https://placing.technology/my-dead-white-guys-or-i-have-to-retcon-theory-into-the-dissertation I complained about having to think about theory for my dissertation because I'm approaching the "shut the hell up and actually write it" stage of work
honestly this is probably a boring blog post for most normal people who want to read about geo stuff but I am sharing it for personal accountability purposes and also maybe someone who's better at Latour than me can splain him a little
@jmeowmeow I am being a lil loosey goosey with political economy so Ostrom is probably worth a look!
@ingrid You rang my bell several times between Max, Boundary Objects, and the anthropology of maps.
All of these have been discussion subjects at the Sunday Explorers group for Federated Wiki, growing out of an expansive view of software design patterns and community scale collaboration tools applied to neighborhood material conditions.
@jmeowmeow oooh very cool!
@ingrid so yeah, please continue sharing working reflections.:)
another rando question
@ingrid In your dead white guys post:
"[…Google Earth/Mapses'…] interactivity makes knowledge contained in the digital map something that a viewer may not access in a linear, didactic way."
is this compared to, like, simple maps that are supporting diagrams in books or whatnot? otherwise I'm not following how or what changed. I don't feel like I've ever been able to access, say, a printed USGS Quad in a "linear, didactic way" either, so how are slippy maps that different?
another rando question
@natevw basically, it's just that it's dynamic and like you aren't bound to a single area or scale
another rando question
@ingrid ah thanks! this is probably where pretending I understood "immutable mobile" and just blithely plowing ahead bit me. in that a USGS quad or basically any traditional map is "a consistent, endlessly reproducible transportable object" [trying to catch up via e.g. <https://eliotscott.com/documents/immutable_mobile.pdf>] but a dynamic web resource is far less of each of those adjectives in one sense?
(though otoh in another sense a hosted map everybody simultaneously has with them PERFECTS that? 🤔)
@ingrid oh hey Max Liboiron, that's a very interesting non-dead non-white-guy scholar, and "citation as reproductive labor" is a generous take from her.
I was going to ask about Elinor Ostrom as a framework setter, but her work may be distant from your subject.