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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Obviously one must have come after the other. In their attempt to impose a consensus over reality they always were tools of power but also convey an inevitable romantic naivety. From Gallileo’s discovery of the globe to Google Earth maps are a continuous struggle in controlling reality trying to make it objective. In another millennium Google Earth’s representation might appear equally subjective as the Waldseem?ller first world map… No surprises the 20th century’s social revolution May 68 was initiated by a movement known for its work of maps.. The Situationists’ d?rive mood maps (Debord Discours sur les passions de l’amour) are a cartographic manifesto of an urban dis-alienation. How can reality be best represented? Once cartography is liberated from its objective rigidity once maps unleash their subjective potential doesn’t it offer a spectacle that reassembles much more the real world out there? (LL)