On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 05:36:48PM -0700, Annalee Newitz wrote: > >Buckminster Fuller's patented Dymaxion Map of the Earth comes to mind as > >does his promotion of Spaceship Earth.
This article by Brian Holmes joined some of the dots for me years ago, in terms of the more critical theory wanking / locative media "wrong trousers" version of geowanking: "Cartography of excess" http://www.metamute.com/look/article.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPublication=1&NrIssue=24&NrSection=5&NrArticle=830&ST_max=0 Lots of people point to de Certeau - "place is a practised space" (or is it the other way round? ;) ) - and make knowing allusions to Habermas on the public sphere, localising and re-spatialising a place of civic engagement. The work of David Harvey has affected a lot of people working on collective mapping / social purpose threads. Personally i was massively influenced in what i made or tried to make with geospatial tech by the works and thoughts of Wilfried Hou Je Bek - http://www.socialfiction.org/gettags.php?tagski=psychogeography - who inherits from the Situationist International, Guy Debord's hand-drawn psychogeographic maps of derives, etc... http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/2.derive.htm http://locative.net/tcmreader/index.php?intro;russell <- the "trans cultural mapping reader" is worth chasing up a copy of, if this line of thinking is at all fun for you; it gets into depth on some of this. http://cholmes.wordpress.com/2006/01/04/location-matters/ is a nice writeup of the head-opening effect of the 'headmap manifesto' and a sense of where geowanking 'wants to be'... hth, hand, wank wank :) jo _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
