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Thompson tells the reader about Paris and how it was designed to use the space that it is in. This further explains the concept that towns on maps are art, since the architect of the city designed/created it meaning it is their art. Yet, what if someone else had been chosen to design Paris? What if Paris looked different than the way it does now? It would change the way we see it. It would change the way we perceive Paris, but it would still be Paris, it would still be art, and it would still be a part of our lives today.
Space is defined in the English dictionary as the unlimited or incalculably great three dimensional realm expense in which all material objects are located and all events occur. Thomas defines space as everything that has been created up until today. Paglen defines "the production of space" as humans creating the world around them and in turn being created by the world around them. Therefore, space is not a place, but is actively produced. Paglen says that the world is simply made of stuff and only stuff mostly created and evolved over time by humans.
Going back to what Thompson said about water-treatment plants, we are what we create. Similarly, humans create the world around them and in turn are created by the world around them. Therefore, both have the same point, in my opinion, without humans' creations we do not evolve.
Signing Off For Now BBL,
AMT (is back in black)
Turns out I will be blogging again. I am writing a blog now for my DMS 121 course, and for those of you who are like OMG (again for those of you...Oh My God) I do not know what DMS stands for!? Well, DMS stands for Digital Media Studies. Which by the way is what I am majoring now (Media Studies). Yes, GASP I changed majors, but that is a longer story. Anyway, on to the real reason I started this blog today...
My reaction to reading Nato Thompson’s essay In Two Directions: Geography as Art, Art as Geography, and Trevor Paglen’s essay Experimental Geography.
Well, for one I agree with what both are trying to say. I think that Thompson is trying to say that maps are art and everything shown on a map (buildings, towns, roads, parks, factories, etc.) is what we are what we have created. Paglen also talks about maps, but he does not call them art. He simply says that maps are updated all the time by different people, proving what he is aiming at the entire time people grow with what they create/learn. Architecture is art, therefore cities are art. Also, maps are drawings, and drawings are art. Thus, I think that essentially our knowledge of the world and what it looked like was blank. When people went out and discovered the land we had maps of "blank" land. Soon after these maps begin to change as towns were made as more things began to grow. So, essentially the maps started out as a blank canvas of which the artist (map maker, architect, explorer, etc.) laid his art. Thompson says, "We are the water-treatment plant," meaning we (people, every one, every where) are the land. Since we have created the look of the land (man made land forms, etc.), and we have created the things on it such as the water-treatment plant. So, when he says this he simply means, we are what we make and what we create.
Thompson tells the reader about Paris and how it was designed to use the space that it is in. This further explains the concept that towns on maps are art, since the architect of the city designed/created it meaning it is their art. Yet, what if someone else had been chosen to design Paris? What if Paris looked different than the way it does now? It would change the way we see it. It would change the way we perceive Paris, but it would still be Paris, it would still be art, and it would still be a part of our lives today.
Space is defined in the English dictionary as the unlimited or incalculably great three dimensional realm expense in which all material objects are located and all events occur. Thomas defines space as everything that has been created up until today. Paglen defines "the production of space" as humans creating the world around them and in turn being created by the world around them. Therefore, space is not a place, but is actively produced. Paglen says that the world is simply made of stuff and only stuff mostly created and evolved over time by humans.
Going back to what Thompson said about water-treatment plants, we are what we create. Similarly, humans create the world around them and in turn are created by the world around them. Therefore, both have the same point, in my opinion, without humans' creations we do not evolve.
Signing Off For Now BBL,
AMT (is back in black)
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