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dc.contributor.authorLight, Jennifer S
dc.date.accessioned2018-06-05T18:15:47Z
dc.date.available2018-06-05T18:15:47Z
dc.date.issued2014-07
dc.identifier.issn1097-3729
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/116113
dc.description.abstractLaura Kurgan’s Close Up at a Distance examines the politics of digital spatial technologies, including Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Global Positioning Systems (GPS), and remote sensing—many with roots in American military and national security agency programs but now freely available as civilian tools. Kurgan, whose intellectual biography spans both the theory and practice of architecture and design, is particularly interested in questions about the relationship between reality and representation, especially the tensions between precision and ambiguity, raised by these technological tools. Her analysis proceeds on two fronts.en_US
dc.publisherJohns Hopkins University Pressen_US
dc.relation.isversionofhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1353/TECH.2014.0084en_US
dc.rightsArticle is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use.en_US
dc.sourceJohns Hopkins University Pressen_US
dc.titleClose Up at a Distance: Mapping, Technology and Politics by Laura Kurganen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.identifier.citationLight, Jennifer S. “Close Up at a Distance: Mapping, Technology and Politics by Laura Kurgan.” Technology and Culture, vol. 55, no. 3, 2014, pp. 769–70. © 2014 Society for the History of Technologyen_US
dc.contributor.departmentMassachusetts Institute of Technology. Program in Science, Technology and Societyen_US
dc.contributor.mitauthorLight, Jennifer S
dc.relation.journalTechnology and Cultureen_US
dc.eprint.versionFinal published versionen_US
dc.type.urihttp://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticleen_US
eprint.statushttp://purl.org/eprint/status/PeerRevieweden_US
dc.date.updated2018-06-04T16:23:31Z
dspace.orderedauthorsLight, Jennifer S.en_US
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dc.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-7366-6618
mit.licensePUBLISHER_POLICYen_US


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