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Reading the World as It Is Worn on One’s Shoulders
The government prohibition in the Republic of the Union of Myanmar against procuring tattoos of maps of the country that were placed below the waist suggests an unlikely overlap between mapped...
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Mapping Ebola’s Recent Spread–while Barely Containing Our Widespread Fears
The Ebola outbreak was no doubt encouraged by their increasingly urbanized and interconnected populations, especially among the high levels of poor who live in dense slums, but also from the dependence...
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National Waters, Legal Fictions, and Rivers of Fertilizer
Mapping lands from the point of view of the waters seems extremely important in an era when the precious commodity is increasingly threatened by over-use, poor management, and drought. What constitute...
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Mapping the New Enemy
The map of airstrikes by American planes and guided missiles as a single, stark situation map of sites hit that was issued by the US Department of Defense offers justification for expanding strikes...
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Ebola and our Nation
As the fears that Ebola virus will mutate into an airborne disease have begun commingle with questions of national safety, a dire health emergency located largely in West Africa has mutated into a...
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1.2 Million Lego Pieces Map Imprisonment Worldwide
The Chinese artist Ai Weiwei took the opportunity for an installation at Alcatraz island, in the buildings of a former federal prison known for its isolation of prisoners for over thirty years and the...
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Mapping Feline Itineraries
Among crowd-sourced mapping projects, Cat Tracker is something of an innovation: rather than map a human environment, it is dedicated to mapping the motions of specific outdoor cats–their individual,...
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Pumpkin Patches
Pumpkin production is difficult to map onto the celebration of Halloween. For the celebration of All Hallow’s Eve has morphed into a feat of mass-marketing and commercial sales from haunted houses to...
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The Gas-Tax Latitudinal Divide: Viewing After-Images of Southern Secession...
National maps often register the different collective experiences with which nations have wrestled in the modern era. Even as we celebrate infographics as snapshots of national politics, looking at...
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The Gas-Tax Latitudinal Divide: Viewing After-Images of Secession across the...
We often look at older maps as sites of nostalgia. But one cannot imagine that infographics will ever age well. Despite being overwhelmed and sated by the post-election profusion of electoral maps...
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The State of Surveillance, CA
The ACLU has explored the expansion of crude techniques used by the FBI in mapping American Communities–in a sort of darker side of the illuminating geography of data amassed in the US Census’ American...
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The New Separatism and the Gas-Tax Latitudinal Divide: Afterimages of...
Mapping the nation gained wide currency as a way of performing national identity with the rise of the readily printed maps. Outfits such as the U.S. Election Map Co. that were founded in the mid to...
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Tracing a Shadow Transit System: Subaltern Cartographies?
With Manhattan long ago out pricing many who might have lived there in the past, even as New York City’s Mass Transit Authority does good duty as a serviceable means to secure transportation across the...
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KXL
Although the Senate failed to pass the bill to authorize construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, the fight was intensely waged before a map. Politically isolated, Landrieu stood before a map which...
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What We Really Want to Eat?
Shortly after New York Times produced an elegant pictorial map of Thanksgiving recipes in each state, to emphasize the varied bounties of our national cuisine, the Upshot opted to rethink how to map...
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Alternative Metrics of America’s Divided Economies #1
Data visualizations employ multiple metrics to divide the nation, and do so for varied explanatory effect. We have become so used to how they divide the nation into groups that we are almost...
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A Newly Divided City? Ranked Choice Voting, Private Security, and Urban...
Ranked Choice Voting provides an interesting manner of refracting the voice of the electorate, by inviting citizens to select three or four top candidates. But in an economically divide city, the basis...
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Available Metrics of America’s Divided Economies #2
The ballyhooed shift of the economy from the industrial to the technological and financial sectors seems like it conceals the deep shift in the geography of the working male: while the anthropocentric...
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Arctic Circles
Why do current remapping of claims to minerals and oil in the Arctic and North Pole eerily remind us of the game board of 'Risk!'? Is the not-so-frozen north the sight of a new Cold War? The remapping...
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How to Get Lost?
The disappearance of AirAsia flight 8501 in the South China Seas, leaving no trace after its progress had been tracked for roughly an hour and forty-five minutes after it took off, poses problems of...
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