European maps at the end of the Early Modern Period. Techniques of construction.

“欧洲地理在近代早期的结束。“在当前关于欧洲的辩论中，其中包括与金融和政治危机有关的辩论，欧洲联盟经常被描述为一个共同价值观的共同体和一个同质的法律的和经济空间。这种定性是基于欧洲作为一个空间统一体的地理概念，这一点很少受到质疑。目前的项目涉及这一假定的地理统一或这一实体的制图工作。早在古代，就存在着以地图和地图集的形式绘制世界地图的做法。直到今天，它们无疑是构建秩序和视觉挪用观念的有力工具。政治的和模范的绘画秩序一直是相互对立的。该项目涉及这些想法和欧洲的空间概念的建设。它将集中在物理和智力起源的欧洲在十八世纪在其地理和图片的层面，以及对媒体的地图一般。该项目的主要假设是，在1790年至1860年之间，西欧以地理为基础的思维和感知的空间化变得普遍，并在地图中表达出来。此外，我认为这些新的图形对象或媒体有力地参与了欧洲中心主义空间思想的接受和生产。分析的基础是对地图制作的历史论述的调查，例如地图制作的说明（文化技术）。制图将被分析为一种文化技术，作为一个递归的网络，其中的过程和地图生产的演员是其宪法的永久过程的一部分。

“European Geographies at the end of the Early Modern Period. Techniques of Construction”In current debates on Europe, which among others, are related to the financial and political crisis, the European Union oftentimes is characterized as a community of shared values and a homogenous legal and economic space. This characterization is based on a geographical conception of Europe as a spatial unity, which is rarely questioned. The current project is concerned with this assumed geographical unity or the cartographic production of this entity. Already in ancient times, there existed practices of graphical production of the world in the form of maps and atlases. Until today they undoubtedly represent powerful tools for the construction of ideas of order and visual appropriations. Political and exemplary pictorial orders always have been opposing each other. The project deals with these ideas and the construction of spatial notions of Europe. It will focus on the physical and intellectual genesis of Europe during the eighteenth century in its geographical and pictorial dimension as well as on the mediality of maps in general. The key assumption of the project is that between 1790 and 1860 in Western Europe, a geographically based spatialization of thinking and perception became prevalent, that came to be expressed in maps. Furthermore, I claim that these new graphic objects or media powerfully engaged in the reception and production of Eurocentric ideas of space. The analysis is based on an investigation of historical discourses on the production of maps, e.g. of instructions for the production of maps (cultural techniques). Cartography will be analyzed as a cultural technique that functions as a recursive network, in which processes and actors of map production are part of a permanent process of its constitution.