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Fascicolo | 5 | 1 | 2024

The Art of Mapping Between Land and Mind

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

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/Jolma/2723-9640/2024/01 | Pubblicato 26 Luglio 2024 | Lingua en

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