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
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
@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? 🤔)