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The New Authoritarianism? Trumpism, Tampons, and the Nation
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...
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The Growth of the Offshore in a Globalized Economy: Being Offshore of a...
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...
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Mapping the Pastness of Rome’s Past
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...
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The Many Other Flints Out There
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...
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A Rapidly Disappearing West
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...
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Drones and the Distributed Geography of “Homeland”
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...
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An Overlit World
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...
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The Imagined and Actual Geography of Brexit: Topologies of Diversity
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...
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Anthrax, Globalism and Climate Change
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...
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The Arid Region of the United States and its Afterlife
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...
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Hostil Homelands
"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...
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Bombed Out Landscapes
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...
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Finding Aleppo
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...
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Fear of NAFTA
“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...
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The New Jungle
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,...
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Where Do I Go?
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...
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We Think Our Shores Are Stable, But They Are Not
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...
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Mapping the New Isolationism: America First?
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...
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NORAD Maps the Flight of Santa’s Sleigh
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...
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Mapping Trump
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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