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Globalisation and Representation of Space (Analyse how the production of a…

- - - - We are limited to discrete objects (dimensions, frame)
        
        Paintings
        
        Diagram
        
        Panorama
        
        Maps
        
        Nations
        
        I propose the following definition of the
        nation: it is an imagined political
        community—and imagined as both
        inherently limited and sovereign. - Anderson 5-6
        
        Institutions
        
        Museum
        
        Census
        
        Maps
  - - - Widely used and referred to
      - Exaggerates the size of the Earth around the poles and shrinks it around the equator
      - problematic given that the first world maps based on the Mercator projection were produced by European colonialists.
      - The task of, as it were, ‘filling in’ the boxes was to be accomplished by explorers, surveyors and military forces. … They were on the march to put space under the same surveillance which the census-makers were trying to impose on persons. Triangulation by triangulation, war by war, treaty by treaty, the alignment of map and power proceeded - Anderson 173
    - - Hence the appearance, late in the nineteenth century especially of ‘historical maps,’ designed to demonstrate, in the new cartographic discourse, the antiquity of specific, tightly bound territorial units. Through chronologically arranged sequences of such maps, a sort of a political-biographical narrative of the realm came into being, sometimes with vast historical depth.
        
        Colonial vs post colonial
        
        Dutch East Indies
        
        Philippines
        
        India
        
        Wars
        
        Korean War (38th parallel)
    - - US voting system; democrats vs republicans
    - - the logo-map penetrated deep into the popular imagination, forming a powerful emblem for the anticolonial nationalism being born - Anderson 175
      - No more information allows it to be mass produced
- - - - Colonisation