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Mapping the Inequities of the Anthropocene
The current change of global climate poses peculiar difficulties of mapping by placing ourselves as viewers outside of the momentous changes they describe. For the notion of mapping the arrival of the...
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Our Globalized Maps of Ocean Temperatures
Classical Ptolemaic world maps–or the detailed terrestrial world projections that associated with Mercator and Ortelius–were based on a need to find a solution to how to transfer the curved surface of...
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Our Increasingly Uncomfortable Topographies of Incarceration
The yellowed map documents what indeed seems a foreign country: the lynchings recorded in US states and counties from 1900-1931 serves as a record of the widespread dehumanization of others in the...
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Are We There Yet? The Plane in the Map
New markets of maps are always emerging, and we seem to have our own interest in making maps for an growingly de-centered globalized world. But perhaps one of the oddest markets is for the...
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Cabstopping: Data Visualization and the Re-Mapping of Urban Space
Data visualizations often employ maps to make their point, and organize an effective argument that will engage their audience: when we see data embodied in a map, and are best engaged in its...
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The Betrayal of Sykes-Picot?
The announcement of the formation of an Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in the areas that its forces occupy in Iraq and Syria as “The Islamic State,” able to undo “the partitioning of Muslim lands...
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Crafting an Imaginary Atlas for a Dystopianly Disproportionate World
What is one to make of the silkscreen prints Hong Hao assembles from digitized versions of antiquated printed world maps? While dispensing with anything like an exact correspondence to the world, each...
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Where Is Ukraine? What is Ukraine?
Regional maps of Ukraine–and of the region of Crimea–are inevitably filled with their own narratives, most usually of the ethnic and cultural division of the region. Maps of the region’s populations...
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Windswept Lands
The ready availability of huge datasets offers multiple formats for modeling an increasingly dynamic relation to space. Indeed, the processing of remotely sensed data allows for frighteningly rapid...
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Mapping a Century of Rising Heat
The New YorkTimes The color-saturated mapping of regional changes in temperature across the contiguous United States provided a commanding visual for the front page of the New York Times of May 6 to...
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Mapping the Inequities of the Anthropocene
The current change of global climate poses peculiar difficulties of mapping by placing ourselves as viewers outside of the momentous changes they describe. For the notion of mapping the arrival of the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Our Globalized Maps of Ocean Temperatures
Classical Ptolemaic world maps–or the detailed terrestrial world projections that associated with Mercator and Ortelius–were based on a need to find a solution to how to transfer the curved surface of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Our Increasingly Uncomfortable Topographies of Incarceration
The yellowed map documents what indeed seems a foreign country: the lynchings recorded in US states and counties from 1900-1931 serves as a record of the widespread dehumanization of others in the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Are We There Yet? The Plane in the Map
New markets of maps are always emerging, and we seem to have our own interest in making maps for an growingly de-centered globalized world. But perhaps one of the oddest markets is for the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Cabstopping: Data Visualization and the Re-Mapping of Urban Space
Data visualizations often employ maps to make their point, and organize an effective argument that will engage their audience: when we see data embodied in a map, and are best engaged in its...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Betrayal of Sykes-Picot?
The announcement of the formation of an Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in the areas that its forces occupy in Iraq and Syria as “The Islamic State,” able to undo “the partitioning of Muslim lands...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Crafting an Imaginary Atlas for a Dystopianly Disproportionate World
What is one to make of the silkscreen prints Hong Hao assembles from digitized versions of antiquated printed world maps? While dispensing with anything like an exact correspondence to the world, each...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Where Is Ukraine? What is Ukraine?
Regional maps of Ukraine–and of the region of Crimea–are inevitably filled with their own narratives, most usually of the ethnic and cultural division of the region. Maps of the region’s populations...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Windswept Lands
The ready availability of huge datasets offers multiple formats for modeling an increasingly dynamic relation to space. Indeed, the processing of remotely sensed data allows for frighteningly rapid...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Mapping a Century of Rising Heat
The New YorkTimes The color-saturated mapping of regional changes in temperature across the contiguous United States provided a commanding visual for the front page of the New York Times of May 6 to...
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