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The New Authoritarianism? Trumpism, Tampons, and the Nation

February 11, 2016, 11:56 am
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The growing margins of victory by which Donald Trump won the Republican nomination for President of the United States created an increasingly awkward air of inevitability.  But the arrival of the tweet–and what better form for it to arrive from Reince Preibus … Continue reading →
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The Growth of the Offshore in a Globalized Economy: Being Offshore of a Globalized World

February 16, 2016, 9:48 am
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The sense of land that lay offshore was a fascination of the isolari of the medieval world which rapidly expanded long ago during the age of Atlantic discoveries.  If we long considered islands outside of the regions of broadest settlement an emblem … Continue reading →
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Mapping the Pastness of Rome’s Past

April 20, 2016, 3:36 pm
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We now map mega-regions which extend beyond the older boundaries of urban entities, and which lack clear bounds, to reflect the actual experience of environments, whose realities are more networks than sites:  built environment encompasses the commute routes most  experience daily, distended networks of paved space. … Continue reading →
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The Many Other Flints Out There

April 30, 2016, 1:37 pm
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Maps are increasingly needed to translate unweildly abstractions to terms we can more eaily comprehend–from global warming to mass extinction.  As well as orient us to space, they allow us to comprehend the big data uncertainties of climate change in graphic terms.  Differences … Continue reading →
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A Rapidly Disappearing West

May 22, 2016, 6:54 pm
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The increasing fragmentation of wildlife and habitat with the expansion of development in the American West is rewriting what was once viewed as virgin land.  How to map the progress of such changes over time is difficult, but the multiple … Continue reading →
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Drones and the Distributed Geography of “Homeland”

June 9, 2016, 11:23 pm
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When Michel Foucault argued that “the anxiety of our era has fundamentally to do with place” in 1967, he did so long before the so-called “War on Terror.”  The events of the “War on Terror” has fundamentally changed our ideas of the stability of … Continue reading →
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An Overlit World

June 18, 2016, 12:26 pm
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As celebrations of summer solstice approach, the longest day of the year is marked by the convergence of druids, pagans, and other celebrants in the ceremonial stone circle of prehistoric Stonehenge to witness sunrise through the monumental stone trilithons, whose placement … Continue reading →
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The Imagined and Actual Geography of Brexit: Topologies of Diversity

June 28, 2016, 11:26 pm
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Crossing to Calais on the Eurostar, I looked out the window for migrant camps who had been so central to the Brexit campaign.  None were in evidence from the train window.  But when our train stopped for unforeseen difficulties due to people … Continue reading →
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Anthrax, Globalism and Climate Change

August 4, 2016, 11:57 am
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The discovery of cases of anthrax in Siberia that have emerged from the melting permafrost of the Yamal tundra to kill at least 1,500 unsuspecting reindeer seems to conflate recent worries about dirty bombs of bioterrorism and the consequences of global warming.  Climate change … Continue reading →
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The Arid Region of the United States and its Afterlife

September 1, 2016, 8:29 am
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The “Arid Region” of the United States historically begins at the 100º meridian–the “eastern edge of the Great American Desert” where insurance companies and other lending agencies would “not, as a matter of agreed policy, lend a shiny dime.”  In the … Continue reading →
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Hostil Homelands

September 2, 2016, 5:33 pm
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"The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries," argued A.B. Yehoshua, the Israeli novelist. If lines distinguish "us" and "them" both insulate "us" and do more than cognitive work in assigning a fixed other place to "them," the tacit redrawing of maps about occupied territories on West Bank dangerously create possible future of the Jewish presence in Palestine. Continue reading →
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Bombed Out Landscapes

September 7, 2016, 9:53 am
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Some five hundred and seventeen V-2 rockets exploded in London during the German blitz of the city at the end of World War II from September, 1944, dropped in quick succession by some three hundred airplanes and killing upwards of 2,500 … Continue reading →
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Finding Aleppo

September 28, 2016, 2:40 pm
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What is Aleppo?  In rejoined to Gary Johnson, we might do better to ask where the bombed out city increasing mapped, even as it seems to be disappearing from the world, lies.  Any theater of war is extremely difficult to map … Continue reading →
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Fear of NAFTA

October 20, 2016, 11:46 am
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“Our jobs are being sucked out of our economy by the deal her husband signed,”  Donald Trump raged about bad trade deals during the third Presidential debate, as if to lay them at the feet of Hillary Clinton.  The figure of speech signified … Continue reading →
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The New Jungle

November 1, 2016, 1:12 pm
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It is pretty hard to imagine anything as scary as the intentional clearing of The Jungle near the French port of Calais.  The dismantling by local police of improvised structures of lean-to’s, corrugated metal, stretched plastic tarpaulins, wooden structures, and improvised … Continue reading →
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Where Do I Go?

November 11, 2016, 1:11 pm
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It’s difficult to take full stock of the diminished role of the globe in daily life, and the tactile experience it offered in creating a relation to place.  In an era when we regularly stitch together georectified satellite images of … Continue reading →
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We Think Our Shores Are Stable, But They Are Not

November 25, 2016, 9:55 am
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While maps were once seen as sources of state authority, maps that track climate offer critical tools to examine changes across, around, and about conceptions of territory and indeed what we once called jurisdictional sovereignty.  For web-based maps of climate, … Continue reading →
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Mapping the New Isolationism: America First?

December 5, 2016, 12:46 pm
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The recent American election seems to mark the entrance into a new world which antiquates earlier forms of reference, and which global politics seem about to be reconfigured in ways that transcend national bounds.  A vintage Rand McNally map that claims … Continue reading →
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NORAD Maps the Flight of Santa’s Sleigh

December 25, 2016, 9:27 am
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One rarely ties maps as entertaining as the NORAD Santa Map to power–especially when they are accompanied in their online versions are accompanied by cheery Christmas pop.  The apparent frivolity of tracking Santa removes them from the domain we associate with the military, and straight into an … Continue reading →
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Mapping Trump

January 25, 2017, 12:54 pm
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Despite claiming to represent much of the country--and desiring to assert a major electoral victory--how much of the country does Trump know or can he claim to represent? Continue reading →
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