Lecture: Lize Mogel and Alexis Bhagat - An Atlas of Radical Cartography

Today I was fortunate to attend the fourth 10 Minute lectures , held in DUMBO at the Melville House Bookstore . This lecture series previously featured Lewis Lapham, Forrest Hylton, and Rene Ortiz, and like Pecha Kucha the brevity makes for a pleasantly dense presentation. Today’s lecture was presented by Lize Mogel and Alexis Bhagat Editors of both the website and book, An Atlas of Radical Cartography ; a collection of maps and essays about global issues ranging from garbage to globalization, statelessness to visibility and deportation to migration. Their main contention is that all maps and the process of map making is inherently political, with the book’s contributors shedding the allegedly false sheen of objectivity. The book was previously reviewed by We Make Money Not Art . An Atlas of Radical Cartography shouldn’t be confused with Bill Rankin’s Radical Cartography , an equally worthwhile website. Mogel & Bhagat gave three simple definit...