Blake Butler: Is there anything you think of as unmappable?
\nDenis Wood: To map something meaningfully, it has to have some kind of areal expression. It can\u2019t be uniformly dispersed in space. The USGS maps everything in the United States and it doesn\u2019t matter. There\u2019s a famous USGS sheet\u2014maybe there\u2019s more than one\u2014devoted to the Great Salt Lake. It\u2019s completely blue. There\u2019s not a differentiating mark whatsoever. It\u2019s just water, right? That\u2019s obviously preposterous. Only somebody obsessively compiling the universe would produce a map like that. If the phenomenon is differentiated spatially, then it can be mapped. And if it can be mapped, I guess the question would be: Can you find and collect the data that would differentiate the phenomenon? And is it worth making a map of? Is it something that\u2019s interesting? To answer your question, no, I don\u2019t think so. I think mapping things is usually good. It lets sunshine in, though I suppose there plenty of microbes that don\u2019t like the sun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Blake Butler: Is there anything you think of as unmappable? Denis Wood: To map something meaningfully, it has to have some kind of areal expression. It can\u2019t be uniformly dispersed in space. The USGS maps everything in the United States and it doesn\u2019t matter. There\u2019s a famous USGS sheet\u2014maybe there\u2019s more than one\u2014devoted to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"chat","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-chat","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-chat"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-3ZM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}