When the map edits the territory
“A map is not the territory,” goes the famous dictum. In other words, a representation is different from the object it represents. It’s obvious, right? And yet I’m not so sure anymore.
Lately I’ve been wondering about the relationship between a document and object it documents. As Michael Buckland has written, some documents are made as documents, wherei…
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