A history of spaces : cartographic reason, mapping, and the geo-coded world - Pickles, John, 1952- (London ; New York : Routledge, 2004)
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Cartography