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

近代早期末期的欧洲地理学。在当前关于欧洲的辩论中，除其他外，与金融和政治危机有关，欧盟经常被描述为一个具有共同价值观和同质法律和经济空间的社区。这种描述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。目前的项目是关于这个假定的地理统一性或这个实体的制图制作。早在古代，就存在着以地图和地图册的形式对世界进行图形化生产的做法。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。政治命令和模范图像命令一直是对立的。该项目涉及这些想法和欧洲空间概念的构建。它将侧重于十八世纪欧洲在地理和图像方面的物质和智力起源，以及一般地图的媒介性。该项目的关键假设是，在1790年至1860年间，西欧基于地理的思维和感知的空间化变得普遍，并开始在地图上表达出来。此外，我声称这些新的图形对象或媒体有力地参与了以欧洲为中心的空间观念的接受和生产。分析是基于对地图制作的历史话语的调查，例如对地图制作的说明（文化技术）。地图学将被分析为一种文化技术，作为递归网络的功能，其中地图制作的过程和参与者是其构成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.