Will-o'-the-wisp, map collection tours, hauntology and deep time spectres.
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https://doi.org/10.15353/acmla.n174.6016Keywords:
hauntology, production of space, dig where you stand, will-o’-the-wisp, graphite sedimentation, maps of loss, counter mappingAbstract
In renewing ways to navigate the uncharted institutional spaces of interred maps and their containers, recent William C. Wonders map collection tours and "top-of cabinet" displays have been crafted to open up ways to re-read cartographic renderings as apparitions, situating their re-inscription and retention in the spectres of deep time. By incorporating tactile ambience, aurals, and experiential movement, in-person tours aim to dislocate the map collection into Anthropogenic fragments (shales) and their impressions (fossils) that capture the uncanny energy embodiments of extractive dispossession, and the resulting wrack lines that continue to haunt the landscape.
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