Core Texts

Abrams, Janet and Peter Hall, eds. Else/Where: Mapping New Cartographies of Networks and Territories. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Design Institute, 2006.

Ulrich, Katherine. Macromedia Flash MX 2004 Visual Quickstart Guide. Berkeley, CA: Peachpit Press, 2003.

Other required articles are available on Morris Library’s e-reserve and listed in the bibliography below. In addition, students should make a habit of visiting the Web sites listed under resources.

Full Bibliography

Boyer, M. Christine. "Topographical Travelogues and City Views." The City of Collective Memory: Its Historical Imagery and Architectural Entertainments. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1994, 203-291.

Debord, Guy. "Theory of the Derive". Internationale Situationniste #2 (1958).

Friedberg, Anne. Window Shopping: Cinema and the Postmodern. Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1993, 1-38.

Fusco, Coco. "Questioning the Frame: Thoughts about Maps and Spatial Logic in the Global Present." In These Times, January 3, 2005, 30-32.

Glendinning, Chellis. Off The Map: An Expedition Deep Into Empire and the Global Economy. Gabriola Island, BC: New Society Publishers, 2002, 156-178.

Harvey, David. Space of Capital: Towards a Critical Geography. New York: Routledge, 2001, 208-233.

Holmes, Brian. Drifting Through the Grid: Psychogeography and Imperial Infrastructure. Springerin Issue 3/04 (2004).

_____. "An Egalitarian Culture". Meteors.

_____. "Flowmaps, The Imaginaries of Global Integration." Essay commissioned by Piet Zwart Foundation.

Jameson, Frederic. Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism. Durham: Duke University Press, 1991, 1-54.

Lefebvre, Henri. The Production of Space. Trans. Donald Nicholson-Smith. Malden, MA and Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 1991, 1-67.

Lippard, Lucy. On the Beaten Track: Tourism, Art, and Place. New York: The New Press, 1999, 12-23.

Manovich, Lev. "Data Visualisation as New Abstraction and Anti-Sublime." (2002) Forthcoming in Info-Aesthetics: Information and Form.

Merrifield, Andy. Henri Lefebvre: A Critical Introduction. New York and London: Routledge, 2006, xix-xxxiii and 99-120.

Pickles, John. A History of Spaces. London: Routledge, 2004, 75-91.

Shields, Rob. "Political Tourism: Mapping Memory and the Future in Québec City" in Hanna, Stephen P. and Vincent J. Del Casino Jr., eds. Mapping Tourism. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press: 2003. 1-27.

Rundstrom, Robert A. "Mapping, Postmodernism, Indigenous People, and the Changing Direction of North American Cartography. " Cartographica 28, no. 2 (1991): 1-12.

Toret, Javier and Nicolás Sguiglia. "Cartography and War Machines: Challenges and Experiences around Militant Research in Southern Europe." Translated by Maribel Casas-Cortés and Sebastian Cobarrubias. Transform. Posted April, 2006.

Tuters, Marc and Kazys Varnelis. "Beyond Locative Media." Networked Publics (Blog). Posted January 21, 2006.

Wood, Denis. "Map Art." Cartographic Perspectives. Number 53 (Winter 2006), 5-14.

_____. "Maps are Embedded in a History They Help Construct." The Power of Maps. New York and London: The Guilford Press, 1992, 28-47.

_____. "The Interest Is Embodied in the Map in Signs and Myths." The Power of Maps. New York and London: The Guilford Press, 1992, 95-142.

Varnelis, Kazys and Anne Friedberg. "Networked Place." Networked Publics (Blog). Posted June 19, 2006.

MCMA 516, Fall 2006 / Thursdays, 2-4:50 PM, COMM 9E / Recommended Lab: Thursday, 6-8 PM, COMM 9E
Prof. Sarah Kanouse / Office: Comm 1121K / Tues 1-3 PM; Wed 3-5 PM; Thu 8:30-9:30 AM, 1-2 PM / kanouse@siu.edu