Visualizing Antarctica as a Place in Time
This article presents a chronogeographic account of the Antarctic spatialities that are inflected through the image of the RADARSAT map. Focusing on time as a spatializing operation within the visual geography of globalizing and globally available cartographies, the author questions the multiple geo...
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ftulancaster:oai:eprints.lancs.ac.uk:49374 2023-08-27T04:06:15+02:00 Visualizing Antarctica as a Place in Time Yusoff, Kathryn 2005-11 https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/49374/ https://doi.org/10.1177/1206331205280147 unknown Yusoff, Kathryn (2005) Visualizing Antarctica as a Place in Time. Space and Culture, 8 (4). pp. 381-398. ISSN 1552-8308 Journal Article PeerReviewed 2005 ftulancaster https://doi.org/10.1177/1206331205280147 2023-08-03T22:20:57Z This article presents a chronogeographic account of the Antarctic spatialities that are inflected through the image of the RADARSAT map. Focusing on time as a spatializing operation within the visual geography of globalizing and globally available cartographies, the author questions the multiple geographies that must be considered in a geopolitical account of such a mapping. The subject of this topology is the “event” of the NASA RADARSAT map of Antarctica exhibiting the effects of global warming as a scientific and media event on the Web. Specifically the RADARSAT map documents destruction and also renders it innocuous through technologies of distance. This realization of geopolitical imperatives through scientific visualization reveals particular tensions and operations within Antarctic and global visual cultures. As a narrative cartography, it exhibits how geographic information systems operate in a plurality of visual regimes. The author concludes that the politics of visualizing Antarctica is embedded in the histories of its media production and in this reveals how time has a chronogeographic operation. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica Lancaster University: Lancaster Eprints Antarctic The Antarctic Space and Culture 8 4 381 398 |
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This article presents a chronogeographic account of the Antarctic spatialities that are inflected through the image of the RADARSAT map. Focusing on time as a spatializing operation within the visual geography of globalizing and globally available cartographies, the author questions the multiple geographies that must be considered in a geopolitical account of such a mapping. The subject of this topology is the “event” of the NASA RADARSAT map of Antarctica exhibiting the effects of global warming as a scientific and media event on the Web. Specifically the RADARSAT map documents destruction and also renders it innocuous through technologies of distance. This realization of geopolitical imperatives through scientific visualization reveals particular tensions and operations within Antarctic and global visual cultures. As a narrative cartography, it exhibits how geographic information systems operate in a plurality of visual regimes. The author concludes that the politics of visualizing Antarctica is embedded in the histories of its media production and in this reveals how time has a chronogeographic operation. |
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