One Map Closer to the End of the World (As We Know It): Thinking Digital Cartographic Humanities with the Anthropocene

This chapter discusses the role of the cartographic humanities within the horizons of environmental thought by exploring the wider visual disseminations of the Anthropocene in different cartographic media. Through “seensing” (the act of seeing and sensing images), the aesthetic experience of the Cartographic Anthropocene can be lived in its intellectual and emotional, attentive and fleeting, and symbolic and material nuances. Specifically, this chapter intersects three domains (visuality, materiality, and movement) that contextualise anthropocentric and post-anthropocentric digital and non-digital maps into three different configurations: fast-moving, slow, or exhausted. Subsequent sections highlight these different characteristics of maps and, consequently, the wide spectrum of rhythms imbued in mapping (at) the end of the world as we know it.