The map hides the interdependence of regions and countries in many domains, and the ways in which the “developed” and the “developing” world interact with and affect each other. The stigmatization of certain countries suggests that the problem at hand has only “national roots,” narrowing the debate towards “national solutions” in the form of development.

Piani sul mondo appears to present itself as a complement (or even an objection) to the expanding technical, analytical practice of mapping literature.

Schizoanalytic Cartographies is an ambitious and thought-provoking book that provides a detailed exposition of Guattari’s version of schizoanalysis, a form of analysis that he extracts from the debris of a reductionist psychoanalysis.

Paradigms in Cartography is a philosophical book that examines cartography through the lens of Thomas Kuhn’s paradigm theory. The central question around which this text revolves is whether over the past century cartography has gone through a paradigm shift, or indeed through multiple paradigm shifts.

Oh dear, poor Geography, someone thinks they have rediscovered you again!