Musings on Maps
Dystopian Diptychs: Virtual and Economic Realities of the Palisades Fires
The problem of mapping fires and fires spread in Los Angeles is increasingly taxing, both as they...
12th Oct 2025
The problem of mapping fires and fires spread in Los Angeles is increasingly taxing, both as they are exacerbated by the new weather systems of climate change–high, dry winds; dried trees; low groundwater–and was we lack the urban infrascture to … Continue reading →
Musings on Maps
“A Mighty Redwood Has Fallen”
Malcolm Margolin was the coolest people I knew. If we can’t be hugely saddened by his passing, and...
6th Sep 2025
Malcolm Margolin was the coolest people I knew. If we can’t be hugely saddened by his passing, and the loss of his dynamic presence in the East Bay, he’ll be a model for persisting a vision quest in a dark … Continue reading →
Musings on Maps
Expansionist Energies and Political Synergies: Unpacking the Brave New World of DOGE
Donald Trump has so skillfully adopted terms and coopted concepts by slapping his name on them to...
5th Jun 2025
Donald Trump has so skillfully adopted terms and coopted concepts by slapping his name on them to rebrand them as his own, in ways we may do well to question if this is entirely impulsively done. From CPAC to the … Continue reading →
Musings on Maps
“You Know,–It’s Over”
“I am looking at the whole Gaza Strip right now,” President Trump told Jordan’s Abdullah II, “and...
4th Feb 2025
“I am looking at the whole Gaza Strip right now,” President Trump told Jordan’s Abdullah II, “and it’s a mess. It’s a real mess.” Trump seemed not to consider the scale of American arms’ involvement in its destruction, but to … Continue reading →
Musings on Maps
The Office of the Geographer and Art of the Deal
There is plenty of blame going round this election cycle on the Democratic Party for having given...
4th Nov 2024
There is plenty of blame going round this election cycle on the Democratic Party for having given material assistance–if not tacitly supported–the bombing Palestinian inhabitants and settlements in Gaza by Israeli Defense Forces. The drumbeat of disquiet about the Democratic …...
Musings on Maps
Fifteen Two-Hundred Pound Bombs
Dropping at least fifteen two hundred pound bombs equipped with precision guidance systems–bunker...
2nd Oct 2024
Dropping at least fifteen two hundred pound bombs equipped with precision guidance systems–bunker busters that could penetrate deep underground and flatten built structures–that killed Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and much of his high command follows a terrifying explosion of...
Musings on Maps
“They’re Eating Dogs”
“If exotic non-human animals inhabited the edges of the inhabited world in medieval cosmologies,...
20th Sep 2024
“If exotic non-human animals inhabited the edges of the inhabited world in medieval cosmologies, it’s perhaps unsurprising that the MAGA candidate who has done much to resurrect the contours of theocratic Neo-medieval maps of the world is perpetuating stories of … Continue...
Musings on Maps
Maps and Metaphors
The war around Gaza is not for territory, but rather for the destruction of the presence of a terror...
1st Feb 2024
The war around Gaza is not for territory, but rather for the destruction of the presence of a terror network that has entrenched its power base deep underground. In many case, deeper than thought. While Israel has been pretty clear about … Continue reading →
Musings on Maps
Gaza, Again–and Again
The Gaza Strip’s spatiality continues to puzzle and fascinate–as much as the pressing question of...
10th Nov 2023
The Gaza Strip’s spatiality continues to puzzle and fascinate–as much as the pressing question of its sovereignty. The two are of course intertwined, and the boundaries of Gaza are historically defined. The perimeter around the Gaza Strip was in a … Continue reading →
Musings on Maps
Security Walls: “This is Just the Beginning”
Attending New Year’s service in an Oxford Orthodox synagogue, I paused when the ritual prayer book I...
27th Oct 2023
Attending New Year’s service in an Oxford Orthodox synagogue, I paused when the ritual prayer book I held–a Machzor-moved smoothly from prayers to George VI (it was an old one) to prayers for the Israel Defense Forces. The rabbi, who … Continue reading →
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