PUBLICATIONS
April 1999 Issue
The Geographical Review
April 1999, Vol. 89 (1), pp. 290-300
SPECIAL ISSUE - OCEANS CONNECT
MEDITERRANEAN THINKING: FROM NETIZEN TO MEDIZEN
Miriam Cooke
Keywords: aquacentrism, cyberepistemology, diachronicity, fixity/fluidity, place.
ABSTRACT:
The Mediterranean has traditionally been approached from a geographical and historical perspective that has collapsed the material and political
differences between water and land. This conflation has been instrumental in homogenizing the diversity of this interregional arena and turning it into a geopolitical
area. Aquacentric thinking brings such approaches to the Mediterranean into question. Cybertheory, which despatializes interaction and helps us think of water as
place, is applied to the Mediterranean to bring its multiplicity into dialogue and to explore the possibility of creating a new epistemology of place. Mediterraneanizing
cybertheory introduces diachronicity into theories of simultaneity.
Keywords: aquacentrism, cyberepistemology, diachronicity, fixity/fluidity, place.
ABSTRACT:
The Mediterranean has traditionally been approached from a geographical and historical perspective that has collapsed the material and political differences between water and land. This conflation has been instrumental in homogenizing the diversity of this interregional arena and turning it into a geopolitical area. Aquacentric thinking brings such approaches to the Mediterranean into question. Cybertheory, which despatializes interaction and helps us think of water as place, is applied to the Mediterranean to bring its multiplicity into dialogue and to explore the possibility of creating a new epistemology of place. Mediterraneanizing cybertheory introduces diachronicity into theories of simultaneity.