The Curious Case of Carto and the Map Bigger than Its Territory

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Published on March 15, 2021 4:00:02 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6f176urgzUo

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Carto (2020)

Duration: 15:49

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In this video essay, I discuss Carto (2020) and its relationship to longstanding discussions about maps. Particularly using Alfred Korzybski and Jorge Luis Borges's thoughts on "Maps and Territory" as they relate to the ways that video games represent and collapse maps on their territories. These authors argued that "the map is NOT the territory," but in Carto the map IS the territory, which is awesome, and insane!

Special thanks to the guest voice from Pixel a Day, her channel is amazing! https://www.youtube.com/c/PixelaDay/

I had a lot of fun making this video and it is the third in a trilogy on indie games from 2020, you can check out the other two here:

Carrion - Movie Monster Simulator (https://youtu.be/64XI0WWxcgA)
Defining the Earnest Game Genre (https://youtu.be/aDhxFelIxKs)

The next video will be tangentially related to maps, as it will deal with Microsoft Flight Simulator, and the next trilogy will loosely be related to environments and nature.

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Additional footage from: Planet Earth, Pexels, Snoman Gaming
Music from: Journey soundtrack, Carto soundtrack

0:00 - Introduction
3:03 - Part 1: Maps
9:16 - Part 2: Language

(also, thank you to Hotcyder for the thumbnail aid!)

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