Even inaccessible places are now easily surveyed by amateurs with drones to produce one representation or another of territory. Geospatial media permeate a vast portion of those regions and places that humans are familiar with. Keywordsīergson, Geographical Information Systems, Google Earth, Spatio-temporal, Street View Video gaming and the combination of Google Earth and Street View are explored as limited alternatives that draw on embodied, kinaesthetic experiences of movement in space to open up or “uncurl” extra dimensions that allow more nuance in digital representations of spatiotemporal encounters, and the many modes and rhythms of duration found in the environment. This “affiliation” of the past enlivens the present perceptual life of experience. They argue that temporal memory is the basis of attention in encounters and perception of situations. The assumption of a static Cartesian, metric space of two or three dimensions only and defined by coordinates makes it difficult to create GIS and Historical GIS (HGIS) interfaces and representations that include the dynamics Bergson and later Deleuze describe. Geographical Information Systems (GIS) intended as digital forms of mapping struggle to represent time, change and temporality. From our forthcoming special issue, Geospatial Memory ( Media Theory 2/1), Rob Shields elaborates a Bergsonian and Deleuzian critique of the representation of temporality and memory in GIS.īergson’s GIS: Experience, Time and Memory in Geographical Information Systems ROB SHIELDS University of Alberta, Canada

Bergson 2 types of memory