[...] my dreams engender the ="trms">wild ="trms">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 ="trms">bird.

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The one that is in the other forever betrays its ="trms">differences with respect to its surrounding milieu in the field of the frame.


cartography at the time of its emergence in early ="trms">modern print-culture ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] maps were tipped into ="trms">books to call attention to the aspect and format of a medium for which seeing and ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading were of a same character.

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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 ="trms">accord with where it is felt in respect at once to itself and to its milieus.='strcls'>***

maps ='lgc'>==> that we are ="trms">naturally in the ="trms">world

="trms">ontology is a function of geography

='strcls'>*** Figures in a topographic field are as they are because geography is destiny ='strcls'>***

(can be defined in a narrow sense) Identity='lgc'>: the consciousness of belonging (or longing to belong) to a place and of being at a distance from it.


map='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•a guarantee for “taking place”
="lsts lst1">•a sign of prevarication (a map is inserted both to establish a fallacious authenticity of a place and to invent new or other spaces)


We find ourselves immediately undone by the weightless fact that we have no reason to be where we are.


="trms">rhetoric of invisibility

maps are of a spatial scale

the ="trms">history of cartography is marked by the appropriation, control, and administration of power (as David Buisseret ='lgc'>[1992='lgc'>], Michel ="ppl">="ppl">Foucault ='lgc'>[1975 and 1994 (1967)='lgc'>], J. Brian Harley ='lgc'>[1988 and 2001='lgc'>], Denis Wood ='lgc'>[1992='lgc'>], and others have shown)

="trms">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 ="trms">world


they lead the viewer “all over the map”


regime of the “image-fact” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> implicit cartography
an abstract point of view on reality that is analyzed

="ppl">Conley > Bazin is close in spirit to the first sentence of Ptolemy's Geography in which ="trms">cosmography is likened to the construction of a ="trms">world map in the way a pa="trms">inter executes the portrait of the sitter, while topography is seen as a local view (of a city) in the way that the same pa="trms">inter depicts an isolated or detached piece, such as an eye or an ear.



(my deep ="trms">interest='lgc'>:) spatial ="trms">histories that procede us

Renaissance
='strcls'>*art='lgc'>: various and always mobile ="trms">articulation of space
='strcls'>*="trms">writings='lgc'>: spatially conceived and ="trms">materially determined ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> they explore surfaces and volumes
='strcls'>*cartography='lgc'>: component of the ="trms">literary ="trms">imagination of the early ="trms">modern age

="large lg1" stl="font-size:115%"> ='lgc'>{="trms">narratives of the Renaissance tell of the construction of the subject through a venture='lgc'>--a plotted itinerary='lgc'>--into the realm of death and back again='lgc'>} (='at'># Adventure Time)

construction of space in disciplines that pertain to ="trms">geometry='strcls'>*
treating ="trms">writing as a function of extension ='lgc'>[="trms">according to ="ppl">Conley, Self-Made Map='lgc'>]
="trms">writing holds, penetrates, delineates, and explores space; it maps itself in ="trms">relation to an autonomous sig="trms">nature='lgc'>--born of the congress of space

early ="trms">modern='lgc'>: a growth of a com="trms">posite ="trms">writing that moves between diagrammatical and discursive inspiration ='lgc'>~=> creation of self

(i have a ="trms">relation with ="nms">ajayeb, or any ‘old’ text, in that of “the pleasure these works afford is due the ways that they allow us to invent ="trms">imaginary realms of space through our illusion of having ‘first-hand’ contact with them” ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='qstn'>? creation of my “self”)
in a ="trms">world in which we discover our ="trms">heritage as gratuitous beings ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a partial and universal ="trms">history of ourselves
we are products of individual and collective ="trms">histories

geographic ="trms">literature


the sudden birth and growth of mapping (between 15th and 17th century)='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•in Renaissance admiration for antiquity Ptolemy esteemed as the ="trms">world's founding geographer
="lsts lst1">•in growth of ="trms">scientific revolution quantification and ="trms">measurement was stressed, the human body and the geographic landscape of the ="trms">natural ="trms">world became topics of ="trms">interest
="lsts lst1">•plotting and perspective='lgc'>: in re="trms">presentation art a “saturated reality” began to animate paintings ='lgc'>+ the invention of artificial perspective ='lgc'>==> new ways of gridding and plotting the ="trms">world
="lsts lst1">•political unification, or nation building, to use maps to construct ="trms">systems of defense
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*emerging self and to the self's ="trms">relation to ='thdf'>the idea of national space

new modes of surveying and plotting the ="trms">world influence re="trms">presentation of the private and public domains of the individual ="trms">writer

theatricalization of the self ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a consciousness of its autonomy (through modes of ="trms">positioning ='lgc'>[in gridded and textual reality='lgc'>])
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a new cartographic impulse='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•changing conditions of information
="lsts lst1">•new taxonomies
="lsts lst1">•new ="trms">relations that individuals hold with space
="lsts lst1">•emerging sense of national identity

the self would acquire its identity through the creation of a space that bears the ="trms">presence (or the reminder) of the mapping of its sig="trms">nature
its “foundational fantasy” depends on (an alliance with) a strongly marked geographic consciousness

="trms">mimes the construction (of a ="trms">world)

contemporary politics of state="trms">craft

...to locate a mobile site of anguish to project the portrait (of epic and lyrical scope) of a national subject='qstn'>?
...between experience and fantasy for the sake of producing ="trms">imaginary conquests in the shape of self-aggrandizement='qstn'>?

ingenieur du moi
medium engineers


="trms">imaginary space, nation, selfhood

='strcls'>*** the self-possessed individual ='strcls'>***

(="ppl">Conley calls) ="trms">writing “cartographic” insofar as tensions of space and of ="trms">figuration inhere in fields of printed discourse
(although his understanding of ="trms">writing as ‘effects of recorded speech’ is not ="trms">interesting)
(and he ties to fast cartography to expansion and conquest, allegorical propaganda of cartographer's ="trms">presence)


living conditions of vocal exchange

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visible coordinates that enclose, frame, quantify

a process of discovery ='lgc'>--that='lgc'>='lgc'>--> maps its movement as it goes
="prgrph">-making a fetish of progress and accuracy
="prgrph">-vital, ="trms">narcissistic illusion that the ="trms">world begins with our birth and expands through our perception of it


="large lg4" stl="font-size:112%"> isolario='lgc'>: illustrating the islands of the ="trms">world, a genre


“national” subjects attached to the geographies that they are both mapping and describing
graphic construction of the self
="ppl">Olearius's globe of Gottorf (='lgc'>=/= ="ppl">="ppl">Morton's hyperobject)='lgc'>: the effect of totality, of having engineered a ="trms">world through its own labors. ='lgc'>[Ptolemaic-="ppl">Aristotlian machinery of the spheres, which hold the fixed stars in place, stars in a trace on the relatively stable horizon of earth and sky (in which meteor deviation from this harmonious arrangement or celestial machinery was considered disastrous)='lgc'>]
='strcls'>**self become autonomous ='lgc'><== fixed to an illusion of a geographic truth, it can be detached from the coordinates that mark its point of view, its ="trms">history, its formation, and the ="trms">aesthetics (and politics) of its sig="trms">nature. ='lgc'>[and with ="frds scrmbld">Sana, through ="ppl">Sa'di, we start with this ="trms">position, rehearsing criticism studies in terms of the birth of the subject and of subjectivity in early ="trms">modern Europe='lgc'>]


terrae incognitae='lgc'>: the unknown, graphically inscribed, and to be conquered

="large lg5" stl="font-size:152%"> “nomination is a mode of ="trms">symbolic appropriation that furnishes virgin territories with a ="trms">memory, with a gridding that dispossesses space of its alterity and that makes of it an object of discovery subjected to the constraints of ="trms">linguistic reference, that intends that at every identifiable site there cor="trms">respond a name” (="ppl">Conley > ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Christianson">Christian Jacob > ="ppl">Mallarme)

lodged in the corporal space of an image of “man”

spectral ="trms">presence of death

navel='lgc'>: construed to be a site where the ="trms">relation of the unknown has its first noticeable, physical trace, ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] the site of a ruptured atta[...]