Yusoff, Kathryn (2005) Visualizing Antarctica as a Place in Time. Space and Culture, 8 (4). pp. 381-398. ISSN 1552-8308Full text not available from this repository.
This article presents a chronogeographic account of the Antarctic spatialities that are inflected through the image of the RADARSAT map. Focusing on time as a spatializing operation within the visual geography of globalizing and globally available cartographies, the author questions the multiple geographies that must be considered in a geopolitical account of such a mapping. The subject of this topology is the “event” of the NASA RADARSAT map of Antarctica exhibiting the effects of global warming as a scientific and media event on the Web. Specifically the RADARSAT map documents destruction and also renders it innocuous through technologies of distance. This realization of geopolitical imperatives through scientific visualization reveals particular tensions and operations within Antarctic and global visual cultures. As a narrative cartography, it exhibits how geographic information systems operate in a plurality of visual regimes. The author concludes that the politics of visualizing Antarctica is embedded in the histories of its media production and in this reveals how time has a chronogeographic operation.
|Journal or Publication Title:||Space and Culture|
|Uncontrolled Keywords:||Visual culture ; Antarctica ; aesthetics ; Cold War ; Timespace geographies|
|Departments:||Faculty of Science and Technology > Lancaster Environment Centre|
|Deposited On:||29 Jul 2011 10:52|
|Last Modified:||20 Jan 2016 01:12|
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