History of Spaces Cartographic Reason, Mapping and the Geo-Coded World

Name: History of Spaces Cartographic Reason, Mapping and the Geo-Coded World
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ISBN: 9780415144988

ISBN-10: 0415144981

ISBN-13: 9780415144988

Edition: 2004

Authors: John Pickles

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This book provides an essential reading of the practices and ideas of mapping and mapmaking. It draws on a wide range of social theorists, and theorists of maps and cartography, to explore the many ways in which cartographic reason has coded our world.

Book details

List price: $89.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 10/9/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.13" long x 0.47" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English




Introduction



Maps and Worlds



Deconstructing the Map



What Do Maps Represent? The Crisis of Representation and the Critique of Cartographic Reason



Situated pragmatics: Maps and Mapping as Social Practice



The Over-Coded World: A Genealogy of Modern Mapping



The Cartographic Gaze, Global Visions, and Modalities of Visual Culture



Cadasters and Capitalism: 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: Cartographic Reason and the Technological Sublime in a Digital Age



Conclusion



Counter-Mappings: Cartographic Reason in the Age of Intelligent Machines and Smart Bombs