Emotional Cartography
Emotional Cartography – Technologies of the Self. Edited by Christian Nold, 2009.
This book is a collection of essays from artists, designers, psychogeographers, cultural researchers, futurologists and neuroscientists brought together by christian nold to explore the political, social and cultural implications of visualising people’s intimate biometric data and emotions using technology. PDF of entire book here.
What if instead of boring roads and rivers maps showed us the smells, sounds, tastes, and feelings we experience? Mix psychology with geography and maps and you have PsychoGeography:the art and science of using our bodies to collect (and map) all sorts of interesting and important stuff about the world, things that don’t normally get mapped.
Emotional Cartography – Technologies of the Self