Chris Beddow, mapmaker, voyager, philosopher, and very good skier uses Borges’s “On Exactitude in Science” and Umberto Eco’s “On the Impossibility of Drawing a Map of the Empire on a Scale of 1 to 1” to go very very deep on the map–territory relationship. Listen and learn how to recognize how your experience on this planet is mediated by the maps you use.

A few notes and links:

• Read Chris’s essays at Worldbuilder
• Chris’s essay on The Fractal Map and Impossible Symmetry
• Buy Jorge Luis Borges’s Collected Fictions
• “On Exactitude in Science” PDF
• Buy Umberto Eco’s How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays
• “On the Impossibility of Drawing a Map of the Empire on a Scale of 1 to 1” PDF
• “Raised by Wolves” by Simon Rich
• Psychogeography on Wikipedia