JoLMA The Journal for the Philosophy of Language, Mind and the Arts

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
Abstract

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 Allegory • Cetaceans • Epistemology • Cartography • Clouds • Logic • Iconology • Eco-dystopia • Philosophy • Transcendental illusion • Sound • Territory • Machine gaze • Worlding • Physical Geography • Topographic mapping • Spatiality • Marine ecology • Semiotics • Race • Biston betularia carbonaria • Counter-mapping • Scopic regime • Nelson Goodman • Mind • Symbol • Ecology • Mapping processes • Geographic ontology • Immanuel Kant • Representational Risk • Drone photography • Symbolic Representation • Surveillance technologies • Italian colonial cartography • Blank spot • Fluidity • Indigenous cartography • Palimpsest • Hyperobjects • Monsters • Contemporary art • Conceptual cartography • Michel Serres • Walter Benjamin • Systematic ambiguity • Geographic Information Systems • Sámi Art • Sea • Libyan Desert • Epistemic Risk • Geontopower • Ryle • Geography • Recording • Aesthetics in Science • Mapping • Ocean • Art • Cartographic Styles • Map • System • Yorùbáland • Conceptual analysis • Maps • Strait • Digitalisation • Category-mistake • Digital • Vertical perspective • Climate-change • Hans Ragnar Mathisen • Settler Colonialism

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/Jolma/2723-9640/2024/01 | Published July 26, 2024 | Language en

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