Exploring geospatial technology imaginaries
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| Abstract |
This chapter seeks to explore a new direction by outlining what could be the imaginary of geospatial techniques in the digital era. It focuses on the geospatial technical imaginary produced by creators of fiction, since it provides images and narratives that feed all of the other forges of sociotechnical imaginary. The chapter explores the fictional imagery associated with geospatial techniques, that is, the full range of literary, pictorial, cinematographic and other creative representations, that fiction makers propose to the public, to approach the imaginaries that underlie them. It presents a brief presentation of a collaborative encyclopedia that compiles spatial tropes, and reviews several catalogues of fictional uses of geographic tools. The chapter describes the imaginary that accompanied the emergence of a “geospatial hero” in the mid-2000s, before turning our attention to a fictional young man who gets lost in geolocation. |
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