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THE SITUATIONISTS
- One to One: On maps, cartography and our relationship with geographical enquiry over time stretching from ancient Babylon to GIS software. With increasingly sophisticated tools to build maps, "we have the means to comprehend the future.
"We are each at the centre of our own map... We are all innate mapmakers... maps [are the] mediators between an in... See morefrom You Are Here: A Brief Guide to the World by Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Jay Matthews added
- maps can serve as “tools for social transformation”; that they can “produce worlds instead of simply reflecting them.”
from How to Map Nothing by Shannon Mattern
Keely Adler added
- There is much disagreement between memetic tribes, but one thing they share is a penchant for constructing maps of reality, and convincing others that these maps show the world how it truly is. Often these maps become realities in themselves, and trap us in rigid, narrow ways of perceiving that keep us lost.
from Lost Ways of Knowing by Alexander Beiner
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