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A history of spaces : cartographic reason, mapping, and the geo-coded world /

"A History of Spaces provides an essential insight into the practices and ideas of maps and map-making. It draws on a wide range of social theorists and theorists of maps and cartography to show how maps and map-making have shaped the spaces in which we live."

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pickles, John, 1952-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Maps and worlds
  • Deconstructing the map
  • What do maps represent? The crisis of representation and the critique of cartographic reason
  • Situated pragmatics: maps and apping as Social Practice
  • The over-coded world: a genealogy of modern mapping
  • The cartographic gaze, global visions, and modalities of visual culture
  • Cadasters and capitalisms: the emergence of a new map consciousness
  • Mapping the geo-body: state, territory, and nation
  • Commodity and control: technologies of the social body
  • Investing bodies in depth
  • Cyber-empires and new cultural politics of digital spaces
  • Counter-mappings: cartographic reason in the age of intelligent machines and smart bombs.