GEOG 345 Lecture 15: Lecture 15 Notes
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The history of cartography as a narrative of progress (the idea that as we develop towards technicality, we somehow achieve objective truth, i. e. when we break through gis, we begin seeing that as. Map-reading as a purely technical exercise --> the idea that map- reading is considered purely technical (especially in science and mathematical disciplines) Mappings --> by denis cosgrove, he identified 4 ways in which conventional views of mapping should be interrupted. He also identified how new photo-optical technologies provided a new way to survey and transform the way we live. The introduction of new information technologies also subsequently allow new modes of data capture, combination and transmission. He also believed there are new theoretical innovations of humanity which radically transform our representation of images. He argued that none of the maps are simple representations of the world, they are instead, all about bringing into being the representation of particular circumstances --> in other words, they are all performative.
