Locative Space: Situated and Interconnected
From my NetPublics blog
While traditionally maps may have been a a form of visual knowledge generated by and for Imperial ideology, new practices of information technology begin to open up the practice of mapping to civic society.
My tracklog and my social network amount to a marketer's dream. To know where I am, is to know how to sell [to] me. This has led critics like Holmes and Crandall, to accuse locative media of being, in Andreas Broekman's terms , the avant garde of the Control Society.
Yet, as Deleuze states, "there is no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons".