JoLMAPub Date : 2024-07-26DOI: 10.30687/jolma/2723-9640/2024/01/010
Philipp Tschochohei
{"title":"The World as Allegory in Cartography\u0000 Symbolic and allegorical reference systems in the aesthetics of digital cartography","authors":"Philipp Tschochohei","doi":"10.30687/jolma/2723-9640/2024/01/010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30687/jolma/2723-9640/2024/01/010","url":null,"abstract":"This philosophical essay explores the idea of the world as allegory in cartography, drawing on the works of Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, and Nelson Goodman. It argues existentially that maps are not only representations of measurable objects, but also of aesthetic experiences. It analyses epistemologically how maps use symbols and allegories as representations to determine meanings or reveal truths. And finally, it shows how digital maps today, like works of art, reflect and shape world views and how, as a medium, they are interwoven with the perception, cognition and (inter)action.","PeriodicalId":514603,"journal":{"name":"JoLMA","volume":"27 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141801806","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
JoLMAPub Date : 2024-07-26DOI: 10.30687/jolma/2723-9640/2024/01/001
Elizabeth Povinelli
{"title":"Semiotics After Geontopower\u0000 Some Preliminary Thoughts","authors":"Elizabeth Povinelli","doi":"10.30687/jolma/2723-9640/2024/01/001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30687/jolma/2723-9640/2024/01/001","url":null,"abstract":"This essay is part of a book project, tentatively titled, Do We Need a Semiotics After Geontopower? The essay begins with an overview of the atmospheric conditions of an old debate about how to liberate theories of mind, communication and language from their humanist enclosure. It does so by highlighting a few scientific and public debates about what constitutes evidence of prehuman, and nonhuman animal and plant forms of mind and communication. The purpose of this brief foray into complicated debates is to conjure the sense-intuitions circulating around these arguments about the political and ethical stakes of describing a kind of existence as having this or that quality of language and mind. The essay then puts pressure on how these sense-intuitions about communication and mind are scaled—how a sense of the stakes of mind to the treatment of existence becomes a quest to model a general theory of a post-humanist mind. This takes me to the commonalities between a certain way of producing a posthumanist mind and the strategies of environmental protect within the movement for the rights of nature. Why do these approaches feel to some like they are the best way of verifying that prehuman, nonhuman animal and plant forms, and nonlife have semiotic capacities as one supports First Nation and Indigenous earthkin?The essay ends by summarizing the broader content and stakes of Do We Need a Semiotics After Geontopower?","PeriodicalId":514603,"journal":{"name":"JoLMA","volume":"11 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141801609","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
JoLMAPub Date : 2024-07-26DOI: 10.30687/jolma/2723-9640/2024/01/003
Marco Costantini
{"title":"How Much Geography in Kant’s Critical Project?","authors":"Marco Costantini","doi":"10.30687/jolma/2723-9640/2024/01/003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30687/jolma/2723-9640/2024/01/003","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we will address the following points: (1) we will question the geneal belief that Kant’s philosophical approach has a geographical character, by showing how critical philosophy and physical geography establish, in their respective systems, two inverse relationships between the rational and the aesthetic form of spatiality; (2) we will argue that cartography still plays a role in the realization of a scientific system of cognition, and that this role consists in guiding this very realization; (3) lastly, we will develop the hypothesis that the map of the cognitive faculties, exemplified by the transcendental topic, is part of a device aimed at keeping the subject from the adventures of thought typical of dogmatism.","PeriodicalId":514603,"journal":{"name":"JoLMA","volume":"10 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141801757","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
JoLMAPub Date : 2024-07-26DOI: 10.30687/jolma/2723-9640/2024/01/007
Zsolt Győző Török
{"title":"Mapping a Blank Spot and Making Empty Spaces\u0000 Geographic and Cartographic Ontology in Italian Topographic Mapping of the Southern Libyan Desert in the 1930s","authors":"Zsolt Győző Török","doi":"10.30687/jolma/2723-9640/2024/01/007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30687/jolma/2723-9640/2024/01/007","url":null,"abstract":"This study explores the ontological assumptions of mapping as active processes, rather than passive representations and discusses the need for pragmatic guidelines in map-making, as maps only acquire meaning through their users’ minds and bodies. The paper presents historical examples of Italian colonial topographic mapping of the southern Libyan Desert during the 1930s. It emphasizes the interconnected histories of geographical exploration, social and cultural contexts, and technical practices. The paper argues that the ‘empty spaces’ on maps reflect intentional choices made by cartographers, not insufficient data. The performative nature and diverse sociocultural conditions of maps need to be considered to understand their meaning and use.","PeriodicalId":514603,"journal":{"name":"JoLMA","volume":"37 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141800244","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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