Practicing Spatial Epistemology with Immanuel Kant's 'Physical' Classification. Issue 1 (March 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Bauch, Nicholas
• Is Part Of: International journal of humanities and arts computing. Volume 11:Issue 1(2017)
• Page Start: 55
• Page End: 67
• Publication Date: 2017-03
• Subjects: cultural geography -- spatial epistemology -- spatial narrative -- geohumanities -- cartography; Humanities -- Data processing -- Periodicals; Arts -- Data processing -- Periodicals; 001.30285
• DOI: 10.3366/ijhac.2017.0178
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1753-8548

Abstract

Abstract : Practicing cultural geography in a web-based digital medium has led to the possibility of resurrecting early-twentieth-century ideas about the primacy of space in organizing information. In this article I discuss the philosophical underpinnings that drove the creation of my digital monographEnchanting the Desert . Different than a spatial narrative that associates data points with their attendant cartographic representations, I use space—and specifically landscape—to order my information. Spatial proximity bundles and orders items on its own, a priori giving meaning to things existing next to one another in a landscape. Using space as a way to forge topical relevancy appears to be an uncommon approach, but in fact is paramount for a more productive and holistic ecological practice. The digital medium of the interactive web application makes this spatial epistemology possible.