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On 10/23/2010 5:06 AM, Vladimiro Valerio wrote:
I wanted just to point out,
in a vivid manner, that the
question from the technical
point of view has nothing
else to say and I wanted to
suggest a new line of
research: manipulation of
masses, and social psychology.
As someone who is not all that "learned" (and not even a map person!
;-) I just wanted to say that I found Vladimiro's passionate post
fascinating.
Alas, I don't know beans about projection issues, so am happy enough
to just follow along with anything that appears to question the
colonialist legacy ... or that challenges the establishment visual
culture with which I am (again, unthinkingly) most familiar.
At any rate, I have a thumbnail of the Peters Projection map posted to
http://www.she-philosopher.com/ib/topics/antipodist.html
(see the last 3 entries in the right-hand sidebar), with accompanying
link to a sales page for it at a favorite (left-leaning) activist
group: the Syracuse Cultural Workers, whose organizational motto is:
"No matter what our attempts to inform, it is our ability to
inspire that will turn the tides."
FWIW, Syracuse Cultural Workers also sells the Hobo-Dyer Equal Area
Map and the Upside Down World Map (for which, see additional links at
the bottom of my Web page sidebar).
The brief descriptions I give there of the 3 maps all come from the
SCW catalog, and reflect the very sociocultural biases Vladimiro
admonishes....
I suppose all this means that I'm going to have to update these
sidebar captions one of these days.... ;(
... But there's no time for psychoanalyzing myself right now!
I'm not supposed to be doing anything at the moment other than getting
3 websites ready to launch by the end of this month ... to which tasks
I had best return forthwith! <bg>
In haste,
Deborah
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