Cover

Half Title Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

Introduction

Two Simple Examples

Making a Map of Mars

Mapping

Counter-Mapping

Part I. MAPPING

Chapter 1. Maps Blossom in the Springtime of the State

Maps Give Us a Reality beyond Our Reach

And a Map Is . . . ?

The Development of the Map Discourse Function

Trying to Write the History of Mapmaking

There Were No Maps before 1500

Calling Older Graphic Notation Systems “Maps” Is Anachronistic

The Rise of Mapmaking in the Early Modern State

Maps Figure the State

As the Map Affirms the State, the State Affirms the Map

Maps Unleashed

Chapter 2. Unleashing the Power of the Map

Maps Advance Propositions

Maps Make Arguments

Maps Propose the Existence of Things

The Map’s Propositional Logic

The Posting

“This Is . . .”: The Precedent Existential Proposition

“This Is There . . .”: The Posting or Fundamental Cartographic Proposition

Adding Postings Up to Make Territories: “This1 is there1” and “this2 is there2” and “this3 is there3” make “this4 is there4”

The Transmission of Authority: “This1 is there1,” and “this2 is there2” but “there1 < there2,” and therefore “this1 < this2”

Annexation, Division, and Entrained Operations

Chapter 3. Signs in the Service of the State

The Legends of the Map

But Then Maps Are Myths

Everything’s in Code

At Least 10 Cartographic Codes

Chapter 4. Making Signs Talk to Each Other

Varieties of Iconicity

Inviting Words to Realize Their Expressive Potential

Shaping Space

What Time Has This Place?

It’s Not a Simple Set of Rules

Maps Are about Relationships

Elemental Signs Are Somewhere

Sign Systems Go Somewhere

Sign Systems in Dialogue

Injecting the Map into Its Culture

Part II. COUNTER-MAPPING

Chapter 5. Counter-Mapping and the Death of Cartography

Protest Maps

Maps in Protest

Critical Cartography

Cartographers Intentionally Foreclosed This Awareness

Early Critique in the History of Mapmaking

Critique within the Profession of Cartography

The Outside Critique: Indigenous Mapping

The Outside Critique: The Parish Maps Project

Chapter 6. Talking Back to the Map

Public? Participation? Geographic? Information? Systems?

Public Participation

The Reframing of Public Discourse

The Detroit Geographical Expedition and Institute

The Situationist International

Jake Barton’s City of Memory

Public Participation Geographic Information Systems

Chapter 7. Map Art: Stripping the Mask from the Map

Joyce Kozloff

A Little History: Dada and Surrealism

A Little More History: Letterism, Situationism, Pop, and Fluxus

A Little More History Yet: Conceptual Art, Earth Art

Map Art Exhibitions: A Tedious but Necessary Section

What Is All This About?

Lize Mogel

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3Cs

Lauren Rosenthal

elin O’Hara slavick and Susanne Slavick

Lilla LoCurto and Bill Outcault

Simon Elvins

Steven R Holloway

Chapter 8. Mapmaking, Counter-Mapping, and Map Art in the Mapping of Palestine

The Early Mapping of Palestine

The Early Modern Mapping of Palestine

Mapping and Counter-Mapping in Mandatory Palestine

British Maps, Israeli Counter-Maps, Now Palestinian Counter-Counter-Maps

Art Mapping the Conflict and the Occupation

There Aren’t Two Sides

Notes

Index

About the Authors