Mapping essay

1. What is this essay about?
2. How could it be used to help us "map the urban space" of Neuromancer?
3. Locate a specific quote, paragraph or section that could be used to help you map that space. 
4. In groups, present the general argument of that section, and discuss how it would be used in a proposal for a map of Neuromancer's urban space. 

1.  This essay is about the definition of mapping, the history of mapping, the use of mapping, the changes of mapping, the architect of mapping, the positive and negative facts about mapping, the science of mapping, the philosophy of mapping, quotes from famous mappers of mapping, and the time and space of mapping. 

2. It helps the reader to understand what the city of Neuromancer looks like. It gives specific details in where we are heading and entering in the space and time of Neuromancer. But the new details and the changes in the city, places, and rides describes the addition of mapping to Case and Molly. 

3. "The experiences of space cannot be separated from the events that happen in it; space is situated, contingent and differentiated. It is remade continuously every time it is encountered by different people, every time it is represented through another medium, every time its surroundings change, every time new affiliations are forged. Thus, as David harvey has argued, planners and architects have been barking up the wrong tree in believing that new spatial structures alone would yield new patterns of socialization. The struggle for designers and planners Harvey insists, lies not with spatial form and aesthetic appearances alone (the city as a thing) but with the advancement of more liberation processes and interactions in time (urbanization)" (227). 

 

classmates: 

1. -summary of the whole thing and the analysis of it

-books and films are part of a cultural understanding of space; all these layers to see the world (214)

-maps can change, not necessarily permanent "Thus, mapping unfolds potential ... and diverse consequences" (10)

-mental imaginative images of space

-mapping agency: power, controlling, delineating border, cultural project in imagination and images and stories, emancipate= to free

citations: 

-book: you italicize 

-essay: you quote