HERE, THERE AND NO WHERE

by Lorena Moreno Vera

The work of explorers and cartographers is remarkable, yet dubious: in the midst of the unknown, they somehow resolved to create a compendium of interpretive and organizational models that would try to embrace “reality” and give it a shape, a logic, and a name that would fit into their own terms. Nowadays, thanks to satellites and new technologies, it remains almost no doubt of how the Earth looks from afar, how every piece of territory is defined and delineated. Maybe they were nicer, those days of uncertainty.