SaCartoPresentationNotes

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shoots

  • uo concept - where (c-level / bristol)
  • faculties tour - physical ed, collab, carto, unix) - upcoming - press /

taxonomy

  • activities - wikis / lists research - parties, orgies / classes
  • actual function / decision making / laugh / pseudo academic /

roots

  • physical - lth / org/ decisions / photos
  • peer - review (twenteenth, dead reckoning) - pedagogy - tech, cube(q) -

servers - art/technician - noosphere quote - infrastructure - group work - we are the community - backspace - consume

  • theory/history - valorise other areas (q) - education in the uk - excellence


critical cartography

  • upcoming project (cc)
  • site
  • egs
  • what will happen
  • organisational structure
  • invite everyone
  • at the end if you want I can show other stuff

show OS select

  • Ordnance Survey OS Select - what it does
  • Harley - Maps / Power / Knowledge ( misunderstanding - beyala) - never moves

beyond superficial 'power' critique

  • ontology of map making - missing half of harley

show - kant map

  • kant's antimony - the negotiation of the universal view and the particular

view -

  • noisy neighbours
  • superstructure undermined by antimetaphysical critique
  • ends up with choice - God / Metaphysics or more relativism and undermining his
  • wn structures- he goes metaphysical again.

show - carto reformation maps

  • Ong - structures of 'topoi/ loci' in the mind.
  • the spatial location of concepts and ideas / the index - enlightenment

practice.

  • correlates to 18thC movements in Cartography
  • 'Cartographic Reformation - 1670-1770
  • movement of chorography / charting and topography to 'mathematical

cosmography' - move to (still) scientistic discipline.

  • same struggle as kant's antimony - drive to unify the specific and the general
  • individual and society.
  • back to harley - too enamored of his (cartographic) representational system to

wrench out the a-priori.

ANT

  • diagrams use apparently same representational tools - flattening out 4d - 2d,

but antithesis

  • not a spatially bound network (like phone / sewage, even radio).-

indeterminate space of flows)

  • not hairy 'actor' and social 'network' - but observer is actant too - actant

rhyzome ontology - non originary - much more like kant's universal standpoint

  • sounds inapplicable - but is post-structuralism applied to 'hard science'.
  • latour makes a claim for ant as more rigorous - doing what ps hypocrities

wouldn't do - no stone unturned.

  • dispenses with 'totalising' theory
  • also suggests a 'moral standard' of irreducibility
  • latour's association of ANT with cartography - as a foil, also showing that

they share tools (empiricism, rationalism).

  • shows Cartography could be a kind of spatial ontology if it removes a-priori =

harley's missing critique - with tools and methods of const. research & ethical standard (irreducibility) - usually it's what is not represented.

Show buache / deslile

Serres

  • uses disjunctures bet. disciplines to form his arguments
  • northwest passage quote
  • could be northwest passage bet. atlantic & pacific
  • or - Buache and Deslile - theoretical cartographers - cree / explorers /

topological survey/ charts etc.

  • 1750's academie royale des sciences at cusp of 'cartographic reformation' :

cook and vancouver opp - blank spaces where homogenous / scale / reliable reports were unavailable

  • Beyeala quote - shoudl be more like these guys.- pre-analytical cartography -

spatial ontology

  • how do maps work like this - operators (extreme) (rugby ball) / tag (describe

a chair)

  • quasi-objects (not as indeterminate) - sword / plate
  • quasi-object quote (quasi-leads to deterministic processes)

show - serre's table

  • mapping and mapmaking
  • map immersed & non map immersed
  • discourse function

Social universals

  • less totalising than the idea of the 'information society' or 'knowlege

economy' - where all can co-exist

  • we become subjects by taking up a position within those networks
  • locate ourselves in the centre of the OS select map - map as a quasi object
  • data body (CAE?) - still a matrix of authoritarianism

show bureau d'etudes map

Conclusion

  • This really gets us nowhere
  • find ontological missing link - not only power relations, but subjectivity

itself bound in autohritirain representation.

  • burea d'etudes map (borrow from Brian Holmes).
  • Frederic Jameson - cultural mapping.
  • ther images:
  • limehouse photo
  • evol psychogeographix maps
  • digital art visualisations (cybergeography maps)
  • psychogeography maps
  • aviation maps crashing
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