Разное / When Maps Become the World

Название: When Maps Become the World
Автор(ы): Rasmus Gronfeldt Winther
Издательство: The University of Chicago Press
Год: 2020
Страниц: 349
Язык: English
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 21 MB

Map making and, ultimately, map thinking is ubiquitous across literature, cosmology, mathematics, psychology, and genetics. We partition, summarize, organize, and clarify our world via spatialized representations. Our maps and, more generally, our representations seduce and persuade; they build and destroy. They are the ultimate record of empires and of our evolving comprehension of our world.