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With the notion of “ontological performativity,” the previous chapter highlights cartography’s capacity to assert, create, or perform beings that would not otherwise exist, and to unfold understandings of being that would not otherwise obtain. My analysis of the Depictions shows how modern mapping p...

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Published inMapping Beyond Measure p. 143
Main Author Simon Ferdinand
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published UNP - Nebraska 01.12.2019
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Summary:With the notion of “ontological performativity,” the previous chapter highlights cartography’s capacity to assert, create, or perform beings that would not otherwise exist, and to unfold understandings of being that would not otherwise obtain. My analysis of the Depictions shows how modern mapping performs a fundamental disclosure of geographical reality as a measurable and malleable extension. Each remaining chapter returns to this quintessentially modern ontology, stressing how it undergirds and recuperates even some of the most strident artistic attempts to reclaim mapping and imagine it otherwise. The following chapter addresses a dimension of mapping’s performativity that went unremarked upon in
ISBN:1496212118
9781496212115
DOI:10.2307/j.ctvrnfr46.9