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OverviewNew Lines takes the pulse of a society increasingly drawn to the power of the digital map, examining the conceptual and technical developments of the field of geographic information science as this work is refracted through a pervasive digital culture. Matthew W. Wilson draws together archival research on the birth of the digital map with a reconsi Full Product DetailsAuthor: Matthew W. WilsonPublisher: University of Minnesota Press Imprint: University of Minnesota Press Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.60cm ISBN: 9780816698523ISBN 10: 081669852 Pages: 224 Publication Date: 15 November 2017 Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , General , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsContents Preface Introduction: But Do You Actually Do GIS? 1. Criticality: The Urgency of Drawing and Tracing 2. Digitality: Origins, or the Stories We Tell Ourselves 3. Movement: Strange Concepts and the Essentially Subjective 4. Attention: Memory Support and the Care of Community 5. Quantification: Counting on Location-Aware Futures 6. A Single Point Does Not Form a Line Acknowledgments Notes IndexReviewsThe book is an important provocation for any mapmaker, cartographer, and spatial thinker. Ultimately, the book is a required read - even if only for the history alone - for any map user. -Rhizomes New Lines reinvigorates some of the discussions that GIScience scholars have debated for decades by presenting material that is substantial without being impenetrable. -Cartographic Perspectives With rapidly shifting digital technologies, geo-surveillance, everyday cartography, privatized georeferenced data, and neoliberalization, New Lines offers a reflexive reassessment of the scholarly praxis of critical GIS, an increasingly anachronistic term. Attentive also to contemporary philosophical debates, Matthew W. Wilson's lively and ambitious manifesto pushes the reader to re-examine everything they thought they knew about the topic. -Eric Sheppard, author of Limits to Globalization: The Disruptive Geographies of Capitalist Development This elegantly argued book offers a brilliantly original perspective on the many `troubles'-technical, epistemological, cultural, and political-associated with the contemporary proliferation of digital mapping systems. For anyone interested in understanding the rapidly changing sociohistorical, technological and institutional contexts in which cartographic practice occurs, Matthew W. Wilson's New Lines will provide a foundational source of insight, wisdom, inspiration, and provocation. -Neil Brenner, Harvard University With rapidly shifting digital technologies, geo-surveillance, everyday cartography, privatized georeferenced data, and neoliberalization, New Lines offers a reflexive reassessment of the scholarly praxis of critical GIS, an increasingly anachronistic term. Attentive also to contemporary philosophical debates, Matthew W. Wilson's lively and ambitious manifesto pushes the reader to re-examine everything they thought they knew about the topic. --Eric Sheppard, author of Limits to Globalization: The Disruptive Geographies of Capitalist Development This elegantly argued book offers a brilliantly original perspective on the many 'troubles'--technical, epistemological, cultural, and political--associated with the contemporary proliferation of digital mapping systems. For anyone interested in understanding the rapidly changing sociohistorical, technological and institutional contexts in which cartographic practice occurs, Matthew W. Wilson's New Lines will provide a foundational source of insight, wisdom, inspiration, and provocation. --Neil Brenner, Harvard University The book is an important provocation for any mapmaker, cartographer, and spatial thinker. Ultimately, the book is a required read - even if only for the history alone - for any map user. -Rhizomes New Lines reinvigorates some of the discussions that GIScience scholars have debated for decades by presenting material that is substantial without being impenetrable. -Cartographic Perspectives With rapidly shifting digital technologies, geo-surveillance, everyday cartography, privatized georeferenced data, and neoliberalization, New Lines offers a reflexive reassessment of the scholarly praxis of critical GIS, an increasingly anachronistic term. Attentive also to contemporary philosophical debates, Matthew W. Wilson's lively and ambitious manifesto pushes the reader to re-examine everything they thought they knew about the topic. -Eric Sheppard, author of Limits to Globalization: The Disruptive Geographies of Capitalist Development This elegantly argued book offers a brilliantly original perspective on the many 'troubles'-technical, epistemological, cultural, and political-associated with the contemporary proliferation of digital mapping systems. For anyone interested in understanding the rapidly changing sociohistorical, technological and institutional contexts in which cartographic practice occurs, Matthew W. Wilson's New Lines will provide a foundational source of insight, wisdom, inspiration, and provocation. -Neil Brenner, Harvard University Author InformationMatthew W. Wilson is associate professor of geography at the University of Kentucky and visiting scholar in the Center for Geographic Analysis at Harvard University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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