Locative Media & The City

Stepping away from a one dimensional analysis, Frederic Johnson’s chapter on the theory of postmodernism offers an interesting approach to mediating the relationship between ‘existential experience’ and ‘scientific knowledge.’ He leads us to reflect on how we can build a link between both worlds in our modern day society by asking, “Can we in fact identify some ‘moment of truth’ within the more evident ‘moment of falsehood’ of postmodern culture? As he emphasizes later on in the chapter, it is the approach that should be reconstructed. Taking the notion of ‘cognitive mapping,’ I think Johnson is suggesting that we understand our world within languages of representations and our position within its confusion. We must think of ourselves as wrapped in a ‘global reality’ where we relate to our relationships with the local, national and global realm. If the answer to our postmodern crisis is to following the ‘cognitive map’ way of thinking, which would mean creating and redefining new forms of meanings, what would this theoretical map look like?