the new world as utopia
When we saw so many cities and villages built in the water and other great towns on dry land we were amazed and said that it was like the enchantments (…) on account of the great towers and cues and...
View Articlefrom cosmos to earth
Alexander von Humboldt starts as a mine inspector. befriends the Romantics circle in Jena, wants to join Napoleon in Egypt, to circumnavegate the globe with Captain Baudin. He travels to Venezuela,...
View Articlefrom cosmos to earth II: seeing
To classify, therefore, will no longer mean to refer the visible back to itself, while allotting one of its elements the task of representing the others; it will mean, in a movement that makes analysis...
View Articleborges & benjamin on maps & labyrinths
I have long, indeed for years, played with the idea of setting out the sphere of life—bios—graphically on a map. First i envisaged an ordinary map, but now I would incline to a general staff’s map of a...
View Articlemapping caracol & new york city
both articles from the nytimes have been up for a few days, but its nice to look at them side by side. also mapping nyc, van alen fellows han and mihalyo. also, as long as we’re on the map subject,...
View Articlelalibela solid void
…courtesy of mark “indiana jones” jarzombek. these churches are cut. into. the f’ing rock. i mean they are all one solid piece of rockness. and that is just the beginning, there is a crazy water tables...
View Articlemaps links
this is just a set of links i thought i’d post—some of them are well known resources, a few have been flying under the radar, and some of them just came to my attention the last couple of weeks...
View Articlemaps and empires
En aquel Imperio, el Arte de la Cartografía logró tal Perfección que el Mapa de una sola Provincia ocupaba toda una Ciudad, y el Mapa del Imperio, toda una Provincia. Con el tiempo, estos Mapas...
View Articleuneven internet
telegeography’s 2010 global internet map telegeography’s global submarine cable map 2010: click on the images to link to original site. related: visualizing facebookFiled under: ., maps
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