Object-Oriented Cartography

<p><em>Object-Oriented Cartography</em> provides an innovative perspective on the changing nature of maps and cartographic study. Through a renewed theoretical reading of contemporary cartography, this book acknowledges the shifted interest from cartographic representation to mapping practice and proposes an alternative consideration of the ‘thingness’ of maps.</p><p>Rather than asking how maps map onto reality, it explores the possibilities of a speculative-realist map theory by bringing cartographic objects to the foreground. Through a pragmatic perspective, this book focuses on both digital and nondigital maps and establishes an unprecedented dialogue between the field of map studies and object-oriented ontology. This dialogue is carried out through a series of reflections and case studies involving aesthetics and technology, ethnography and image theory, and narrative and photography.</p><p>Proposing methods to further develop this kind of cartographic research, this book will be invaluable reading for researchers and graduate students in the fields of Cartography and Geohumanities.</p> <p>Introduction: layers of map thinking; 1. (Re)Turning to cartographic things; 2. From object-oriented ontology (OOO) to map studies, and vice versa; 3. Stretching theories: cartographic objects, map acts; 4. To rest on cartographic surfaces; 5. Learning from cartifacts, drifting through mapscapes; 6. The productive failures of literary cartographic objects: the father, the son, <em>The Road</em>, and the broken map; 7. The gentle politics of non-human narration: a Europe map’s autobiography; 8. Pictured maps, object renderings and close readings; 9. Animated cartography, or entering in dialogue with maps; 10. Maps vis-à-vis maps: (in-car) navigation, coexistence and the digital others; 11. Re-visitations at cartographic sites: the becomings and ‘unbecomings’ of maps; 12. Conclusions</p>