Cartography as Research Process : A Visual Essay

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    Cartography as Research Process: A Visual Essay
    Cristina Ribas
    To cite this contribution:
    Ribas, Cristina. ‘Cartography as Research Process: A Visual Essay.’ In response to Sohin Hwang and Pablo de Roulet, ‘Bibliography(chorème)=’ OAR Issue 1 (2017). OAR: The Oxford Artistic and Practice Based Research Platform Issue 1 (2017), http://www.oarplatform.com/cartography-research-process-visual-essay.

    Felix Guattari goes against the idea that scientific validity should undermine social functionality when he affirms that the academy is not the only site of theoretical research. He is interested in thinking from an ‘ethico-aesthetic paradigm,’ working upon the transversalisation of knowledge and practice by reframing the question of the institutions, and modes of subjectivation. The notion of subjectivation proposes to problematise the idea of the subject, thinking through the several collective and social forms that play out in our identity constructions. Through schizoanalytic cartographies and the ‘ethico-aesthetic paradigm,’1 Guattari devises transformative political effects that function within both subjectivity and reality. He describes schizoanalytic cartography as ‘a descriptive or functional cartography’; in the present essay, I follow Guattari’s definition, bringing it together with the work of Suely Rolnik on schizoanalytic cartographies.2 Guattari continues: ‘In my estimation, this would involve an invitation to all parties and groups concerned, in accordance with the appropriate modalities, to participate in the activity of creating models that touch on their lives.’3 Guattari proposes a very pragmatic task within cartography, one that works as a research tool and, at the same time, as a way of theorising and inviting action. In this visual essay, I respond to this approach by suggesting, in return, that mapping, diagramming, and devising cartographic procedures all engage several subjective, aesthetic and semiotic processes that constitute forms of research in and of themselves.

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