Things People Carry

Become More Interesting The Closer You Get

Become More Interesting The Longer You Look

Begin As Questions

Borrow Authority From Precision

Carry Hope

Change Meaning Depending On Who Holds Them

Clarify

Compress

Convert Knowledge Into Action

Convert Uncertainty Into Knowledge

Create Freedom

Create Legibility

Create Orientation

Depend On Trust

Exist Because Humans Forget

Exist To Be Interpreted

Exist To Reduce Effort

Extend Reach

Guide

Improve By Being Carried

Increase Resolution

Invite Exploration

Invite Inspection

Lend

Make A Place Legible

Make Complexity Navigable

Make Coordination Possible

Make Distance Manageable

Make Other Things Possible

Make The Future Reachable

Make The Invisible Visible

Need Context

Need Interpretation

Organize Complexity

Organize Hope

Organize Movement

Organize Uncertainty

Outlive Their Creator

Quietly Save Time

Redirect

Reduce Asymmetry

Reduce Friction

Reflect

Repay Attention

Reward Accuracy

Reward Attention

Reward Breadth

Reward Compression

Reward Curiosity

Reward Fresh Eyes

Reward Inspection

Reward Observation

Reward Preparation

Reward Reliability

Sit In A Harbor

stand in for something else

Transfer Information

Translate

woman

dad joke

collective noun

writing

cartographer

trivia

pick-up line

Germany

Australia

flat earth

tattoo

scratching

geography

Iceland

mail

post office

universe

directions

fish

ocean

perspective

bubble

Things That Look Like Other Things

smell

New Jersey

railroad

pirate

Boomer

Gen X

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

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

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

mapping as a way of bringing everything into a singular scale on which the event can be 'handled'. Cartography, pnorography, modelling and simulations allow scientist not only to have a clearer overview of the event by making it 'present at hand' id' (presentation) but also to enrol through translations, new elements that may further stabilize and strengthen the network system (representation). Mapping is a clear act of translation, of transforming an element into a connectable, recognizable, communicable object, an actant of the network. It allows actantsto 'act at a distance' (Latour, 1987:232 in van Loon 2002:50)

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

maps are an instrument of the nation-state to wage war, to assess taxes, and to exploit strategic resources.

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.

There is, for one thing, a most interesting convergence between the empirical problems studied by Lynch in terms of city space and the great Althusserian (and Lacanian) redefinition of ideology as 'the representation of the subject's Imaginary relationship to his or her Real conditions of existence'. Surely this is exactly what the cognitive map is called upon to do, in the narrower framework of daily life in the physical city: 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' (Jameson 1984:90).

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

In Pierce's non-human-centered understanding, there is no essential difference between maps and the landscapes they represent. The former is simply more mediated. In the case of a rock that looks like it's pointing, we will decide upon a referent for ourselves. Pierce was concerned not with the sign system, but with the interpretant (with the sign as understood by someone). (I don't know if this is my own or if it comes from Holquist 'Dialogism' around page 50)

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

This principle, made famous by Alfred Korzybski, strikes at many levels. It reminds us in a general way

Let us go back to the original statement for which Korzybski is most famous the statement that the map isnotthe territory. This statement came out of a very wide range of philosophic thinking, going back to Greece, and wriggling through the history of European thought over the last two thousand years. In this history, there has been a sort of rough dichotomy and often deep controversy. There has been a violent enmity and bloodshed. (Bateson 1970 : 5)

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

Men can read maps better than women. 'Cause only the male mind could conceive of one inch equalling 100 miles.

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