Neuromancer and "The Agency of Mapping"

The Agency of Mapping

  The essay is about different ways to map through layering and composing, and how people uses map. It first explains how mapping is the excavation of the things that are not shown in real world. Instead of just a rendering of the physical outline, the map can focus on a main theme and show us the one functional purpose of the place. For example, it could be a political propaganda through the hierarchical scale of continents. “This remarkable image reminds us of the ways in which habitual conventions condition spatial hierarchies and power relations.” p. 218 Economic and history could be other themes that play as the theme. 

Mapping’s purpose is to show the invisibles and the hiddens where complicated are made simple and extended.  We can have a social hierarchical scaled map for Neuromancer according to its importance. “Thus, mappings do not represent geographies or ideas; rather they effect their actualization.”

-Thickening of our experience of space

P. 223, 227