[HN Gopher] From Cartography to Code: Architectures of Power at ...
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       From Cartography to Code: Architectures of Power at the Venice
       Biennale 2025
        
       Author : bryanrasmussen
       Score  : 19 points
       Date   : 2025-07-19 08:18 UTC (3 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.stirworld.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.stirworld.com)
        
       | qsort wrote:
       | I'm obviously not qualified to judge the artistic value, but one
       | of the picture has a diagram where an arrow labeled "Perestroika"
       | connects a box labeled "Collapse of the Soviet Union" to the word
       | "Corporate mercantilism", which is itself inside a box containing
       | a triangular map of the world, several other words and the flag
       | of the European Union.
       | 
       | Holy shit, AWS infra diagrams make more sense.
        
         | thenthenthen wrote:
         | I am qualified and this purely a speculative 'mapping' in
         | broadest sense. Visually rich, useful in a sense that it is
         | useless (maps are objects of power, they want to show theyre
         | aware of this and maybe even critique this by producing a
         | useless map?). Anyway, I do not see this anymore than an
         | exercise in aesthetics (in a wannabe Simon Denny-ish way) and
         | not much more sadly.
        
       | cheschire wrote:
       | The visualization: https://calculatingempires.net/
        
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