English translation transcript of my conference given in French at the CERN Globe on September 22nd, 2022, and based on the eponymous book from 2019. Tonight, I propose to talk about two ideas, two concepts. The first one you already know: the concept of utopia. The other concept, which I propose to introduce, is the […]
Category Archives: Spaces
The impossible territory and the maps of the boyar Kraiensky
Figure 1 Overlapping territories of First Nations in the perception of their members. Screenshot from the geomatics site https://native-land.ca/ . Unstable borders are a cartographer’s nightmare. The simple task of reporting on demographic changes quickly becomes a headache in a country whose municipalities merge, divide, and even change their spatial contours according to the projects […]
The Bifurcation as a View of the Mind
Let us assume the existence of A and B, two points connected by a straight line which, if it extends beyond B, lets us imagine C, a point located anywhere on this imaginary line. C, then, can be said “in the continuity” of A and B. We’ll arrive at point C if we do not […]
Text2Landscape: Visualize a Text in Multiple Spaces with R — Force-directed networks, Biofabric, Word Embeddings, Principal Component Analysis and Self-Organizing Maps
You will find no realistic landscapes prior to the Renaissance. The saints of medieval murals float in a conceptual space informed by hierarchies and symbolic relations; so do those of the Prajñāpāramitā Sūtras. The word “landscape” appears with the Dutch painters of the 15th century. A landscape is a part of the world perceived by […]
Ressources web pour les géodonnées
Le travail de la cartographe consiste à combiner des données existantes avec de nouvelles connaissances. De nombreuses ressources sont désormais accessibles de manière dynamique – par connexion directe à la source – sous forme de points d’accès WMS, WFS, linked data etc. Une seconde partie de ce post est dédié à l’intégration de ces données […]
Ideograph – explore ideologies of political parties with SPAQRL requests to WikiData, D3 and PixiJS.
Ideograph is a visual tool for exploring ideologies of political parties. It queries its data directly from the frequently updated WikiData graph database. You can filter the graph by country, and find further information by clicking on the node labels. Ideograph is licensed under GNU GPL 3.0. Presentation Video I’ve presented IdeoGraph at the Wikidata […]
Mediatized Places in Wuhan – a Cartographic Attempt banned by Facebook
We’ve heared a lot about Wuhan (武汉), during 2020, for obvious reasons. Facts have a hard life on the battlefield of speculations, caught up in crossfire between pro-Trump propaganda channels (FoxNews, OANN, …) and Chinese state media. Scientists propose two hypotheses for the origin of the Covid-19: A zoonotic transmission from animal to human, traced […]
COVID-19 Coronavirus cases in absolute numbers and per capita – evolution
Graphics of the evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic. Updated regularly since March 31st. Source code for graphic production included. Excellent graphics of the evolution of the COVID-19 have been made by John Burn-Murdoch for the Financial Times or by Lisa Charlotte Rost for the Grand Continent (observatoire Coronavirus : tendances globales). Not only use they […]
L’instinct, la machine, l’empreinte
La machine est à la fois ce qui nous permet d’échapper à l’esclavage des besoins et ce qui nous y confine. Elle apparaît partout dans les Mille Plateaux de Deleuze et Guattari, mais je propose d’y réfléchir plutôt à travers la collection de textes rassemblés par Deleuze en 1953 sous le titre Instincts et Institutions. […]
Hypertopie dans la yourte: conférence augmentée
Le Livre sur les quais, samedi 7 août 2019. Avant de vous présenter le livre Hypertopie, et la traduction d’icelui dans une performance sonore conduite par Gwenaël Grossfeld, disons quelques mots sur le lieu où vous vous trouvez, étant donné qu’il y un lien entre ce lieu et notre performance. Car l’utopie, comme l’hypertopie sont […]