The Navigable Image: Vermeer, Melville, and the Maritime Coordinates of Computer Graphics.
Before graphics addressed pixels, they addressed oceans. This essay offers a genealogy of computable graphics in maritime navigation and visual media including sea charts, ephemerides, baroque painting, literature, and video games. From Johannes Vermeer's The Geographer to Herman Melville's whale ch...
| Publicado en: | Critical Inquiry Vol. 52; no. 1; pp. 99 - 131 |
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University of Chicago Press
Autumn2025
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| Sumario: | Before graphics addressed pixels, they addressed oceans. This essay offers a genealogy of computable graphics in maritime navigation and visual media including sea charts, ephemerides, baroque painting, literature, and video games. From Johannes Vermeer's The Geographer to Herman Melville's whale charts, it reconstructs a history graphics as planetary technologies of calculating, addressing, and navigating worlds. The digital interface isn't a window onto the world; it's a helm. |
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