cartography

Etymology

From French cartographie, from carte (“map”) (ultimately from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs, “map”)) + -graphie (“-graphy”) (, from γράφω (gráphō, “write”)); carto- + -graphy.

noun

1. (uncountable) The creation of charts and maps based on the layout of a territory's geography.
2. (countable, figurative) An illustrative discussion of a topic.
   In the early years of my psychedelic research, I sketched a vastly expanded cartography of the psyche that seems to meet this challenge. 2000, Stanislav Grof, Psychology of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research
   The Dalit feminist standpoint, and more specifically the national Federation of Dalit Women, provide in very clear terms a cartography of governance that forces an official reckoning of a new way of seeing. 2006, Nira Yuval-Davis, Kalpana Kannabiran, Ulrike Vieten, The Situated Politics of Belonging, page 69
   Since this cartography is not a representation of already existing spaces or cinematic forms but is rather oriented towards the new, it could be described as a cartography of the virtual; however, since Ruiz's work makes a point of departing from the normative rules of cinematic construction as a first principle, this book will outline Ruiz's cartography of images as a cartography of the impossible. 2013, Michael Goddard, The Cinema of Raúl Ruiz: Impossible Cartographies, page 1
   In short, the volume aims to provide the reader with the coordinates for current debates in global art and to develop a cartography of the various conceptual and methodological intersections that global art studies is addressing today. 2014, Anna Maria Guasch Ferrer, Nasheli Jimenez Del Val, Critical Cartography of Art and Visuality in the Global Age, page xvi