Entering a Risky Territory – Space in the Age of Digital Navigation

The great advantage of the digitalization of maps has been to rematerialize the practice of using maps. It is thus much easier than before to contrast the mimetic from the navigational use of maps made every day more visible by the developments of digital techniques. The paper aims at opening a conversation between science studies and geography by showing how the notion of territory itself may now be clearly seen as an artefact from a mimetic usage of maps.