Farewell to Maps: Reformulating Critical Cartography in the Digital Age

Abstract

Even if the “critical cartography” movement has been decisive into opening a denaturalizing approach to maps, we argue in this chapter that it has failed into grasping all the consequences digital transition brought to its concepts, methods and objects. Nor maps, nor mapping nor critical cartography will have the same political dimension from now on. In this chapter, our purposes are threefold: to draw up a reasoned assessment of what the digital poses as new conceptual and methodological challenges to critical cartography; to point out some of the historical shortcomings of the field that have made it more difficult to analyze the new phenomena; to propose avenues of methodological aggiornamento that can better account for the new ways in which power and representations of space interact today. In short, to redo political cartography in the digital age.

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