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Based on my doctoral thesis, this book draws on theories of real and social abstraction to theorize ‘cartographic abstraction’ as a distinctive modality of thought and experience constituted through the cartographic image. Revolving around close readings of selected contemporary artworks concerned with cartographic representational techniques, this research posits a series of ‘viewpoints’ as forms of cartographic abstraction. These viewpoints are shown to posit and construct the viewing subject in a range of embodied and de-embodied viewing positions, revealing cartography’s abstracting capacities as a form of social abstraction.
Chapters:
Introduction - From critical cartography to cartographic abstraction: rethinking the production of cartographic viewing through contemporary artworks (now available to read online)
Chapter One – Reconfiguring the view from nowhere: collage and complicity in Targets by Joyce Kozloff
Chapter Two – The drone’s eye view: networked vision and visibility in works by James Bridle and Trevor Paglen
Chapter Three – Remote viewing, cartographic abstraction and the antipodes: three works by Layla Curtis
Chapter Four – Signification in the soundscape: Bill Fontana’s River Sounding
Chapter Five – Cartographic abstraction: a material modality of thought and experience
ARTICLES & chapters
FORTHCOMING Digital Narcissism and GPS Selfies: The Entry of the Self (2023). In Routledge Handbook of Cartographic Humanities
NEW Seeing the Penal Colony Through Heritage Trail Maps: Global Connections and Local Views of the bagne in French Guiana and New Caledonia. (2023). In Framing the Penal Colony: Representing, Interpreting and Imagining Convict Transportation (pp. 133-151). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
‘Ways of seeing the penal colony: New caledonia and french guiana / façons de voir le bagne: la guyane et la nouvelle-calédonie’ (2021) Living Maps Review 11. Available at: https://www.livingmaps.org/claire-reddleman-mw-11
‘Sexual harassment on campus: an alternative view’ (2016) Wonkhe.com