[...]t it also opens a rift or brings into view a site where a critical and productively interpretive relation with the film
As the person who gazes upon a map works through a welter of impressions about the geographical information it puts forward—along with his or her own fantasies and pieces of past or anticipated memory in dialogue with the names, places, and forms on the map
When a geography is given a sense of identification, of difference, doubt, a discerning gaze, or a critical reverie
(how certain places are made to become the) simulacra of others
perspective, visual style, narrative economy, scale,
story about the demise of nation and its cartographer
(Dreamtigers by J. L. Borges)
In my childhood I was a fervent worshiper of the tiger
Oh, incompetence! Never can my dreams engender the wild beast I long for. The tiger indeed appears, but stuffed or flimsy, or with impure variations of shape, or of an implausible size, or all too fleeting, or with a touch of the dog or the bird.
The one that is in the other forever betrays its differences with respect to its surrounding milieu in the field of the frame.
toward productive, critical, and even creative speculation
a map in a movie begs and baits us to ponder the fact that who we are or whomever we believe ourselves to be depends, whether or not our locus is fixed or moving, on often unconscious perceptions about where we come from and may be going.
To be able to say who one is depends on believing in the illusion that consciousness is in accord with where it is felt in respect at once to itself and to its milieus.
maps
ontology is a function of geography
(can be defined in a narrow sense) Identity
map
We find ourselves immediately undone by the weightless fact that we have no reason to be where we are.
rhetoric of invisibility
maps are of a spatial scale
the history of cartography is marked by the appropriation, control, and administration of power (as David Buisseret
symbolic and political effectiveness of cartographic diagrams
(to leave open) the art of living with space itself
what it means to be located and discerned in the world
they lead the viewer “all over the map”
regime of the “image-fact”
an abstract point of view on reality that is analyzed
Conley > Bazin is close in spirit to the first sentence of Ptolemy's Geography in which cosmography is likened to the construction of a world map in the way a painter executes the portrait of the sitter, while topography is seen as a local view (of a city) in the way that the same painter depicts an isolated or detached piece, such as an eye or an ear.
(my deep interest
Renaissance
construction of space in disciplines that pertain to geometry
treating writing as a function of extension
writing holds, penetrates, delineates, and explores space; it maps itself in relation to an autonomous signature
early modern
(i have a relation with ajayeb, or any ‘old’ text, in that of “the pleasure these works afford is due the ways that they allow us to invent imaginary realms of space through our illusion of having ‘first-hand’ contact with them”
in a world in which we discover our heritage as gratuitous beings
we are products of individual and collective histories
the sudden birth and growth of mapping (between 15th and 17th century)
new modes of surveying and plotting the world influence representation of the private and public domains of the individual writer
theatricalization of the self
the self would acquire its identity through the creation of a space that bears the presence (or the reminder) of the mapping of its signature
its “foundational fantasy” depends on (an alliance with) a strongly marked geographic consciousness
mimes the construction (of a world)
contemporary politics of statecraft
...to locate a mobile site of anguish to project the portrait (of epic and lyrical scope) of a national subject?
...between experience and fantasy for the sake of producing imaginary conquests in the shape of self-aggrandizement?
ingenieur du moi
medium engineers
imaginary space, nation, selfhood
(Conley calls) writing “cartographic” insofar as tensions of space and of figuration inhere in fields of printed discourse
(although his understanding of writing as ‘effects of recorded speech’ is not interesting)
(and he ties to fast cartography to expansion and conquest, allegorical propaganda of cartographer's presence)
living conditions of vocal exchange
visible coordinates that enclose, frame, quantify
a process of discovery
-making a fetish of progress and accuracy
-vital, narcissistic illusion that the world begins with our birth and expands through our perception of it
isolario
“national” subjects attached to the geographies that they are both mapping and describing
graphic construction of the self
Olearius's globe of Gottorf (
terrae incognitae
“nomination is a mode of symbolic appropriation that furnishes virgin territories with a memory, with a gridding that dispossesses space of its alterity and that makes of it an object of discovery subjected to the constraints of linguistic reference, that intends that at every identifiable site there correspond a name” (Conley >
lodged in the corporal space of an image of “man”
spectral presence of death
navel
-as an embodiment of the relation to the unknown
-the subject desires to give birth to himself or herself
artificial self-birthing and self-monumentalization
it is so strange in Olearius
Olearius's being
tensions between the visible and the invisible
(what is taken to be evident or “visible” meets what remains invisible or outside of language;
to grid the relation of the visible and the invisible (in cartography and writing)
their certain mobility of flux and indeterminacy (in Descartes becomes a subliminal practice)
the ideological dimensions of known and unknown become crystallized
quasi-spatial conquest (through the extension of the delimited field of the known in the channel of a ‘polar relation with the unknown,’ according to mappings that envisage the progression of a deferred knowledge)
...to produce a great geography of introspection
illusion of a universe of infinite curvature
map
mysticism
only adjectival forms of the term had occurred (in Renaissance and before), suggesting that the nonsubstantive status of mystical activities made them more ‘real’ than we might believe
the development of atlas-structures and of two-dimensional
incunabulum
from a half-named sense of the unknown
excess of mastery
absolute quest of power
with
in our exhibition, we are working the gridded/allegorized cartographic discourse/consciousness through appeal to spatial rhetoric
(reworking) the new form of a self-produced “geography” of writing (emerging in 16th century)
-we are perhaps inclined with the figure of Rhizome (from Deleuze and Guattari), the unifying lines and connections that produce an image of...
-schizoanalytic cartographies, Guattari on
-we say (in our work with Olearius)
...an attempt to create in an ever recurring, mobile, and modular structures that endow themselves with renewed form
confused pictorial and lexical properties
pictogram is mobile, it moves between one register of cognition and another, it resembles the rebus
pictogram mobilizes wit
-a pictogram attached to the place that it both represents and remotivates
the labor of interpretation consists exactly in opening onto surprise
ideograms, mimetic figures, miming the objects
that disrupts and affirms the sate of things
a stenographic form that telescopes lang[...]