Loop Maps

[city trials]

Who would allow this guy to draw an event loop section maps for the riders to use? This was posted in a forum for our neighborhood, I wonder if he would let me exibit my collection of loop maps?

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Thursday, October 14, at 8 pm:

Crisis Cartographies: Stratified Power and the Dynamics of the Swarm

The maps of Bureau d'Etudes use information graphics to portray something like an immanent cosmology of today's geopolitical system. They can give rise to a kind of excitement or even elation, because they deploy a network structure, where everything leads to everything else in an open labyrinth.

But at the same time, they provoke a feeling of dread, by forcing our

awareness of a crushing hierarchy, which is only visible at the uppermost

level. How do alternative or dissenting maps become possible, outside or even just below this cosmos of control?

This lecture is to explores a cartographic contradiction, between rigid

hierarchies and open networks, between maps of stratified power and diagrams of the swarm. Various kinds of cartographies will be considered -from network graphs and sociograms to the latest geo-paranoiac madness of the Pentagon.

Brian Holmes is an art and cultural critic, activist and translator, living

in Paris, interested primarily in the intersections of artistic and political

practice. He holds a doctorate in Romance Languages and Literatures from the University of California at Berkeley. He was the English editor of

publications for Documenta X, Kassel, Germany, 1997, was a member of the graphic arts group Ne pas plier from 1999 to 2001, and works with the French conceptual art group Bureau d'

Edited October 11, 2004 by City Trials

[brian r]

Did I see the words "Berkley and France" in there?

figures.