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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 recently announced formation of an Islamic State of Iraq and the Levantine in the areas its forces occupy in Iraq and Syria as “The Islamic State” claims 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...
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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...
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...
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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 recently announced formation of an Islamic State of Iraq and the Levantine across areas its forces occupy in Iraq and Syria as “The Islamic State.” The stated aim of undoing “the partitioning of...
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Mapping the Wobbliness of the Polar Vortex
Since we use the conventions of map making to endow solidity, or reify, even the most abstract ideas, it is interesting to examine how the ‘Polar Vortex’ has spread across the mass media as both a meme...
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Weed Maps?
While the criminalization of marijuana over the past decades strove to push the stuff literally off the national map, the rethinking of the efficacy of a “war on drugs” has created a new mapping of the...
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Mapping the Proposed Balkanization of the State California
That California was long imagined and mapped as an island–and even took its name from an imagined kingdom ruled by women–suggests the deep levels at which the state long existed in ways that were...
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Mapping the Quake beneath American Canyon
The ways of mapping the effects of latest 6.1 earthquake–the largest in a quarter of a century–raise questions not only of the damages it left in its wake, or tragic human injuries, and property loss,...
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