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x059c53704n	Brenna M. Casey	The Map Precedes the Territory: Essays of Place	2010		.txt	text/plain	151	5	40	In short, these essays, I think, encapsulate revelatory moments enjambed in everyday life, singular experiences that imbue all else. 'Such maps require us to distance ourselves,' writes the cartography scholar Michael Gaudio, 'from modern mapping practices with their 'transparent' schematizations of objective space, so that we can recognize this cartography for what it is -- 'not a primitive version of our own but a positive form of organizing space in a world in which signs are not tied to their referents and meanings are never final.'	cache/x059c53704n.txt	txt/x059c53704n.txt