map, n.All

The Map is a proposition. It presents spatial information in a specific way for a specific purpose.

The Map is not the territory, and the name is not the thing named.

The Map is not the territory.

Mapping is older than writing

A Map men can read better than women, because only the male mind could conceive of one inch equalling 100 miles.

The Map is called upon to enable a situational representation on the part of the individual subject to that vaster and properly unrepresentable totality which is the ensemble of the city's structure as a whole.

The Map is an instrument of the nation-state to wage war, to assess taxes, and to exploit strategic resources.

The Map is essentially no different from the landscape it represents. The former is simply more mediated.

The Map is a way of flattening, transforming elements into connections that they otherwise do not have in order that some event might be 'handled'.