{"id":148,"date":"2007-09-14T08:50:27","date_gmt":"2007-09-14T15:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/2007\/09\/14\/humanitys-map\/"},"modified":"2009-01-04T11:08:29","modified_gmt":"2009-01-04T18:08:29","slug":"humanitys-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/2007\/09\/14\/humanitys-map\/","title":{"rendered":"Humanity&#8217;s map"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Humanity's map\" href=\"http:\/\/slgcomic.com\/product-exec\/product_id\/589\/nm\/Map_of_Humanity\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/files\/2009\/01\/map_of_humanity.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-315\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/files\/2009\/01\/map_of_humanity-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Satirical map of humanity\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Beautiful, obsessive, map of the thoughtful world, by James Turner, mixing place and ideas and emotion and so much else.  And it&#8217;s hilarious.  To the north is goodness; wisdom to the west, reason to the east.  Utopia, a small atoll, is between them (capital: Aircastle).  To the south is Hedonism and Abomination.  At the center of the world, you have Constantinople, Hollywood, Xi&#8217;an, the Hearst Ranch, and Olympus in the Pride district, next to the Gulf of Arrogance.<\/p>\n<p>Across the Strait of Nationalism, lies Elysium (major cities: Verdun, Arras, Basra, Minsk, and Lvov), bordered by the regions of Cruelty, Tyranny, and Destruction.  Sadism and Torture are districts of Destruction; Van Dieman&#8217;s Land is in between Sadism and Vengeance.<\/p>\n<p>To the west, across the Strait of Kinsey (!), is the land of Hedonism.  Major cities include Rio de Janeiro, New Orleans, Amsterdam, and Los Angeles.  Abandonment lies just off-shore, Madagascar-like.  To the south are the districts of Lies (capital: Watergate), Delusion, Gluttony (Graceland, City of McDonalds, and Fattiburg), with the Gulag Archipeligo to the southmost.<\/p>\n<p>I suspect the hand of Finbar in all this: to the northeast, in the Sea of the Short-Sighted, by the Island of Magical Thought, lies Cork City all by its lonesome at about 50&#8217;N, 115&#8217;E.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beautiful, obsessive, map of the thoughtful world, by James Turner, mixing place and ideas and emotion and so much else. And it&#8217;s hilarious. To the north is goodness; wisdom to the west, reason to the east. Utopia, a small atoll, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/2007\/09\/14\/humanitys-map\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[146,1426],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","category-visualization"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8jQA6-2o","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1116"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}