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An Atlas of Radical Cartography

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An Atlas of Radical Cartography is a collection of 10 maps and 10 essays about social issues from globalization to garbage; surveillance to extraordinary rendition; statelessness to visibility; deportation to migration. The map is inherently political— and the contributions to this book wear their politics on their sleeves.

An Atlas of Radical Cartography provides a critical foundation for an area of work that bridges art/design, cartography/geography, and activism. The maps and essays in this book provoke new understandings of networks and representations of power and its effects on people and places. These new perceptions of the world are the prerequisites of social change.

MAPS | An Architektur | the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) | Ashley Hunt | Institute for Applied Autonomy with Site-R | Pedro Lasch | Lize Mogel | Trevor Paglen & John Emerson | Brooke Singer | Jane Tsong | Unnayan

ESSAYS | Kolya Abramsky | Maribel Casas-Cortes & Sebastian Cobarrubias | Alejandro De Acosta | Avery F. Gordon | Institute for Applied Autonomy | Sarah Lewison | Jenny Price, Jane Tsong, DJ Waldie, Ellen Sollod, Paul S. Kibel | Heather Rogers | Jai Sen | Visible Collective & Trevor Paglen

EDITORS | Lize Mogel & Alexis Bhagat

Projet cartographie expérimentale
Tags généraux : #cartoexperiment #biblioxperiment
Tags particulier : #visualisation #complexité_visuelle #art #représentation #résistance #cartographie_engagée

There May Be Two Trillion Other Galaxies - Facts So Romantic
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In 1939, the year Edwin Hubble won the Benjamin Franklin award for his studies of “extra-galactic nebulae,” he paid a visit to an ailing friend. Depressed and interred at Las Encinas Hospital, a mental health facility, the friend, an actor and playwright named John Emerson, asked Hubble what—spiritually, cosmically—he believed in. In Edwin Hubble: Mariner of the Nebulae, Gale E. Christianson writes that Hubble, a Christian-turned-agnostic, “pulled no punches” in his reply. “The whole thing is so much bigger than I am,” he told Emerson, “and I can’t understand it, so I just trust myself to it, and forget about it.” Even though he was moved by a sense of the universe’s immensity, it’s arresting to recall how small Hubble thought the cosmos was at the time. “The picture suggested by the (...)

Counter Cartographies with Lize Mogel | MIT Center for Civic Media
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Artist and designer Lize Mogel came to the Center for Civic Media to discuss “Counter-cartography” a practice that uses #maps and mapping to challenge the mainstream narrative of a site or history, from a political or activist perspective.

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#cartographie_radicale

» La carte de la honte|
Richard Hétu
▻http://blogues.lapresse.ca/hetu/2013/02/05/la-carte-de-la-honte

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Le journaliste Max Fisher du Washington Post a réalisé la carte des 54 pays, dont le Canada, qui ont collaboré avec la CIA dans son programme de détention secrète et de torture de suspects de terrorisme après les attentats du 11 septembre 2001, selon un rapport de l’organisation Open Society Justice publié aujourd’hui.

Selon le rapport, le Canada est le seul à avoir présenté des excuses à une victime de ce programme, en l’occurrence Maher Arar.

#Tortures