. Thomas Reinertsen Berg takes us all the way from the mysterious symbols of the Stone Age to Google Earth, exploring how the ability to envision what the world looked like developed hand in hand with worldwide exploration. Along the way, we meet visionary geographers and heroic explorers along with other unknown heroes of the map-making world, both ancient and modern. And the stunning visual material allows us to witness the extraordinary breadth of this history with our own eyes.