This week my reading moved from a 1677 woodcut map of New England to a 1606 copper engraved map of the religions of the world, to a seventeenth-century catalogue of world religions and Christian heresies, to a sprawling space opera set across the solar system. A rare book arrived in the mail, a public talk prompted uncomfortable questions, and the common thread running through all of it turned out to be the same: people trying to draw the world as they wished it to be, and the significant silences their clean lines depend on.
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https://craigphillips.substack.com/p/maps-space-battles-and-old-heresies
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