The Political Mapping of Cyberspace
224 pages, 5 halftones, 13 line drawings, 6 tables 6-5/8 x 9-3/16
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2004
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ISBN: 9780226117454
Published February 2004
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Published February 2004
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Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Being Virtually There: The Spatial Problematics of "Cyberspace" The production of cyberspace Subjectification and cyberspace Governmentality as the "contact point" Confession and parrhesia Case studies in the production of cyberspace Mind the gap Towards a critical politics of the practice of mapping Conclusion PART I CARTOGRAPHIC POWER-KNOWLEDGES 2. The History of Internet Mapping Definition of distributed mapping and scope of chapter Critical theoretical issues of distributed mapping The history of distributed mapping as a mode of cartography Distributed mapping in historical context early developments Cartography and GIS The history of the Web and contemporary development of distributed mapping Implications of distributed mapping Conclusion 3. Why Mapping is Political Horizons of possibility Theory and practice in cartography "The fisherman's problem": ontic and ontological knowledges How we might do philosophical thinking Problematizing the essential lie Towards a critical politics of cartography Summary PART II TECHNOLOGIES OF THE SELF 4. Authenticity and Authentication Authenticity as authentication What space for authenticity? Technologies of the self Authenticity of place as a political project: against the "confession" of the map Self-writing as non-confessional practice of the self 5. Communities in Cyberspace: Confession and Parrhesia On speaking your mind Blogging and community On confession and cyberspace Confession throughout cyberspace Resistance: blogging as self-writing Resistance as parrhesia PART III CASE STUDIES IN THE PRODUCTION OF CYBERSPACE 6. Disciplinary Cyberspaces: Security and Surveillance Early applications of crime-mapping Governmentality Digital crime-mapping and surveillance Is privacy the issue? The risks of security 7. Geographies of the Digital Divide Some terms and issues The digital divide at different scales Divides and lags Wealth and connectivity From the global to the regional: Atlanta in context From the regional to the local: Atlanta in detail Addressing the divide with GIS Beyond the digital divide PART IV CONCLUSION 8. Positivities of Power, Possibilities of Pleasure Mapping as Befindlichkeit and Verlorenheit Positivities of power Possibilities of pleasure Conclusions Notes References Index
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