Newly
in Paperback:
Routledge has just released a paperback
edition of Rethinking Maps.
It has John Krygier and Denis's "C'est
ne pas le monde" – the "comic
book" – in it. It's not only
a third the original price, but it feels
better in the hand. For a completely
free version of the comic, click
here.
Interview:
In the January 2012 issue of The
Believer, Blake Butler speaks
with Denis about Google Maps, Civil
War battlefields, Philip Pullman’s
The Golden Compass, and the
unexpected ways in which maps dictate
our daily lives.
Review:
Denis' scorched-earth review of ESRI's Children
Map the World: Selections from the Barbara
Bartz Petchenik Children's World Map Competition,
Volume 2 has just been published in Cartographica.
Click
here.
Presentation
(Follow-Up):
Denis presented “Picturing Dogma:
Kids Drawing the Earth” at the
II International Colloquium on Education
through Images and their Geographies
(7-11 November) at the University of
São Paulo (Brazil). The four
day conference was both intense and
stimulating. The proceedings will be
published.
Interview:
Sébastien Smirou's interview
with Denis, "La carte et le poème"
(entretien avec Denis Wood), appears
in the French literary magazine LIGNE
13.
Four
New Maps. Places/The Design Observer
has posted a feature about Denis' neighborhood
maps on their blog that includes four new
maps made especially for Places. Check it
out at http://places.designobserver.com/
Thai
Edition. Seeing Through
Maps: Second Edition has just been
translated into Thai and brought out
by the Kobfai Publishing Project of
the Foundation for Democracy and Development
Studies in Bangkok (http://www.oknation.net/blog/kobfai/category/015).
Presentation
(Follow-Up): Denis keynoted the Mapping
Democracy: Technology, Social Change, and
Web 2.0 conference in Boulder, Colorado,
September 8. The next day he presented "The
Anthropology of Cartography" at a colloquium
in the University of Colorado's geography
department. The following week he spoke at
the 2011 World Human Geography Conference:
Communities and Ethics, 15-16 September,
at Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence,
Kansas. The conference was hosted by Haskell,
the American Geographical Society, and the
University of Kansas – and paid for
by the U.S. Army – in an attempt to
burnish the reputation of the AGS/FMSO's badly
tarnished Bowman Expeditions. It failed spectacularly
in the effort.
Wilbur
Zelinsky reviews Everything Sings
for the Annals. For
the Annals review click
here. For other reviews click
here.
New!Visualisation Magazine Vol. 4 (The handmade
volume) has just published an Everything
Sings feature. You can see the whole
issue or just the Everything
Sings
pages alone. On the last two pages the
editor displays original sketches from "The
Night Sky" map arranged to form a horizon.
All the original sketches that turned into
"The Night Sky" map horizon are
posted at siglioblog.
INTERVIEW:
Denis expands on the concluding chapter of
his Rethinking the Power of Maps
in this interview with Linda Quiquivix about
maps and space in Israel and Palestine. Click
here.
Poetry
in Place - a new review of Everything
Sings in the Portland Monthly.Click
here.
Review
in Verse: Vincent Del Casino (California
State University, Long Beach), has written
a review of Everything Sings and
Making Maps in verse. In press in
the Yearbook of the Association of Pacific
Coast Geographers, 2011. Click
here.
Unpublished
Working Drawings. See some of the
unpublished working drawings from Everything
Sings at the Siglo blog. Siglio will
be adding to these in coming months. Click
here and here.
Hear
Denis Discuss Everything Sings.
In April, Denis spoke at the Elliott Bay
Book Company in Seattle, Washington about
his new book, Everything Sings: Maps
for a Narrative Atlas.
Recent
Press.Essay Daily addresses
"What I Think Denis Wood Means When He Says
"Everything". Click
to read. And Fringe Magazine interviews
Denis about about the nature of maps and the history
of the Boylan Heights mapping project. Click
here.
New
Book! -- The exciting second edition of
John Krygier and Denis's best-selling visual guide
to map design for GIS, Making Maps, has
just been released by Guilford. Translation: Korean.
Click
here to order.
Paul
Longley, Department of Geography, University College
London, and lead author of Geographic Information
Systems and Science by Longley, Goodchild, Maguire
and Rhind, says:
Krygier
and Wood's book should be used by anyone interested
in the way the world looks, the way the world works,
or the way the world should be. It remains the most
accessible yet comprehensive guide of its kind. The
second edition meets the needs and expectations of the
"Google generation" of map users while remaining
true to the guiding principles that govern how maps
look, work, and function. The very accessible, extensively
illustrated format makes the book easily usable by students
at all levels, as well as those taking steps to develop
expertise in cartographic design.
James
Meacham, InfoGraphics Lab Director, University of Oregon
says:
Building
on their solid first edition, Krygier and Wood have
created a new and much richer follow-up. The second
edition represents a serious reworking of subject matter
and graphics. The book uses extraordinary map exemplars
to address the full range of basic cartographic concepts
and to demonstrate many subtle and advanced design techniques
as well.
New
translation! The Thai translation of Denis, Ward
Kaiser, and Bob Abramms' Seeing Through Maps
has just been released by Kobfai! Here's a shot of the
Kobfai booth at the Thailand bookfair, with Seeing
Through Maps the tilted up book on the right. Click
here to order book in English. / Click
here for Kobfai Publishers.
Everything
Sings has just been nominated for this year's The Essay
Prize from the University of Iowa.Click
here for more information.
Everything
Sings
Distributed Art Publishers (D.A.P.)/ Artbook.com has
released Denis' Everything Sings: Maps for a Narrative
Atlas (with an introduction by Ira Glass) (Siglio
Press) Click for the page
from the D.A.P. catalog.
In
pursuit of a poetics of cartography, Denis Wood has
created an atlas unlike any other. Surveying Boylan
Heights, his small neighborhood in North Carolina, he
subverts the traditional notions of mapmaking to discover
new ways of seeing this place, the people who live there,
and the nature of “place” itself. Together,
these maps tell a story rich with poetic resonance.
Individually, each creates an attentiveness to place,
attuning the eye to the invisible and overlooked in
order to reveal its significance. As he looks for ways
to map what has never been mapped or what may not even
be mappable, an extraordinary tension arises between
the empirical and the elusive, between what one can
know and what one can imagine.
Excerpts
from Denis's famous 1986 paper, written with John Fels,
"Designs on Signs: Myth and Meaning in Maps,"
have just been published in Martin Dodge, Rob Kitchin,
and Chris Perkins' The Map Readrer: Theories of Mapping
Practice and Cartographic Representation, by Wiley,
2011, pp. 48-55
The just published book Geographic Information: Systems
and Science, Third Edition, by Paul Longley, Michael Goodchild,
David McGuire, and David Rhind features a bio page on Denis
Wood. Click here to see the page.
New
Book! - Denis's new book, from Guilford Press, Rethinking
the Power of Maps, has just been published. Click
to order.
Rethinking
the Power of Maps
A contemporary follow-up to the bestselling Power of Maps,
this book takes a fresh look at what maps do, whose interests
they serve, and how they can be used in surprising, creative,
and radical ways. Denis Wood describes how cartography facilitated
the rise of the modern state and how maps continue to embody
and project the interests of their creators. He demystifies
the hidden assumptions of map making and explores the promises
and limitations of diverse counter-mapping practices today.
Thought-provoking illustrations include U.S. Geological Survey
maps; electoral and transportation maps; and numerous examples
of critical cartography, participatory GIS, and map art. Translation:
Korean.
Nicholas
Chrisman, Department of Geomatic Sciences, Université
Laval, says:
"Rethinking
the Power of Maps sharpens the argument of Wood's earlier
work and focuses its attention on the construction of power.
Every student of cartography should take notice."
Chris
Perkins of the University of Manchester says:
The new
edition of the Power of Maps retains the essential
core of the first edition, but incorporates important and
optimistic new material: it will stand out as the culmination
of a lifetime’s writing. In an age when mapping is sexy
again Wood explains why it should matter to everyone, explores
how maps came to be deployed by states, and how the authority
of the image is now being used by many different voices. This
is a carefully developed humanist argument for a critical
approach to mapping, strongly academic, but reassuringly accessible.
Denis Wood’s work always challenges – the passionate
style and panache of his scholarship carries the reader along
and persuades us to listen to his original ideas. Mapping
and counter-mapping are brought together for the first time.
Researchers and students across the social sciences, and indeed
from all disciplines, should read this book and take its lessons
to heart!
