Journal | JoLMA
Journal issue | 5 | 1 | 2024
The Art of Mapping Between Land and Mind
open access | peer reviewed-
edited by
- Francesco Ragazzi - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia; Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France - email
In the creation of maps, scientific knowledge related to mathematics and physics combines with knowledge specific to graphic or artistic disciplines. Since all maps are artifacts whose aesthetic qualities convey information that simultaneously engages the fields of ontology, epistemology, and politics, they are objects of undeniable interest for philosophical inquiry. Following what has been termed “the cartographic turn in social sciences”, The Art of Mapping Between Land and Mind delves into two intertwining issues. On one side, it examines how the aesthetic properties of maps convey cognitive, cultural, and political meanings. On the other, it explores the role of visual arts in reflecting on cartographic thought, shaping both its methods and motivations. The volume is divided into four sections. Embracing the point of view of both the philosopher and the geographer, the first one sheds light on the relationship between epistemology and cartography (Kukla; Costantini; Tanney). The second addresses mapmaking as an art form (Tanca; Haugdal) or, conversely, considers maps from the perspective of their aesthetic properties (Török; Ogundiwin; Elhaik). The third focuses on the digital condition of today’s cartography (Tschochohei; Quaranta; Keller). Finally, the last section includes two contributions that represent attempts to guide cartography toward its future (Bosca; Ianniello). Opening this issue, a special essay by Elizabeth Povinelli offers a generous précis of her upcoming book.
Keywords Immanuel Kant • Topographic mapping • Philosophy • Vertical perspective • Italian colonial cartography • Category-mistake • Art • Systematic ambiguity • Drone photography • Recording • Representational Risk • Symbolic Representation • Michel Serres • Sea • Geographic ontology • Conceptual cartography • Counter-mapping • Geontopower • Marine ecology • Mapping processes • Fluidity • Spatiality • Epistemic Risk • Physical Geography • Ryle • Contemporary art • Sound • System • Iconology • Symbol • Cetaceans • Geography • Libyan Desert • Ecology • Machine gaze • Logic • Monsters • Strait • Race • Conceptual analysis • Cartography • Mind • Climate-change • Digital • Map • Aesthetics in Science • Cartographic Styles • Ocean • Settler Colonialism • Palimpsest • Sámi Art • Mapping • Yorùbáland • Walter Benjamin • Hyperobjects • Semiotics • Blank spot • Nelson Goodman • Territory • Maps • Worlding • Transcendental illusion • Indigenous cartography • Eco-dystopia • Epistemology • Geographic Information Systems • Digitalisation • Clouds • Surveillance technologies • Allegory • Hans Ragnar Mathisen • Biston betularia carbonaria • Scopic regime
Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/Jolma/2723-9640/2024/01 | Published July 26, 2024 | Language en
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