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Chris Beddow, mapmaker, voyager, philosopher, and very good skier uses Borges's "On Exactitude in Science" and Umberto Eco's "On the Impossibility of Drawing a Map of the Empire on a Scale of 1 to 1" to go very very deep on the map–territory relationship. Listen and learn how to recognize how your experience on this planet is mediated by the maps you use.
A few notes and links:
- Read Chris's essays at Worldbuilder
- Chris's essay on The Fractal Map and Impossible Symmetry
- Buy Jorge Luis Borges's Collected Fictions
- "On Exactitude in Science" PDF
- Buy Umberto Eco's How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays
- "On the Impossibility of Drawing a Map of the Empire on a Scale of 1 to 1" PDF
- "Raised by Wolves" by Simon Rich
- Psychogeography on Wikipedia
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Outro music is "3/10th of the Population" by WE™.
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