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Charles B. Travis. Abstract Machine
Abstract. Machine. Humanities GIS
Contents
Preface: Abstract Machine
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Introduction
From Lascaux to the Sea of Tranquility
What is a GIS?
GIS and the digital humanities
Contents
Chapter 2. Toward the spatial turn
A brief history of Western geographical thought
Post-structuralist perspectives
Deep mapping
GIS and the space of conjecture
Chapter 3. Writing time and. space with GIS: The. conquest and mapping. of seventeenth-century. Ireland. Period, place, and GIS
Geovisualizing Irish history
Rebellion and conquest in 3D
Surveying the Cromwellian Settlement
William Petty and the Down Survey
From the ballybetagh to the barony
The Books of Survey and Distribution
Database mapping the Books
Visualizing the webs of history
Chapter 4. GIS and the poetic eye. Mapping Kavanagh
Bakhtinian GIS
Creating a digital dinnseanchas
Plotting the poetic eye
Chapter 5. Modeling and visualizing. in GIS: The topological. influences of Homer’s. Odyssey and Dante’s Inferno on James Joyce’s Ulysses (1922) Joycean cartographies
Homer and Dante’s topologies
Modeling Ulysses
The topologies of Ulysses
Upper Hell (1) Calypso, 8 a.m. (7 Eccles Street)
(2) Proteus, 11 a.m. (Sandymount Strand)
(3) Hades, 11 a.m. (Sandymount to Glasnevin Cemetery)
Middle of Hell (City of Dis) (4) Wandering Rocks, 2:55 to 4 p.m. (Dublin)
Lower Hell (5) Circe, 12 Midnight (Nighttown)
Purgatory (6) Ithaca (including Nostos’s journey through “Eumaeus”), 2 to 4 a.m. (7 Eccles Street)
Visualizing a “new Inferno in full sail”
Chapter 6. Psychogeographical GIS: Creating a “kaleidoscope. equipped with. consciousness,” Flann O’Brien’s. At Swim-Two-Birds (1939) The novel as urban GIS
Spatializing At Swim-Two-Birds
Psychogeographical mapping with GIS
Vico-Bakhtin timespaces
Counter-cartographical GIS
Chapter 7. Geovisualizing Beckett. Samuel Beckett’s GIStimeline
Geovisual narratology
Dublin-Paris, 1916–30
Beckett’s bottled climates
London,1933–35
France, 1945–46
Bricolage and biography
Chapter 8. The terrae incognitae of humanities GIS. The lost mapmaker
The map theater
The geographer’s science and the storyteller’s art
About the author
Index
