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Wayfinding versus mapping

The opposition between Enlightenment-era cartographic overview and embodied, processual navigation -- the island coming to the canoe rather than the canoe to the island.

Appears in 9 texts

2026-04-06 On Wayfinding "Did they go to the Islands or the Islands go to them? From the map's perspective, the former, from the wayfinding Polynesian's canoe, the latter."2025-11-22 A mutual aid map for New Yorkers "We should organize our directory by both space and time."2025-01-21 The Broadway Junction Sublime "One slips readily from one liminal zone to the next, like flipping the pages of a book."2024-10-30 Planetary Realism "millions of cameras cast to the wind"2024-09-08 The Network is the Territory "the map starts to shape the territory"2024-08-04 Associative tools, thinking, and creativity "navigating and expanding their associative horizons"2024-07-19 Semioscape.org ✨ "map out a conceptual landscape of psychoanalysis"2024-07-12 Associative data structures "traversing the model's inner associative networks"2024-06-25 Networks and meaning "meta-associations reflect relevance, specificity, coherence"