"A map is a composite of places, and like a place, it hides as much as it reveals. It is
also a composite of times, blandly laying out on a single surface the result of billions
of years of activity by nature and humanity." ~ Lucy R. Lippard
"I do not want to map these sites of confluence without due theoretical consideration.
There are deeply ethical questions about such a venture as this; how for example,
researching and mapping implicates across contexts, real people's lives, instances of
recognition. Mapping is the mechanism par excellence of culture. That is, culture as
repository of human artifice, as the movement towards the colony of itself, and cannot
but map its relationship to space and time. Mapping is a poetic voice in the dark, a
prison-house of knowledge, a disrupting, relentless, civilising process, as well as a
guide to staying alive, of understanding that prison-house. Mapping is therefore
inherently paradoxical, reminding us simultaneously of our fragility and resourcefulness
in the face of life and death. It reveals how space is ordered just as much as it indicates
the manner in which space has been imagined..."
From the brilliant Cultural studies work, Mapping the Rainbow Region by Baden Offord
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