Contents -- Introduction -- Mapping Considered as a Problem of Theory and Practice -- Research conducted through practice -- A theory machine -- From theory to practice -- "What is called reality is constituted in a complex of representations" -- Representation and the Necessity of Interpretation -- The opacity of transparency -- Interpretation and "the view from nowhere" -- Para-empiricism -- Lexicon -- From Military Surveillance to the Public Sphere -- Global Positioning System (GPS) -- Remote-sensing satellites -- Geographic Information Systems (GIS) -- Projects -- Chapter 1. You Are Here -- Global positioning -- Point -- Implied plane -- Letters -- Map -- Museu -- Fronts -- Pixels -- Chapter 2. Kuwait: Image Mapping -- Kuwait: image mapping -- Chapter 3. Cape Town, South Africa, 1968: Search or Surveillance? -- Search or surveillance: what can we do with what we see there now? -- Khayelitsha (before and after apartheid) -- Chapter 4. Kosovo 1999: SPOT 083-264 -- Kosovo: SPOT 083-264, june 3 and june 6, 1999 -- A digital memorial -- Clouded memory -- Chapter 5. New York, September 11, 2001 -- New York, September 11, 2001, four days later -- Chapter 6. Around Ground Zero -- The map -- Interview with alice twemlow -- Chapter 7. Monochrome Landscapes -- Monochrome Landscapes -- Zoom -- White -- Blue -- Green -- Yellow -- Shades of green -- Chapter 8. Global Clock -- Global clock -- Chapter 9. Million-Dollar Blocks -- What are million-dollar blocks? or, justice and the city -- Why are so many americans in jail and prison? -- From data to maps -- From crime maps to admissions maps -- Redefining the problem: mass migration and reentry -- Money maps -- Criminal justice as infrastructure -- Acknowledgments -- Exhibitions, Installations, Publications -- Notes.