[p2p-research] Fwd: "bio-power" mapping ? - Cartography of migration flows

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson at gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 10:31 PM
Subject: "bio-power" mapping ? - Cartography of migration flows
To: Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>, Shailoh Phillips <
shailohphillips at gmail.com>


http://mastersofmedia.hum.uva.nl/2010/04/27/cartography-of-migration-flows/

" power of information society has shifted its focus from territory to
population (biopower). Consequently, mapping has been reconsidered not only
in terms of production of space and place, but also people who inhabit that
space (Pickles, 2002). Furthermore, ‘mapping’ no longer refers only to
physical and geospatial but has extended to other social phenomena such as
social networks, socio-political relationships between actors, email
conversations, militarization etc. We are presented with a new challenge –
to visualize / map new mobilities of people, information and goods (or what
Castells <http://www.manuelcastells.info/en/> calls ‘network societies’ and
Apadurai <http://www.appadurai.com/>“cultural flow’).

According to Crampton <http://monarch.gsu.edu/jcrampton/> critical mapping,
which highlights the politics of mapping is one of the current cartography
trends. This trends reflects in migration cartography, where critical
mapping has become a tool of counter-knowledge, “a polemical weapon’, in an
effort to influence political debates and policies points Williams
Walter<http://www2.carleton.ca/eurus/faculty-and-staff/research-associates/walters-william/>.
In the article “The contested Cartography of ‘Illegal Immigration’, he is
concerned with how cultural practices and in particular mapping and
cartography relate to anti-political economy. "

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From: geert lovink <geert at desk.nl>
Date: Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 11:29 PM
Subject: Re: [-empyre-] Tactical Media; this week's guests
To: soft_skinned_space <empyre at lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au>


Hi all,

interesting debates. Sorry to come back to the activist approaches of my
previous mail.

Here a link to a blog posting by one of our MA students at new
media/mediastudies of the University of Amsterdam. The blog of our one year
masters program is called Masters of Media.

The topic is carthography of migration.

http://mastersofmedia.hum.uva.nl/2010/04/27/cartography-of-migration-flows/

Best, Geert




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