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Pickles, John, 1952-

A history of spaces : cartographic reason, mapping, and the geo-coded world / John Pickles. - London ; New York : Routledge, 2004. - xxii, 233 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Maps and worlds -- Deconstructing the map -- What do maps represent? The crisis of representation and the critique of cartographic reason -- Situated pragmatics: maps and apping as Social Practice -- The over-coded world: a genealogy of modern mapping -- The cartographic gaze, global visions, and modalities of visual culture -- Cadasters and capitalisms: the emergence of a new map consciousness -- Mapping the geo-body: state, territory, and nation -- Commodity and control: technologies of the social body -- Investing bodies in depth -- Cyber-empires and new cultural politics of digital spaces -- Counter-mappings: cartographic reason in the age of intelligent machines and smart bombs.

0415144973 (hbk. : alk. paper) 0415144981 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2003008283


Cartography.

GA105.3 / .P52 2004

526 / PIH
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