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  Jeffrey St. Clair: The Map is not the Territory
Jeffrey St. Clair: The Map is not the Territory
The New Physicists have a saying: the map is not the territory.
The highway maps help pump the mystique, splashing wide swaths of green across the state.
www.counterpunch.org /stclair12132003.html   (3189 words)

  
  Map/territory relation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The tale is the map that is the territory.
It is nevertheless the map that precedes the territory - precession of simulacra - that engenders the territory.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_map_is_not_the_territory   (1213 words)

  
 Principle #4: The Map is Not the Territory
This map is often called the ego by Western psychology, and is your concept of who you are and what your relationship is to the rest of the world.
It is the limitations of this map (its inability to adequately "map the territory") that creates the over-threshold experience and the resulting dysfunctional feelings and behaviors and other suffering I've discussed already.
Therefore, letting the map go through the evolutionary process (that of going into chaos temporarily and then reorganizing at a higher level) results in relief from the problems and limitations of the old map, and it gives you a new ability to deal with what was previously stressful or overwhelming.
www.edgenews.com /issues/2003/08/harris.html   (1512 words)

  
 MOON RIVER: "The map is not the territory"
Both in the selectivity of their content and in their signs and styles of representation, maps are a way of conceiving, articulating and structuring the human world which is biased towards, promoted by, and exerts influence upon sets of social relations.
The Map is not the Territory by Claudio Gatti "In the nineteenth century, as maps became further institutionalised and linked to the growth of geography as a discipline, their power effects are again manifest in the continuing tide of European imperialism.
There are innumerable contexts in which maps became the currency of political 'bargains', leases, partitions, sales, and treaties struck over colonial territory and, once made permanent in the image, these maps more than often acquired the force of law in the landscape." J.
mooonriver.blogspot.com /2006/10/map-is-not-territory.html   (599 words)

  
 Map or be mapped - mapping indigenous people's territory - includes related article Whole Earth - Find Articles
We all were taught: the map is not the territory.
Mapping of land-based commons -- mapping of, by, and for the people -- has been dubbed "counter- mapping," "community-based mapping" or "participatory mapping." The mapping toolkit comprises everything from maps scratched on the ground to high-tech GPS and GIS, and often assistance by outside NGOs or universities.
Neither folkloric nor orthodox maps are more "correct." Each represents a cultural interpretation of territory; each can be used to increase the usefulness of the other; each changes how residents and non-residents view their geography.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0GER/is_n94/ai_21260280   (731 words)

  
 Essays 5/04 - The Map is Not the Territory - by Lon Woodbury
Essays 5/04 - The Map is Not the Territory - by Lon Woodbury
The most prominent map we have is the DSM-IV, (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) a collection of diagnoses with their presenting characteristics, produced by the American Psychiatric Association, which is often referred to by schools and programs working with children with behavioral/ emotional problems.
A childcare worker who accepts the unexamined assumption that the map is the territory will probably miss other factors that might be even more important in the reality of any individual child, which will lead to what is commonly referred to as Misdiagnosis.
www.strugglingteens.com /archives/2004/5/mapnotterritory.html   (1137 words)

  
 The Map Is Not The Territory
Our maps are imprecise and limited, they vary from person to person even when they describe the same territory, and we all react to our maps not to the territory they represent.
Many of these people have maps so inaccurate they have to be hospitalised for their own safety, and sometimes the safety of the community.
The accuracy of your map is a measure of your sanity.
willpower.4mg.com /mapoftheterritory.html   (1696 words)

  
 NLP Presupposition: The Map is Not the Territory, by John David Hoag
NLP Presupposition: The Map is Not the Territory, by John David Hoag
There were specific areas where she was having difficulty, and from these she had somehow formed a neuro-linguistic map which said, "I never feel self-confident." It was as if she would look at this map, then look at the world around her, and wilt inside.
But as her confusion between her maps and what was 'real' began to lift, she began making some interesting map changes, creating a new matrix which not only let her through, it invited her forward, supported her and energized her as she made great strides in self-confidence.
www.nlpls.com /articles/mapTerritory.php   (1013 words)

  
 The Map is Not the Territory! Or Is It? - Pop Occulture
In time, those Unconscionable Maps no longer satisfied, and the Cartographers Guilds struck a Map of the Empire whose size was that of the Empire, and which coincided point for point with it.
the map is simply part of the territory, which just happens to have a certain degree of similarity to another part of the territory, such that one may be used to navigate the other.
then a map is interesting and useful precisely because it is simply a correlation between two parts of the same territory.
www.timboucher.com /journal/2005/12/09/the-map-is-not-the-territory   (2841 words)

  
 "Bridge/The Map Is Not the Territory." - modern sculpture, Arbeitsgemeinschaft Fleetinsel, Hamburg, Germany ArtForum - ...
It is difficult to talk about "territory" today: as a concept, it serves as a negative criterion, or a background against which urban life and social development can be displayed.
The recent exhibition "Bridge/The Map Is Not the Territory" was an attempt to renavigate this nonterritory.
The difficulty with an ambitious project like "Bridge/The map is not the territory" is that when a geographic area is transformed into the territory of discourse, the term "border" becomes superfluous.
findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0268/is_n4_v36/ai_20423115?...   (768 words)

  
 v-2 Organisation | news | Why the map is not the territory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Via the intrepid Jason Kottke, here's a geographically accurate map of the London tube network, more usually represented schematically thus.
In the contrast between the accurate mapping and Harry Beck's justly famous, never-bettered rendition, it's easy to see how the judicious introduction of deliberate distortion can be used to improve legibility - in visual systems, anyway.
Not merely the relationships between lines, but a certain sense of the psychological (as opposed to actual) distance between central and outlying stations, pop to the fore in Beck's diagram.
www.v-2.org /displayArticle.php?article_num=239   (172 words)

  
 bleepwatch » FE #001 [VA - the map is not the territory]
FE #001 [VA - the map is not the territory]
The territory of creative potential is nearly impossible to mark, neither to define and picture considering the number of artists and concepts.
For ‘The Map is not the Territory’ F.E.M. gathered 11 pieces by artists from the UK, France, Sweden, Ireland, Germany, USA and Japan.
www.bleepwatch.com /?p=1018   (193 words)

  
 Maps of the World, links to maps and map collections
Definition: Maps are abstract two-dimensional, geometrically more or less accurate representations of a three-dimensional space, like landscapes, oceans, mountains or cities etc..
the only flat map of the entire surface of the earth that reveals our planet as it really is, an island in one ocean without any visible distortion of the relative shapes and sizes of the land areas, and without splitting any continents.
Political map of Africa, the African states, the capitals and major cities of the continent.
www.nationsonline.org /oneworld/maps.htm   (722 words)

  
 ESA - Observing the Earth - ESA service makes customised maps available to African aid workers
But there is no detailed map of the Congo in the office library and it is too costly – and too long – to order a special reproduction of a new map when the team has no idea of the seriousness of the crisis.
As well as the classical functions of mapping navigation such as zooming in for detail or panning across a territory, the user is able to identify specific features such as roads, rivers, cities and airports – or topography – all displayed on the screen by accessing a database.
Once the customised map is ready, it can be integrated in a map template, displaying the organisation logo, name and additional information then downloaded in JPEG or PDF format, on sizes ranging from A4 to A0.
www.esa.int /export/esaEO/SEMVU7XJD1E_index_0.html   (735 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Map is not Territory: Studies in the History of Religions: Books: Jonathan Z. Smith   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
In Map Is Not Territory, Jonathan Z. Smith engages previous interpretations of religious texts from late antiquity, critically evaluates the notion of sacred space and time as it is represented in the works of Mircea Eliade, and tackles important problems of methodology.
Map is not Territory: Studies in the History of Religions by Jonathan Z. Smith
"For the dictum of Alfred Korzybski is inescapable: 'Map is not territory'--but maps are all we possess."
www.amazon.com /Map-not-Territory-Studies-Religions/dp/0226763579   (1609 words)

  
 Articles - Representational Systems
As input from the five senses is processed in the brain, it is translated into corresponding internal representations, or maps, that constitute a likeness to the outside world.
A persons map is an accurate reflection of that person's internal processing, yet it is an inaccurate and incomplete representation of the world.
The menu is not the meal, the map is not the city.
www.idea-seminars.com /articles/repsys.htm   (725 words)

  
 A Map is Not the Territory
In this Science and Sanity excerpt, Korzybski clearly articulates that as the map is not the territory, words are not the things they represent.
We could say that such a map was 'not true,' or that the map had a structure not similar to the territory, structure to be defined in terms of relations and multi-dimensional order.
D) An ideal map would contain the map of the map, the map of the map of the map, endlessly.
www.the-intuitive-self.org /website/author/memoir/supplements/map_territory.html   (462 words)

  
 The Map is NOT the Territory by Vikram Karve
This mental map is formed due to your values, beliefs and experiences and you tend to view the actual facts or events (territory) through mental filters based on your values, beliefs, biases, prejudices and experiences which form your mental map.
Remember, just like the actual physical geographical territory exists on the ground and its map is drawn on paper, actual facts and events happen in reality and each one of us interprets them depending on the different maps in our minds.
The secret of inner calm lies inside you, in developing the proper mental “maps” and correct attitude in your mind, so that you are not disturbed by the vicissitudes of external events which are akin to the outside “territory”.
www.boloji.com /perspective/128.htm   (672 words)

  
 The Planetary Collegium
These mapping agendas have great inertia and are even feeding on each others methods according to papers on Visualizing Knowledge Domains with Cartographic Means or Self Organizing Maps (SOM) given at the Arthur M. Sackler Colloquium in Irvine California.
If theory is regarded as being merely 'about' something else (the territory / objective reality) if indeed the map is not the territory, then it is rather a tool of intentionality.
When the map and territory are seen from the interactionist perspective, then navigation/exploration itself creates territory.
www.planetary-collegium.net /conferences/200411/abstracts/fields_18   (590 words)

  
 The Map is not the Territory
Even when we have reasonably accurate and complete representations of a territory, we are challenged to interpret them and understand their meaning -- what we should do about them.
The educator's e-mail maps a territory Americans scarcely see, from the point-of-view of a human being who sees the pain of children and neighbors caught in a circle of violence over which they have no control.
But we must have maps that delineate features we recognize in the real world, and that give hope of reaching destinations we agree are just and humane.
www.commondreams.org /views03/0601-01.htm   (1109 words)

  
 Classical Adlerian Concept Map: Style of Life - Alfred Adler Institutes of San Francisco and Northwestern Washington   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Since "the map is not the territory," one potential limitation is when it is used as a conceptual shortcut for gaining only a quick, superficial understanding.
Hopefully, these maps will be used as stimulants for deeper study--they have been extremely useful to on-site and distance training students at the Alfred Adler Institute of San Francisco.
Additional micro-concept maps will be posted that expand each theoretical construct and provide progressive levels of detail, as well as macro-concept maps that will illustrate the relationships of major constructs.
ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/hstein/c-map3.htm   (216 words)

  
 NLP 101: The Map Is Not The Territory - Life Coaches
NLP 101: The Map Is Not The Territory
But if the map isn’t the territory, that person could realize that belief isn’t etched in stone, but merely written on her map of the territory.
Contrast that with the opposite belief: that the map is the territory.
lifecoachesblog.com /2006/05/31/nlp-101-the-map-is-not-the-territory   (942 words)

  
 Mapper's delight: the London Underground diagrams
Geographical Tube maps: the map is not the territory
Privileging the map over the territory is Ken Kilfedder's London Underground Map with Distance Grids which morphs the underlying space to fit the grid.
Underground London, including 'lost' Tube stations, is represented in a map at the bottom of an article from Heritage Magazine, while a sideshift in transport generates a map of motorways in the London area or the UK (the latter by Gerald Higgins).
owen.massey.net /tubemaps.html   (1204 words)

  
 The Map is Not The Territory
Students of the philosophy of logic will no doubt remember that a map is only a representation of reality, and not reality itself.
Either way, it is very likely that if the road map goes through as planned, it may well be paved in part with the blood of those who do not wish peace to be achieved.
We cannot believe that our map is an accurate description of the territory unless we have explored it foot by foot to determine the truth.
www.intellectualconservative.com /article2404.html   (1128 words)

  
 topic maps vs rdf - The Map/Territory Conundrum in Topic Maps vs. RDF
At last week's Extreme Markup Languages 2001 conference in Montreal I heard the "map is not the territory" platitude invoked with monitory gravity at key moments in a number of arguments.
As it happened, it was Topic Map proponents in every case warning against what they saw as an inherent danger in RDF, but I have heard RDF diehards use the same argument to emphasize some fundamental distinction between the semantics of their predicates and the underlying instance syntax.
It is uniquely the nature of markup up text that the content and the commentary are interwoven in a particular lexical sequence that defines the instance, and that in processing that instance both the markup and the content are at their first handling manipulated by the same lexical tools.
www.stylusstudio.com /xmldev/200108/post20680.html   (485 words)

  
 topic maps vs rdf - Re: The Map/Territory Conundrum in Topic Maps vs. RDF
If the syntactic instance is considered the territory (an assumption that I am making, but you may not be), then the markup which is included in that instance is the basis for one of many possible maps to that territory.
That particular map is the elaboration of particular semantics from the syntax of the instance, including both the markup and any other instance content.
That map is certainly not the only possible map, gloss, structure or other opinion which might be constructed upon the non-markup content of that instance, and in fact may not be the only one which could be elaborated from that particular combination of markup and other content.
www.stylusstudio.com /xmldev/200108/post51070.html   (862 words)

  
 Morrison: The Musical Map - Charting the Unknown Territory of the Significant Form of Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
I am going to use the word "map" differently to argue that all art is an attempt at representation, at some level, and that it is precisely this inability of art to completely re-present the artistic impulse that gives art its potential for meaning.
The distinction between map and tracing drawn above is crucial to distinguishing between high art and entertainment art, and between the interactive mapping activity of productive critical reception and the tracing of passive reception.
That is, the inability to completely map or re-present anything of the world results in any attempt to do so becoming itself a new entity of the world, rather than a copy of something that already exists.
www.the-open-space.org /osonline/morrison/morrison.html   (2050 words)

  
 Bill Harris | Success Article |Nine Principles for Conscious Living: Principle Four: The Map is Not the Territory
Or, if the old map was created based on crude technology that could not create a really accurate map, and new technology, such as aerial photography, becomes available, you might want to get a new map.
As this process happens, almost all people try to protect the old map (your concept of who you are and how you relate to the rest of the universe) when this initial chaos stage of growth-where you begin to notice the old map isn't working so well-begins.
This attempt to hold the old map together is caused by the mistaken idea that this map is who you are-that the map really is the territory, rather than a just a tool you use to navigate through life.
www.healthywealthynwise.com /article.asp?Article=433   (1602 words)

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