Google Maps Horror Flick (The Googlization of Everything)

Filed under: Google Earth
Posted by Siva Vaidhyanathan, February 4, 2008 9:44 AM

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Anna Munster on March 19, 2008 10:24 PM:

Hi Siva,
We met very briefly at the New Network Theory Conference in Amsterdam, I think. I was also presenting on the first public day. I have written a very long article which will be published in July in an anthology with University of Toronto Press called 'Welcome to Google Earth'. It's probably too long to post here. It deals with the solipsism of Google Earth and the way its imaging production is intimately tied to a new conception and indeed making of social relations

Do you want a pdf of it?

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