October 02, 2018

The Limits to Mapping

October 02, 2018/ Matthew Edney

The Limits of Mapping

I gave a talk last week at Yale —

And here’s the wonderful video … can’t say the talk’s wonderful.

What is mapping? No singular and universal endeavor of cartography exists; what humans actually do is follow a myriad of mapping processes to produce, circulate, and consume maps. This lecture reconsiders the nature and limits of mapping as the creation of spatial meaning, or of meaning construed spatially.

The URL is https://youtu.be/r46RVWJ_nMA. My thanks to the Franke Program for sharing this video.

Enjoy!

Mapping as Process

Mapping as Process is a space for me to explore a new approach to understanding mapping and its history. The exploration will eventually contribute to a book of the same name.

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The books …

Comparative Map History and “the History of Cartography”: Methodologies, Institutions, and Idealizations in Brill Research Perspectives on Map History. Available from Brill in print and as an ebook ($87).

Cartography in the European Enlightenment, Volume Four of The History of Cartography, edited by myself and Mary Pedley. Available from the University of Chicago Press, in print and ebook ($500).

Available from the University of Chicago Press in paperback ($30), e-book ($10–30), or cloth ($90).

Some paperback ($38) copies are still available, as well as the ebook, from the University of Chicago Press.

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