Current Tonight | May 21, 2010 | 15 comments

The Beauty and Ugly of Parageography.

source: http://michaelhelgerson.com/2009/06/2-oh-the-humanity/

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A map with a moral compass. "A map is not the territory",....unless the territory IS Parageography,...in which case the map is an example which IS the territory,.....

Oh never mind. Enjoy the map. If you love maps of allegory, worlds of imagination, wit, and humor, this should satisfy.

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    • artemis6:

      Yes you can,....and do,....in as much detail as you desire and can manage. That was the final project for the class. The final exam itself was piecing together poetic fragments he had passed out all during the semester, reconstructing a vision of "his world",...and writing essays and short stories about it. LOVED that class,....admired that professor; polylinguist/historian/world lit guy.

    • 2 years ago
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    • I like the pics, but I can't look at them all. I have a very limited amount of mental space I devote to geography and I can't afford to bump anything out.

    • 2 years ago
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    • Parageography is the speculative -cartography to speculative -fiction.

      More to explore for those that care and dare----- From NYT

      CAMPUS LIFE: Texas; A Course That Explores Fantasy Lands
      AUSTIN, Tex.— The debauchery in the city of Clus rivals that of any college party. As the pleasure capital of the land of High Thefarie, seven owls preside over unbridled gambling, drinking and sex.

      High Thefarie and Clus, of course, are fantasy lands. But to University of Texas students enrolled in the school's "Introduction to Parageography" course, such make-believe places come vividly alive.

      "If everyone were studying or teaching this, I'd probably worry about it," said Douglass Parker, a classics professor, who in 1973 created the class in parageography, a word he coined to describe the study of imaginary places. "The thrust for me is having my students make something, to put their creativity to work."

      Students enrolled in Professor Parker's course, one of the most popular classes at the university, examine how classical and modern authors describe fictional places. Although the class may not fit into the academic mainstream, it includes a vigorous reading schedule that ranges from Virgil's "Aeneid" and Herodotus's "Histories" to such contemporary books as J. R. R. Tolkien's "Fellowship of the Rings." Used in Final Exam

      Professor Parker, who is also an improvisational jazz trombonist, created High Thefarie as an example of a fantasy world. He uses it as a basis for his final exam, which requires students to expand upon his ideas by creating new aspects of High Thefarie.....continued----

      http://www.nytimes.com/1991/12/29/nyregion/campus-life-texas-a-course-that-explo...

    • 2 years ago
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