#maps
4 posts
- The Map That Became the Territory June 9, 2026
How the Mercator projection stopped being a navigation tool and started being what the world looks like.
- The Cartographer's Dilemma March 22, 2026
On why accurate maps are technically wrong, and what that says about every model of everything.
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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 Much March 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.