REMOTE VISION EXPERIMENTS: A PHOTO ROMAN. Issue 1 (2nd January 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Is Part Of: Angelaki. Volume 24:Issue 1(2019)
• Page Start: i
• Page End: xv
• Publication Date: 2019-01-02
• Subjects: Literature -- Criticism and interpretation -- Periodicals; Philosophy -- Periodicals; Political science -- Periodicals; 100
• DOI: 10.1080/0969725X.2019.1606485
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0969-725X

Abstract

Abstract: This work considers the ways in which, throughout human history, maps have defined our limits as much as charted our exploration. These images act as a kind of ghost vision – a spectral overlay of the world created and accessed as data sets, satellite imagery, and geopolitical mapping, merged in an algorithmically generated 3D mesh. This brings with it a view of the world in which complementary and competing navigational vectors collage and collide. Yet, for all its apparent hyper-modern otherness, its novelty and dexterity is still oriented around and contingent upon the temporal and electromagnetic limits of our biological inheritance.