{"id":17,"date":"2020-09-18T01:03:24","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T01:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimclarke.net\/?page_id=17"},"modified":"2021-12-15T08:06:47","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T08:06:47","slug":"speculative-geographies","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/speculative-geographies\/","title":{"rendered":"Speculative Geographies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Why do people invent worlds? Largely, because they wish to tell stories set in them. This process, known as worldbuilding, informs everything from fiction to videogaming, and underpins a lot of ontological and logical philosophy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why, however, do they so often also map them? What are the purpose of maps of non-existent places? What purpose, in other words, do such maps serve?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My current research project is looking into this, and is a while away from completion yet, but as a comic prelude, do enjoy this paper on <a href=\"https:\/\/irispublishers.com\/aomb\/abstract\/speculative-oceanography-an-historical-survey.ID.000528.php\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/irispublishers.com\/aomb\/abstract\/speculative-oceanography-an-historical-survey.ID.000528.php\">Speculative Oceanography<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I do have a study of how the concept of North is codified in fantasy literature in this <a data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"http:\/\/www.brepols.net\/Pages\/ShowProduct.aspx?prod_id=IS-9782503585024-1\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brepols.net\/Pages\/ShowProduct.aspx?prod_id=IS-9782503585024-1\">collection of essays<\/a>, which used corpus linguistics methodologies to identify how the idea of North is reified as much as it is invented in those texts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another way of speculating about geography is via uchronia, or alternative histories. As a case study on this, I&#8217;ve been examining how alternative locations for a Jewish state, from both within and outside the Zionist movement, have been depicted in fiction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do people invent worlds? Largely, because they wish to tell stories set in them. This process, known as worldbuilding, informs everything from fiction to videogaming, and underpins a lot of ontological and logical philosophy. Why, however, do they so often also map them? What are the purpose of maps of non-existent places? What purpose, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/speculative-geographies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Speculative Geographies&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-17","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/PcnZAt-h","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":384,"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions\/384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}