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When Maps Become the World

Af: Rasmus Gr Winther Engelsk Paperback

When Maps Become the World

Af: Rasmus Gr Winther Engelsk Paperback
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Map making and, ultimately, map thinking is ubiquitous across literature, cosmology, mathematics, psychology, and genetics. We partition, summarize, organize, and clarify our world via spatialized representations. Our maps and, more generally, our representations seduce and persuade; they build and destroy. They are the ultimate record of empires and of our evolving comprehension of our world. This book is about the promises and perils of map thinking. Maps are purpose-driven abstractions, discarding detail to highlight only particular features of a territory. By preserving certain features at the expense of others, they can be used to reinforce a privileged position. When Maps Become the World shows us how the scientific theories, models, and concepts we use to intervene in the world function as maps, and explores the consequences of this, both good and bad. We increasingly understand the world around us in terms of models, to the extent that we often take the models for reality. Winther explains how in time, our historical representations in science, in cartography, and in our stories about ourselves replace individual memories and become dominant social narratives--they become reality, and they can remake the world.
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Map making and, ultimately, map thinking is ubiquitous across literature, cosmology, mathematics, psychology, and genetics. We partition, summarize, organize, and clarify our world via spatialized representations. Our maps and, more generally, our representations seduce and persuade; they build and destroy. They are the ultimate record of empires and of our evolving comprehension of our world. This book is about the promises and perils of map thinking. Maps are purpose-driven abstractions, discarding detail to highlight only particular features of a territory. By preserving certain features at the expense of others, they can be used to reinforce a privileged position. When Maps Become the World shows us how the scientific theories, models, and concepts we use to intervene in the world function as maps, and explores the consequences of this, both good and bad. We increasingly understand the world around us in terms of models, to the extent that we often take the models for reality. Winther explains how in time, our historical representations in science, in cartography, and in our stories about ourselves replace individual memories and become dominant social narratives--they become reality, and they can remake the world.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 336
ISBN-13: 9780226674728
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 022667472X
Kategori: Filosofi: epistemologi og vidensteori
Udg. Dato: 29 jun 2020
Længde: 21mm
Bredde: 228mm
Højde: 154mm
Forlag: The University of Chicago Press
Oplagsdato: 29 jun 2020
Forfatter(e): Rasmus Gr Winther
Forfatter(e) Rasmus Gr Winther

Kategori Filosofi: epistemologi og vidensteori

ISBN-13 9780226674728

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 336

Udgave

Længde 21mm

Bredde 228mm

Højde 154mm

Udg. Dato 29 jun 2020

Oplagsdato 29 jun 2020

Forlag The University of Chicago Press