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A History of Spaces
Cartographic reason, mapping and
the geo-coded world
John Pickles
I~ ~~O~!!~~i~~UP
LONDON AND NEW YORK
First published 2004
by Routledge
11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE
Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
by Routledge
29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001
Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor
&
Francis Group
For Lynn, Leon and my parents, and for three teachers:
Roger Downs, Peter Gonld and Joseph Kockelmans
© 2004 John Pickles
Typeset in Times by Wearset Ltd, Boldon, Tyne and Wear
Printed and bound in Great Britain by The Cromwell Press,
Trowbridge, Wiltshire
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or
reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical,
or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including
photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or
retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Pickles, John, 1960-
A history of spaces: cartographic reason, mapping, and the geo-
coded world! John Pickles.
p.cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Cartography. L Title.
GA105.3.P522004
526-dc21
2003008283
ISBN 0-415-14497-3 (hbk)
ISBN 0-415-14498-1 (pbk)
Contents
One pylon marks the spot
BBC News Monday, 15 October 200111:55GMT,
http://news.bbc.co.uklhi/english/uk/england/newsid_160000011600225.stm
A field in North Lincolnshire is the most featureless part of the UK,
according to a new Ordnance Survey (OS) map.
List of illustrations
Preface and acknowledgements
PART]
ix
xi
The square kilometre on the outskirts of the village of Ousefieet, near
Scunthorpe, has nothing in
it
except a single electricity pylon and some
overhanging cable. Grid reference SE830220 on map 112 is as near as
cartographers can find to a completely blank square among the 320,000 in
the widely-used Landranger map series, ..
The quest to find Britain's most boring place was set
by
a listener to John
Peel's
Home Truths
show on BBC Radio 4.
Philip Round from the OS said: 'We're not saying it's the dullest place in
Britain.
It
might be the most fascinating place on earth but on our Land-
ranger maps
it
has the least amount of information. No ditches, streams or
buildings in
it
are shown on this particular scale of map. That's quite some
going, considering the lOW-lying areas of East Anglia and remote parts of
Scotland.'
'Friendly community'
The land has been farmed by the Ella family for over 100 years. Tom and
Avril, both in their 50s, grow wheat, barley and sugar beet on it.
Introdnction
1
Maps and worlds
1
3
PART II
Deconstmcting the map
2
What do
m~ps
represent? The crisis of representation
and the cntIque of cartographic reason
Situated pragmatics: maps and mapping as social
practIce
25
27
3
60
PART III
The over-coded world: a genealogy of modem mapping
73
75
'It's a lovely place to live,' Mrs Ella said. 'It's a small, friendly community
with a lovely church nearby.'
But the family is not impressed by the thought that map enthusiasts may
soon be flocking to the location.
'If
people want to come and look at a field, I don't mind, but they're
4
5
The cartographic gaze, global visions and modalities of
vIsual culture
Cada~tres
and capitalisms: the emergence of a new map
conSCIOusness
wasting their petrol.'
The OS has warned that the field's claim to fame could be threatened by
more detailed maps of the same area, 'Drainage ditches or dykes might be
shown up,' said Mr Round.
92
107
124
6
Mapping the geo-body: state, territory and nation
7
Commodity and control: technologies of the social body
viii
Contents
PART IV
Investing bodies in deptb
143
Illustrations
8
Cyber-empires and the new cultural politics of digital
spaces
145
PART V
Conclusion
9
Counter-mappings: \(artographic reason in the age of
intelligent machines and smart bombs
Notes
References
Index

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