A history of spaces: cartographic reason, mapping, and the geo-coded world/ John Pickles.

By: Pickles, JohnMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2004Description: xxii, 233 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 0415144973 (hbk. : alk. paper); 0415144981 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): CartographyDDC classification: 526
Contents:
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.
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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.

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