carto

Always turning.

[deitograf]

Sargasso Sea/Within the Bounds of the North Atlantic Gyre (National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, March 2021)

[noosphe-re]

“Today abstraction is no longer that of the map, the double, the mirror, or the concept. Simulation is no longer that of a territory, a referential being, or a substance. It is the generation by models of a real without origin or reality: a hyperreal. The territory no longer precedes the map, nor does it survive it. It is nevertheless the map that precedes the territory—precession of simulacra—that engenders the territory, and if one must return to the fable, today it is the territory whose shreds slowly rot across the extent of the map. It is the real, and not the map, whose vestiges persist here and there in the deserts that are no longer those of the Empire, but ours. The desert of the real itself.”

— Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation

[deitograf]

The Heavens Panel//Two-Thirds of the Way to Nirvana (Burmese Theravada Buddhists, c. 1700s)

[wonder-rooms]

Draughtsman’s Alphabets (1871) - Hermann Esser

[deitograf]

The Himalayan Plateau/Greater Tibet & Adjacent Regions (Survey Of India, 1914)

[deitograf]

The World/Terra Cognita & Encircling Oceans Surrounded by Mount Qāf (Qazvīnī, 661/1262-63)

[deitograf]

Land of the Miamis/The Ohio River Valley (Chegeree, 1755)

[deitograf]

Victoria Harbor/North Side of Hong Kong Island (Unknown, 1845)

[deitograf]

Appalachia/On The Border of Tennessee and Kentucky (USGS, 1963)

[deitograf]