Cartographic Power: Reality-Protocol Theory and the Politics of the Maps We Live Inside

This paper advances Reality-Protocol Theory (RPT): the claim that power in complex societies is exercised primarily by designing, distributing, and defending protocols-lossy, rule-bearing maps that structure what agents perceive and how they act. A pr

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2025-08-25
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https://doi.org/10.22541/au.175615687.70289360/v1
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Geographic Information Systems Studies
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Cartographic Power: Reality-Protocol Theory and the Politics of the Maps We Live Inside

Joshua Luberisse
Geographic Information Systems Studies
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Cartographic Power: Reality-Protocol Theory and the Politics of the Maps We Live Inside

Joshua Luberisse
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This paper advances Reality-Protocol Theory (RPT): the claim that power in complex societies is exercised primarily by designing, distributing, and defending protocols-lossy, rule-bearing maps that structure what agents perceive and how they act. A pr

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