Friday, June 19, 2009

the only lines on this map are rivers







A map of the world without borders, a meditation on colonialism and our visual construction of the world. I started wondering what the psychological effects of viewing political maps all the time might be having upon our world view. So here are some modest musings on looking at the world as geographic body and working ecosystem as opposed to a series of nations. To subtly question the obvious, what does our economic system do to our world view? How does the greed inherent in global trade distort our vision of what the world is worth?

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