Cognitive mapping

How individuals acquire, store, retrieve, and use information about their (spatial) environment.

Grapping with an unrepresentable totality? A response to disorientation? Representational strategies under/for late capitalism; permitting you to locate yourself within the system?

Conspiracy, one is tempted to say, is the poor person’s cognitive mapping in the postmodern age; it is the degraded figure of the total logic of late capital, a desperate attempt to represent the latter’s system, whose failure is marked by its slippage into sheer theme and content. — Frederic Jameson, “Cognitive mapping” (1988)

• [?] What are the limitations of cognitive mapping as a theoretical and practical tool?

Tags: epistemics

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