TODAY’S AGENDA:
- GUESTS: Johanna Drucker, Breslauer Professor of Bibliographical Studies @ UCLA, author of Visualization and Interpretation: Humanistic Approaches to Display, and Graphesis: Visual Forms of Knowledge Production, among many, many other books; Rasheedah Phillips, Creative Director, AfroFuturist Affair, and Managing Attorney of the Landlord-Tenant Housing Unit at Community Legal Services of Philadelphia; Mark Rifkin, Professor of English and Women’s and Gender Studies @ UNC, author of Beyond Settler Time: Temporal Sovereignty and Indigenous Self-Determination, and The Erotics of Sovereignty: Queer Native Writing in the Era of Self-Determination, among other books; and Daniel Rosenberg, Professor of History @ University of Oregon, co-author of Cartographies of Time: A History of the Timeline, author of Histories of the Future
- Map Critiques #6 (2 people): Erin, Cate
TO PREPARE FOR TODAY:
- Daniel Rosenberg & Anthony Grafton, “Time in Print” in Cartographies of Time: A History of the Timeline (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2010): 10-25 [recall that you’ll be prompted to log in to access copyrighted readings].
- Johanna Drucker, excerpt from “The Projects in Modeling Interpretation, or, Can We Make Arguments Visually?” in Visualization and Interpretation: Humanistic Approaches to Display (MIT Press, 2020): 111-19 or Johanna Drucker, “Local Time: A Challenge or Visualization ,” Brown Institute, Columbia University (October 30, 2020) < video: 1:13:24 >.
- Rasheedah Phillips, “Toward a Temporal Rezoning: Unmapping the Time Zones,” Vera List Center (October 8, 2020) < video: 1:04:34 >. Rasheedah has also asked you to review the following:
- Rasheedah Phillips “Placing Time, Timing Space: Dismantling the Master’s Map and Clock,” The Funambulist 18 (July-August 2018).
- Community Futures Lab
- BlackWomxnTemporal
- Mark Rifkin, “Indigenous Orientations,” Beyond Settler Time: Temporal Sovereignty and Indigenous Self Determination (Duke University Press, 2017): 1-47.
…..Explore Some TimeMap Examples:
- Skim through the “Timeline Maps” in the David Rumsey Map Collection (March 29, 2012), as well as the “Space and Time” and “Exploring Time” sections of the Center’s 2020-21 “Data Visualization and the Modern Imagination” exhibition.
- Space/Time Directory [project mothballed in 2017?].
Supplemental Resources:
- **Stephen Boyd Davis & Florian Kräutli, “The Idea and Image of Historical Time: Interactions Between Design and Digital Humanities,” Visible Language 49:3 (December 2015).
- Johanna Drucker & Bethany Nowviskie, “Temporal Modeling” In Drucker, ed., SpecLab: Digital Aesthetics and Projects in Speculative Computing (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009); reprinted in Chicago Scholarship Online, 2013.
- Matthew Hanchard, “Digital Maps and Anchored Time: The Case for Practice Theory,” in Lammes, Perkins, Gekker, Hind, Wilmott, and Evans: 154-172 [proposes an ethnography of map use].
- Sybille Lammes, Chris Perkins, Alex Gekker, Sam Hind, Clancy Wilmott, and Daniel Evans, eds., Time for Mapping: Cartographic Temporalities (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018).
- Charles W. Mills, “The Chronopolitics of Racial Time,” Time & Society 29:2 (2020).
- Rethinking Timelines Project @ University of Sydney.
- Daniel Rosenberg, Time Online, University of Oregon.
- Speculative Timelines research group.
- Time Layered Cultural Map
- **Kären Wigen and Caroline Winterer, Time in Maps: From the Age of Discovery to Our Digital Era (University of Chicago Press, 2020).
Thumbnail: Ancient Mexican cosmogram in Codex Tezcatlipoca (Fejervary-Mayer), via Universiteit Leiden