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Emanuela Casti is Full Professor of Geography at the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literature of the University of Bergamo (Italy). She studies complex communication systems and has formalized the theory of cartographic semiosis that investigates the relation between cartography and territory (Reality as representation. The semiotics of cartography and the generation of meaning, Bergamo University Press, Bergamo, 2000) She has authored several essays and edited monographs, among which the recent: Cartografia e progettazione territoriale: dalle carte coloniali alle carte di piano, UTET, Torino, 2007; (with G. Bernini) Atlante dell’immigrazione a Bergamo, la diaspora cinese, Il lavoro editoriale / università, Ancona, 2008; Alla ricerca del paesaggio nelle rappresentazioni dell’altrove, Torino, Harmattan Italia, 2009; (with S. Yonkeau), Le Parc National d’Arly et la falaise du Gobnangou (Burkina Faso), Paris, Harmattan, 2009 (casti@unibg.it).
This article presents cartographic technologies as the locus where a new relationship between geography and cartography is envisioned. The starting point is that strictly positivist features, such as referential and quantitative information, ...
« Et pourtant, elle tourne ! » Telle est la phrase qu’aurait prononcée Galileo Galilei après avoir dû abjurer l’héliocentrisme face au Tribunal de l’Inquisition. En effet, si les théories héliocentriques qu’il ...
