1) In describing and advocating more open-ended forms of creativity, philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari declare: ‘Make a map not a tracing!’. What is the difference between the two and why is it important to understand the difference? (pg 214)
2) When looking at Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion map in comparison to a Mercator projection map, how do they compare and contrast? Why is it imporant to examine them in relation to each other? (pg 217)
3) Corner says that “Unlike paintings and photographs, which have the capacity to bear a direct resemblance to the things they depict, maps must by necessity be abstract if they are to sustain meaning and utility... such abstraction....(is) their virtue.” Do you agree with this? How does this relate to the two fables (by Jorge Luis Borge and Lewis Carroll) that Corner summarized? (pg 221-222)
4) Corner describes the operational structure of mapping as consisting of ‘fields’, ‘extracts’, and ‘plottings’. Of the three, he says that the set-up of the field is one of the most creative acts in mapping. Do you agree and if so, do you think this makes the field more important than either 'extracts' or 'plottings'? (pg 229)
5) Corner describes four techniques for mapping: drift, layering, game-board, rhizome. Which of these four do you think might lead to the greatest discoveries in mapping? Which technique do you think is the most abstract? (pg 231)
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