In the deserts of cartography
building, dwelling, mapping
pp. 599-608
in: Shyam Wuppuluri, Francisco A. Doria (eds), The map and the territory, Berlin, Springer, 2018Abstract
Any discussion of the map and the territory, at least insofar as it touches on literary or cultural studies, will frequently turn to the evocative little story by Jorge Luis Borges, tantalizing titled "On Exactitude in Science." It is certainly one of the most recognizable, even most canonical, texts in spatiality studies, broadly conceived, and it always helps to set a properly philosophical tone when thinking about the problem of representation.
