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Else/where: Mapping New Cartographies of Networks and Territories
About: This article is published in Visible Language.The article was published on 2007-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 73 citations till now.
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21 Apr 2011
TL;DR: Corner as mentioned in this paper explores four ways in which new practices of mapping are emerging in contemporary design and planning, which he terms as: "drift", "layering", "game-board" and "rhizome".
Abstract: Corner’swritingevokes theemancipatorypotential ofmapping, at a time when it was much more usual to demonise it as a form of elite discourse, facilitating governance by the powerful. Corner draws instead on the creative potential of themedium, deploying the figures of Gille Deleuze and F elix Guattari to demonstrate the constructive agency that can be enacted through cartographic practice in the fields of architecture, landscape and urban planning.He explores fourways inwhichnewpractices ofmapping are emerging in contemporary design and planning, which he terms as: ‘drift’, ‘layering’, ‘game-board’ and ‘rhizome’. Corner concludes thatmapping is not endless data accumulationbut is rather better seen as a practice of relational reasoning that intelligently unfolds new realities out of existing constraints.
329 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the ways in which mapping is performative, participatory and political, and suggest that cartography be understood as existence (becoming) rather than essence (fixed ontology).
Abstract: This report examines the ways in which mapping is performative, participatory and political. Performativity has received increasing attention from scholars, and cartography is no exception. Interest has shifted from the map as object to mapping as practice. Performativity is a cultural, social and political activity; maps as protest and commentary. The internet both facilitates and shapes popular political activism, but scholars have been slow to grasp amateur political mappings, although analysis of political deployments of mapping in state, territorial and imperial projects remains rich. Finally, some authors suggest that cartography be understood as existence (becoming) rather than essence (fixed ontology).
181 citations
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...…adequately reference it here, but some recent key texts include An atlas of radical cartography (Mogul and Bhagat, 2007), the Else/where collection (Abrams and Hall, 2006), philosopher Edward Casey’s latest book (Casey, 2005), Katherine Harmon’s popular book You are here (Harmon, 2004), artist…...
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...Nevertheless it is still pretty unusual to have academics producing comic books! There is too much map art to adequately reference it here, but some recent key texts include An atlas of radical cartography (Mogul and Bhagat, 2007), the Else/where collection (Abrams and Hall, 2006), philosopher Edward Casey’s latest book (Casey, 2005), Katherine Harmon’s popular book You are here (Harmon, 2004), artist kanarinka’s writings (kanarinka, 2006a; 2006b; 2009), and the book accompanying the Newberry’s Library’s exhibit for the Chicago Festival of Maps held in 2007–2008 (Akerman and Karrow, 2007; for a report on the festival, see Jones, 2008)....
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue for the importance of mapping as a multisensory research method in terms of its ability to evoke relationships between place, lived experience, and community.
Abstract: This article argues for the importance of mapping as a multisensory research method in terms of its ability to evoke relationships between place, lived experience, and community. Based on an interd...
144 citations
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...…cross disciplinary boundaries of art, creative writing, geography, and cartography as they link with larger social, cultural, and political issues (e.g., Abrams & Hall, 2006; Gordon, 2007; Harmon, 2004, 2009; Thompson & Independent Curators International, 2009), thus creating new forms and uses....
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider the dialectic of place and narrative and demonstrate how this dialectic can be encoded in cartographic language, and propose a technique for uncovering place, using narrativity.
Abstract: One of the themes of critical cartography is the question of how to map space as it is experienced. The conventions of Western cartographic language—the visual variables and their grammar—are structured to communicate spaces of homogeneity and modernity, not the spaces shaped by human experience. How then can we map place? I review some of the ways in which mapmakers have addressed this question in their visual and written works and propose another technique for uncovering place, using narrativity. Through the example of a historical map project, I consider the dialectic of place and narrative and demonstrate how this dialectic can be encoded in cartographic language.
114 citations
TL;DR: This article draws upon a research collaboration with the news division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation to understand how Canadian political parties increasingly worked to strategically intervene, in real time on Twitter, during a broadcast political debate.
Abstract: This paper questions how vertical tickers on leading social media platforms (blogs, Facebook, and in particular the Twitter micro-blogging platform) pose new challenges to research that focuses on political communications campaigns. Vertical looped tickers highlight the fleeting nature of contemporary networked and socially mediated communications, since they provide an intensely compressed space (interface) and time to have posts viewed by friends and followers. This article draws upon a research collaboration with the news division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) to understand how Canadian political parties increasingly worked to strategically intervene, in real time on Twitter, during a broadcast political debate.
96 citations
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...Moving forward, live research needs to distinguish itself as a research project from certain strands of information design – projects that seek to creatively visualize complex datasets and flows in the search for intuitive iconography and dynamic flux (Abrams and Hall, 2006)....
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21 Apr 2011
TL;DR: Corner as mentioned in this paper explores four ways in which new practices of mapping are emerging in contemporary design and planning, which he terms as: "drift", "layering", "game-board" and "rhizome".
Abstract: Corner’swritingevokes theemancipatorypotential ofmapping, at a time when it was much more usual to demonise it as a form of elite discourse, facilitating governance by the powerful. Corner draws instead on the creative potential of themedium, deploying the figures of Gille Deleuze and F elix Guattari to demonstrate the constructive agency that can be enacted through cartographic practice in the fields of architecture, landscape and urban planning.He explores fourways inwhichnewpractices ofmapping are emerging in contemporary design and planning, which he terms as: ‘drift’, ‘layering’, ‘game-board’ and ‘rhizome’. Corner concludes thatmapping is not endless data accumulationbut is rather better seen as a practice of relational reasoning that intelligently unfolds new realities out of existing constraints.
329 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the ways in which mapping is performative, participatory and political, and suggest that cartography be understood as existence (becoming) rather than essence (fixed ontology).
Abstract: This report examines the ways in which mapping is performative, participatory and political. Performativity has received increasing attention from scholars, and cartography is no exception. Interest has shifted from the map as object to mapping as practice. Performativity is a cultural, social and political activity; maps as protest and commentary. The internet both facilitates and shapes popular political activism, but scholars have been slow to grasp amateur political mappings, although analysis of political deployments of mapping in state, territorial and imperial projects remains rich. Finally, some authors suggest that cartography be understood as existence (becoming) rather than essence (fixed ontology).
181 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue for the importance of mapping as a multisensory research method in terms of its ability to evoke relationships between place, lived experience, and community.
Abstract: This article argues for the importance of mapping as a multisensory research method in terms of its ability to evoke relationships between place, lived experience, and community. Based on an interd...
144 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider the dialectic of place and narrative and demonstrate how this dialectic can be encoded in cartographic language, and propose a technique for uncovering place, using narrativity.
Abstract: One of the themes of critical cartography is the question of how to map space as it is experienced. The conventions of Western cartographic language—the visual variables and their grammar—are structured to communicate spaces of homogeneity and modernity, not the spaces shaped by human experience. How then can we map place? I review some of the ways in which mapmakers have addressed this question in their visual and written works and propose another technique for uncovering place, using narrativity. Through the example of a historical map project, I consider the dialectic of place and narrative and demonstrate how this dialectic can be encoded in cartographic language.
114 citations
TL;DR: This article draws upon a research collaboration with the news division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation to understand how Canadian political parties increasingly worked to strategically intervene, in real time on Twitter, during a broadcast political debate.
Abstract: This paper questions how vertical tickers on leading social media platforms (blogs, Facebook, and in particular the Twitter micro-blogging platform) pose new challenges to research that focuses on political communications campaigns. Vertical looped tickers highlight the fleeting nature of contemporary networked and socially mediated communications, since they provide an intensely compressed space (interface) and time to have posts viewed by friends and followers. This article draws upon a research collaboration with the news division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) to understand how Canadian political parties increasingly worked to strategically intervene, in real time on Twitter, during a broadcast political debate.
96 citations