Showing posts with label sentimental cartography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sentimental cartography. Show all posts

Sunday, May 22, 2011

Mapping the Human Condition


via brainpickings
“…There’s something about cartography that lends itself to visualizing much more than land and geography. [Presented] are seven cartographic interpretations of the human condition, using the visual vocabulary of classical maps to interpret various facets of the human psyche — a genre that came of age during the late Renaissance, when it became known as “sentimental cartography.”
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