A Cartographic turn

Author

Additional Author(s)

• Levy, Jacques

Publisher

Switzerland: EPFL Press, 2015

Language

English

ISBN

9780415729130

Series

Subject(s)

• CARTOGRAPHY

Notes

. Bibliography: p. 336.

Abstract

"'The Cartographic Turn' contains contributions on maps and cartography from multiple authors from various disciplines: geography, demography, cartography, art theory, architecture and philosophy. While such diversity could imply that this book is a collection of independent contributions gathered only by their topic, this impression would be misleading. Rather, this book develops four simple propositions that actually can be streamlined into a single concept expressed through four different perspectives. Above all, maps convey rational, aesthetic, ethical and personal messages, at times separately but more often in unison, and this mix offers ample fields for studying social complexity. Beyond that, maps are, by their very existence, both representations of pre-existing spaces and creations of new spaces. Consequently, the historical or anthropological analysis of maps as semantic objects should be connected to the production of new maps, namely those that take advantage of the powerful tools provided by digital technology. Finally, the issues of contemporary mapping should be read in light of recent innovations within social sciences on space. Before this cartographic turn, technicians, historians, users and exegetes were distinct and decidedly turned away from each other. The era of the singular engineer-designed map is past. Maps have gained many new actors, and these actors are critical thinkers. This book would modestly like to contribute to a durable association between mapping and reflexivity. Cartographers, historians of cartography, geographers, visual scientists and artists, social scientists as well as advanced students in these disciplines will appreciate and benefit from reading 'The Cartographic Turn'"--Provided by publisher.

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

336 p.

Dimension

25 cm.

Other Desc.

ill.

Summary / Review / Table of Content

Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 MAP AS RESOURCE --
ch. 1 When Maps Reflect / Christian Jacob --
The Map: a complex object --
From the Muses to a citizen's discourse --
The map as a Euclidean calculation machine --
When maps invite a step back --
The user's viewpoint --
ch. 2 Maps in Perspective What can philosophy learn from experimental maps in contemporary art? / Patrice Maniglier --
Mapping/Thinking --
Perspective as a case-model: how figurative arts contribute to speculative philosophy --
Comparing maps and perspective --
Digital media and cinematic maps --
Contemporary art experiments with cinematic maps --
References --
ch. 3 The Cartographic Dimension of Contemporary Art / Marie-Ange Brayer --
Marking and measuring --
A lost fragment --
The map as pictorial field --
Territorial rhetoric --
The territory-map --
Negative maps --
Trip-maps --
The dismantled grid --
ch. 4 "What the Atlas Does to the Map / Veronique Mauron. Note continued: An approach: unsolvable problems, improbable solutions --
Cognitive elsewheres: appropriating otherness --
Plates of the atlas: setting up maps --
Experiments --
Itinerary: an aesthetic of passage --
Grid: the quadrature of the circle solved --
Following the trail --
Appendix 1 Worksheet on several works by Helene Gerster --
Appendix 2 The Corpus of the Cosmographies Project (by geographic area and chronological order) --
pt. 2 MAP AS LANGUAGE --
ch. 5 Space for Reason / Jacques Levy --
Classifying languages: being and time --
Different times (of communication), different customs (of discourse) --
Social reasoning exposed at the risk of image --
ch. 6 Cartographic Semiosis: Reality as Representation / Emanuela Casti --
Society and cartography --
Studying the map-object --
The deconstruction of maps --
A semiotic study of maps: the hermeneutical approach --
Maps and the territorialisation process --
The map as a locus of semiosis. Note continued: The cartographic icon --
Systems of communication: analog and digital --
The self-referential world of cartography --
Iconisation --
Society, cartography, and geographical sciences --
References --
ch. 7 Doing the Right Map? Cognitive and/or Ethical Choices / Elsa Chavinier --
Two Switzerlands --
The French government's war on the city --
The `Jewish people': between myth and history --
References --
pt. 3 WHERE ARE WE ON THE MAP? --
ch. 8 Mapping Ethics / Jacques Levy --
What ethics changes --
The ethical turn and cartography: cognitive significance --
From agency to environment, and vice versa --
Cartographers as actors among other actors --
Inhabiting maps --
References --
ch. 9 A Reappraisal of the Ecological Fallacy / Herve Le Bras --
The 2012 French presidential election --
The young, the old, the clerks, the workers --
Urban vs. rural areas --
Anthropological and historical differences --
Family and inheritance rules --
Dormant behaviours. Note continued: ch. 10 Mapping Otherness / Emanuela Casti --
Cartography and social equity --
Spatial concepts and the nature/culture debate --
Legal levels of governance --
Changing course: toward chorographic metrics --
Chorographic metrics: spatialisation and symbolisation --
The sacredness of landscape and environmental conflicts at the Gobnangou Cliffs --
References --
ch. 11 Mapping the Global Mobile Space The Nomadic Space as Sample / Denis Retaille --
Mapping the spaces of nomadic peoples --
Space with time --
Mapping mobile space --
Bibliography --
pt. 4 WHO IS THE AUTHOR OF THIS MAP? --
ch. 12 `My' Maps? On Maps and their Authors / Patrick Poncet --
What makes a map --
Euclidean irreducibility and non-cartography --
Local reading, visual objects, cartographic totality --
Differences in mapping --
Information and communication --
Cartographer, Author, Layman --
Data, spaces, and spatialities --
Instrument, object, and media --
Encoding, tongues and language. Note continued: Cartography, `mapdesign', and `carto' --
Making a difference --
The limits of Bertin's cartography and the logic of image --
Three cartographic freedoms --
Semiological proposition: the map in only four expressive dimensions --
Easier than people think --
References --
ch. 13 Lost in Transduction: From Digital Footprints to Urbanity / Boris Beaude --
Exploiting digital footprints --
Digital footprints --
The spatiality of digital traces --
Research in the field --
From digital footprints to urbanity --
Urbanity --
Digital footprints do not speak for themselves --
Transduction --
References --
ch. 14 Augmented Reality and the Place of Dreams / Andre Ourednik --
The emergence of augmented reality --
Augmented reality as a sociotechnical rhizome --
Human actors --
Overcoming spatial exclusiveness --
The struggle for reality to overcome the limits of space --
Implementation and examples of uses: aesthetics as a political process. Note continued: Bodies and algorithms: points of view beyond the traditional map --
What `reality' exactly is being augmented? An ontological stopover on the way to an augmented space --
Neither reality, nor space is given --
References.

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