Inverse has an interview with iconoclastic cartographer Denis Wood,*in which he is*as thought-provoking as ever (e.g., “Maps are arguments about the way we think the world should be or could be. They are arguments made in graphic form.”). [via]
Not mentioned in the interview—but*mentioned in this 2014*Wired piece and in*Unmappable, a short documentary about Wood that is currently making the*rounds of the film festival circuit—is Wood’s 1996 conviction for sex with a minor*and subsequent prison term,*a fact that is public but not necessarily talked about openly*(despite blogging frequently about his work, I only learned about it through the*Wired piece) and makes discussing Wood and his work rather complicated: mention the fact and it overshadows, fail to mention it and it’s conspicuous by its absence. Either way, ignoring Wood is difficult.
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Not mentioned in the interview—but*mentioned in this 2014*Wired piece and in*Unmappable, a short documentary about Wood that is currently making the*rounds of the film festival circuit—is Wood’s 1996 conviction for sex with a minor*and subsequent prison term,*a fact that is public but not necessarily talked about openly*(despite blogging frequently about his work, I only learned about it through the*Wired piece) and makes discussing Wood and his work rather complicated: mention the fact and it overshadows, fail to mention it and it’s conspicuous by its absence. Either way, ignoring Wood is difficult.
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