[...]l they are in my dreams. At that submerged or chaotic level they keep prevailing. And so, as I sleep, some dream beguiles me, and suddenly I know I am dreaming. Then I think
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.
cartography at the time of its emergence in early modern print-culture
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
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
geographic literature
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
(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
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
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 the[...]