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Techs on TextsEpisode #4: Chris Beddow on Jorge Louis Borges and Umberto EcoChris Beddow, mapmaker, voyager, philosopher, and very good skier uses Borges's "On Exactitude in Science" and Umberto Eco's "On the Impossibility of Drawing a Map of the Empire on a Scale of 1 to 1" to go very very deep on the map–territory relationship. Listen and learn how to recognize how your experience on this planet is mediated by the maps you use.A few notes and links:Read Chris's essays at WorldbuilderChris's essay on The Fractal Map and Impossible SymmetryBuy Jorge Luis Borges's Collected Fictions"On Exactitude in Science" PDFBuy Umberto Eco's How to Travel with a...2024-05-301h 14