Maps turn each of us into what Michel de Certeau calls a ‘voyeur-god’ … The map is a mechanism that shows what no eye could ever see, even when the maps represents the most familiar territory— the space marked out by daily experience … Maps suggest ways of thinking as well as seeing. They materialize a view of the mind more than of external reality. They project an order of reason onto the world and force it to conform to a graphic rationale, a cultural grid, a conceptual geometry.
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Christian Jacob, The Sovereign Map
(the piece where got the de Certeau bit from was his 1984 book, The Practice of Everyday Life)
(Source: susannathinks)
Ghosts of forever ride the pale twilight Teller of the tale lives beneath the ice Shadow of the haunter creeps within our sight As we lay sleeping… Horror …
Bless “Blessed Black Wings” for helping me get me thru this. It’s doing all the fury and hardness and bleak for me.
(Source: madonnax)
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