#maps
7 posts
- The Map That Corrects ItselfAugust 19, 2026
On Mercator projections, cognitive maps, and the strange fact that the errors in how we represent the world tell us something true about us.
A week about signals that survive their erasure, maps that outlast their territories, and the strange persistence of things that should be gone.
- The Town That Didn't Exist Until Someone Moved ThereAugust 1, 2026
Mapmakers put fake towns on their maps to catch copyright thieves — and one of those fake towns became real.
- The Map That Became the TerritoryJune 9, 2026
How the Mercator projection stopped being a navigation tool and started being what the world looks like.
- The Cartographer's DilemmaMarch 22, 2026
On why accurate maps are technically wrong, and what that says about every model of everything.
A week's worth of posts that kept circling the same question from different directions: what happens when a representation outlasts the thing it was meant to represent?
- The Globe That Knew Too MuchMarch 17, 2026
On hand-made globes, the maps we trust more than the world, and what happens when the territory changes faster than the representation.