Unmapping and Cartographic Pedagogy: Digital Humanities, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, NY.

If maps are colonial tools that function to provide information through a visual logic, what potentially becomes undone when sound is used as a primary method of spatial analysis? Challenging the occularcentrism of our society, this presentation explores sonic ways of knowing in the Caribbean and its diaspora. When we begin with sound first, how is wayfinding oriented differently? As opposed to re-mapping and reproducing modes of transparency, we will explore the power of opacity in geographies under colonialism. Touching on the methodologies of Black studies, sound studies, and the digital humanities, an interdisciplinary engagement on sonic data is welcome for discussion.

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