Contents
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
Index
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.
"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
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