Anti-essentialist There is no Truth (with a capital T) - It is against the idea that the truth, whatever it may be, is out there.Against metanarratives (Jean Francooise Lyotard) ○ Argued that people should look at the little things rather than solely focusing on the big things.Poststructuralism - comes about with the period of postmodernity, more focused theoretical and analytical practice regarding meaning, power, identity. Postmodernity - Historical period (similar to postmodernism's time frame) that 'followed' modernity intellectual thought challenged modernist assumptions. Celebration of uncertainty, fragmentation, pastiche. Postmodernism and poststructuralism: Postmodernism - Aesthetic, architectural and intellectual movement (maybe 1960s, definitely 80s and 90s). The point of the building is that you can get around the hotel without having to interact with people who were not as rich.Bonaventure hotel, LA (Frederic Jameson, Ed Soja) Elevators wouldn't stop on every floor, so people were forced to take the stairs in a high-rise building. ○ There wasn't enough money to maintain the buildings. Louis, there was this architectural plan but it failed and they tore down the buildings in the 70s. (for example, one part of the city would just be residential, another part commercial, etc.) ○ He was really interested in zoning cities. ○ He thought about our homes as machines that we are living in. Le Corbusier, a Swiss-French architecture.Idea that architecture has social purpose.Shift towards self-governance (democratic ideals) Modern Architecture:.Science is seen as liberating and almost limitless. Tied with liberation ○ Peet: "Reason advances knowledge knowledge enables science and science serves the liberatory aims of society" ■ Shifting away from traditional ways of understanding the world.Progress towards a more accurate Truth GIS: geography information system - Pivoting of geography from a spatial science to noematic practices Modernity.Context: 1) Moment of cartography in the discipline 2) Shift from modern to postmodern cartographic vision Cartography has been/is modern (p4) Deconstructing the map: context "My basic argument in this essay is that we should encourage an epistemology shift in the way we interpret the nature of cartography. ■ He died two years later so he did not have the opportunity to expand on his works. Father of Critical Cartography (an area that looks at the knowledge production in maps) ○ This work was his first piece to make it out into the world.For many, it radically changed how they were thinking. Questioning map and mapping -> Deconstructing the Map, published in Cartographica ○ Published 1989, editor knew this was a big work ○ Harley's piece was groundbreaking.Historical geographies of maps (e.g., Ordnance Survey maps) and mapping techniques.
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