New Lines: Critical GIS and the Trouble of the Map
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New Lines: Critical GIS and the Trouble of the Map
By (Author) Matthew W. Wilson
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
15th November 2017
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Cartography, map-making and projections
Geographical information systems, geodata and remote sensing
Impact of science and technology on society
Society and culture: general
910.285
Physical Properties
Hardback
224
Width 140mm, Height 216mm, Spine 25mm
Description
New 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
Reviews
"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. Wilsons 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 troublestechnical, epistemological, cultural, and politicalassociated 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. Wilsons 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
Author Bio
Matthew W. Wilson is associate professor of geography at the University of Kentucky and visiting scholar in the Center for Geographic Analysis at Harvard University.
