Category Archives: Critique

Against Metaphor

Posted on October 19, 2010 by Navigating Maps

An essay, by Alain Robbe-Grillet, on the hazards of metaphor.

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Del Rigor en la Ciencia

Posted on October 18, 2010 by Navigating Maps

Original recording of Jorge Luís Borges. On Exactitude in Science …In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the map of a single Province occupied the entirety of a City, and the map of the Empire, the … Continue reading →

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Handout for 9-20-10

Posted on September 20, 2010 by Navigating Maps

Hey everyone, Here is a handout for today, featuring “Myrtle,” a poem by John Ashbery (originally published in And the Stars Were Shining; it’s been included in a number of anthologies, including Notes from the Air: Selected Later Poems) as … Continue reading →

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Reading for Monday, September 13

Posted on September 7, 2010 by Navigating Maps

Hey everyone, I’ve made a PDF of the reading for our next class, The Architecture of Continents. It’s the first chapter from a book called The Myth of Continents, by Martin W. Lewis and Kären E. Wigen. Please let us know … Continue reading →

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‘A New Cartographer’

Posted on September 2, 2010 by Navigating Maps

An essay by Gilles Deleuze on Michel Foucault.

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Review of Harley

Posted on September 1, 2010 by Navigating Maps

Here is a review of J.B. Harley’s work. The review also discusses Denis Cosgrove’s book Apollo’s Eye: A Cartographic Genealogy of the Earth in the Western Imagination, which people might be interested in reading. The review was published in the London Review … Continue reading →

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