A History Of Spaces Provides An Essential Insight Into The Practices And Ideas Of Maps And Map-making. It Draws On A Wide Range Of Social Theorists And Theorists Of Maps And Cartography To Show How Maps And Map-making Have Shaped The Spaces In Which We Live. The Book Begins By Asking A Seemingly Simple Question: What Does It Mean To Draw A Line? It Then Gives A Seemingly Simple Answer: To Create A Boundary, To Define A Space, And To Shape An Identity. The Book Builds On This Foundation By Exploring How, Historically, Maps Have Reached Deep Into Social Imaginaries To Code The Modern World. Going Beyond The Focus Of Traditional Cartography, The Book Draws On Examples Of The Use Of Maps From The Sixteenth Century To The Present, Including Their Role In Projects Of The National And Colonial State, Emergent Capitalism And The Planetary Consciousness Of The Natural Sciences. It Also Considers The Use Of Maps For Military Purposes, Maps That Have Coded Modern Conceptions Of Health, Disease And Social Character, And Maps Of The Transparent Human Body And The Transparent Earth. The Final Chapters Of The Book Turn To The Rapid Pace Of Change In Mapping Technologies, The Forms Of Visualization And Representation That Are Now Possible, And What The Author Refers To As 'the Possibilities For Post-representational Cartographies'.--jacket. Maps And Worlds -- Deconstructing The Map -- What Do Maps Represent? The Crisis Of Representation And The Critique Of Cartographic Reason -- Situated Pragmatics: Maps And Apping As Social Practice -- The Over-coded World: A Genealogy Of Modern Mapping -- The Cartographic Gaze, Global Visions, And Modalities Of Visual Culture -- Cadasters And Capitalisms: The Emergence Of A New Map Consciousness -- Mapping The Geo-body: State, Territory, And Nation -- Commodity And Control: Technologies Of The Social Body -- Investing Bodies In Depth -- Cyber-empires And New Cultural Politics Of Digital Spaces -- Counter-mappings: Cartographic Reason In The Age Of Intelligent Machines And Smart Bombs. John Pickles. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [202]-223) And Index.
Categories:
- Science & Math
- Earth Sciences
- Geography
- Earth Sciences
Publisher : Routledge
Author : Pickles, John
Language : English
Edition : 1
Published :2003-10-09
Number Of Pages : 256
Binding : paperback
ISBN-10 : 0415144981
ISBN-13 : 9780415144988
Item weight : 0.97 lb
Dimensions : 0.55 in x 6.14 in x 8.66 in
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