maps colour our view of the worldThe Concept From human scale it is difficult to capture a complete view of the world physically. We conceptualise it based on representations, and so maps yield a disproportionate influence on how we conceptualise national borders, politics and geographies. Notes cartographers hold a surprisingly huge amount of power by extension, the tech companies who now are the main source of maps projections centering different nations prioritising malling certain locations eg Google street view disparity prioritising collecting certain kinds of data, not utilising public local knowledge, or revealing private local knowledge past its usual bounds, etc we are unable to conceptualise the whole earth as it is so any representation essentially becomes it political boundaries made more concrete by mapping, and natural boundaries de-emphasised whoever makes the map makes the world indigenous knowledge, colonialism, erasing meaning and names and local identities, crushing all power and authority of indigenous people find an American map with indigenous groupings ...