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Mapping the New World from France: Savages, Vegetables, Animals, Pelts
We often have trouble recognizing cartographers in their maps. Yet traces of Samuel de Champlain’s life and New World encounters recur in the several maps of New France he designed in the two decades...
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Maps in the Air
Edward St.-Aubyn offers a moving description of the existential torture in-flight maps inflict on his hero. St.-Aubyn captures indeterminate relation we all feel as passengers suspended before the...
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Mapping What We Now Weigh
There is little comfort to be taken in the recent announcement that the United States has been overtaken as the world’s nation with the greatest number of obesely overweight citizens by Mexico. The...
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Data/Metadata
There is something disorientation about imagining a network designed to vacuum up information from the highways and byways that is been routed in 150 states, spying on pipelines in at some 700 servers...
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Attempts to Map Music
Subterranean Homesick Blues and the Velvet Underground defined a metaphoric space for Rock music to occupy from the nineteen-sixties. It’s no surprise then, that the London underground map–that icon...
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The World Map between Workshop and Laboratory
It’s not easy to detect how workshops transmitted protocols of mapping or the content of maps before authoritative practices for recording geographic knowledge Partly because of the difficulty to...
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Reading the Histomap
Not to be confused with the “historeme,” the ‘smallest unit of historiographic fact’ or narrative event in its singularity, the Histomap Rand McNally first printed in 1931 offers readers an assembly of...
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The State of Emergency in Cairo’s Streets
With an overwhelming display of strength usually reserved for clearing Palestinian settlers from villages in the Sinai or Gaza, Egyptian police forces descended at 7 a.m. on the sit-in at Nasr...
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Mapping Migrant Deaths along National Divides
Maps of collective mortality show not only the distributions of illnesses over geography, but embody the vectors of transmission by which we can understand a given disease, even before its bacillus...
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On Viewing the Flattened Past
Immediate access to images, maps, and other information makes us wax nostalgic for postal delivery on a 24-hour clock, and stamped snail mail six days of the week. Even the labor of licking and...
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The New Face of Fire Maps and the Mapping of Fires
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images To speak of “footprints of actively burning fires” in Yosemite Park not only misleads, but does disservice to the impending danger of the wildfire’s rapid spread. The...
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Targeting Sites of Attack in Syria
In the course of over two years civil war raged across Syria, the government of Bashar al-Assad stock-piled chemical weapons as a last line of security in multiple sites. The UN and President Barack...
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Mapping Commute Routes across California in Pneumatic Tubes
Before Captain James T. Kirk ordered Agent Sulu to place the engines of the USS Enterprise on warp speed to go boldly to regions of the universe no man had gone before, Isaac Asimov described Gaal...
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Mapping an Invasive Species? Eucalyptus in Berkeley, CA
The mapping of invasive species on land or sea provides one of the clearest ways of visualizing our shifting ecosphere: in mapping of the threat of invasive marine species to coastal ecosystems,...
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Mapping New Worlds on Eggshells: Adventures in the Artifice of Renaissance...
We have learned to pause as Google Maps draw boundary lines on our screen-bound maps, as streets take forms bounded by in clearcut lines across uniformly flatly-colored static blocks, data streams...
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Savoir Your Terroir
When northern California-based architectural theorist and oenophile David Gissen decided to map his adventures in wine-tasting, he cleverly shifted the metaphorical rooting of a wine’s terroir in a...
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Mapping the Expanse of our Health Care Debacle
There have been compelling suggestions that racial categories and racism are rearing their ugly heads in the debate over healthcare. It’s telling that Atul Gawande has likened the attempts of...
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Metadata-Driven Maps: Mismapping Social Networks and Unseen Populations
Tracking cellphones is not strictly speaking a practice of mapping, so much as one of surveillance or data collection. Yet as our we have become increasingly data-hungry, the increased dependence of...
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Mapping Populations in the Open Seas
Eric Carle commemorated the tragic story of the 1992 loss at sea of some 28,8oo rubber ducks from a container ship in DayGlo colors in “Ten Rubber Ducks Overboard.” But rather than encountering...
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More Better Mapping of Oakland’s Populations
Maps have long been described or conceived as windows–analogous in ways to pictorial perspective–that invite viewers to look into a space in new ways. But both word maps as the above, made of the...
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