‘Mapping It Out’: Hans Ulrich Obrist and Tom McCarthy
London Review Bookshop Podcast
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Is Google Maps a Nefarious Way of Thinking?
I love Google Maps, but they have no correspondence to the reality of what you experience when you walk or drive. It seems to me an absolutely nefarious way of thinking about mapping the city that the way you want to go is the shortest way. And one thing I actually love about this book is the number of bad grids in it. So several of the artists, especially, use grid's fear back strum has all these dissolving grids. Toho Ito has a kind of cheese-like labyrinth of holes. There's a lot of people that are systematically attacking that very Cartesian slash Google kind of logic. In terms of power relations, something like Google Map is a way of dominating
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