Today we are surrounded by maps of all sorts. As a result of their integration into everyday practices, cartographic images have become ever more ubiquitous and accessible. This pervasiveness has made the map the privileged medium for interrogating the transformations of our spatial consciousness and geographical imagination. But does it really deserve this status? What is the relationship between our conceptions of spatiality and the medium of the map? And what does it mean to read the history of space through the lens of cartography? The essays collected in this volume and written by specialists in geography, philosophy, architecture, film theory, literary studies, and visual culture address these questions by focusing on the mediality of maps and map- ping. They converge upon a fundamental point: a medium not only mediates between two or more elements but also remediates by appropriating the techniques, forms, and social significance of other media. This point has implications for investigating the history of space through the prism of the map’s mediality. First and foremost, it means adopting a transmedial approach, emphasizing the processes of remediation, and exploring the relationships between the map and other media, supports, or devices, such as texts, books, films, paintings, urban plans, and landscape views.

Introduction, Tanja Michalsky, Tommaso Morawski - A Matter of Interpretation: Premodern Christian and Jewish Maps of the Holy Land, Pnina Arad - Views like Maps: on a Late Eighteenth-Century Idea of Making Spaces Completely Available Through Images, Tabea Braun - Du Bellay: Travel in the Void of Verse, Tom Conley - Tracing the Lineage in a Modernizing Landscape: five Diptychs of a Village in the Pearl River Delta, China, Hong Wan Chan - Cities of Collective Memory: the Architectural Map of Roma Interrotta as Conceptual Archaeology, Ioanna Angelidou - Roma quadrata: Angelo Colocci, Raphael and the Stanza della Segnatura as a map – Renaissance Urban Thinking and the Art of Memory, Giorgio Mangani - The Space of the List: Mapping Domestic Inventories, Michal Lynn Shumate - Spatiality, Territoriality, Places: Cartography Around the Film Parasite, Marco Maggioli, Marcello Tanca - ›Google Through the Stereoscope‹. Re-Mediationen von Underwood & Underwoods Kartennavigation am Beispiel Norwegen, Eva Wattolik - Mappe senza territori. Derive dell’arte in Google Street View, Pasquale Fameli - Neither Vision Nor Visualisation: Satellite Imaging and the Erosion of Genres of Spatial Descriptions, Ana Peraica - Have We all Turned into Flatlanders? Mapping and Human Complexity, Mario Neve