ABSTRACT A map is not its territory. Taking a map too seriously may lead to pernicious reification: map and world are conflated. As one family of cases of such reification, I focus on maps exuding the omphalos syndrome, whereby a centred location on the map is taken to be the world navel of, for instance, an empire. I build on themes from my book When Maps Become the World, in which I analogize scientific theories to maps, and develop the tools of assumption archaeology and integration platforms. Here I argue that excavating assumptions helps fill cartographic silences, showing the limitations of perspectives often at war. Furthermore, integrating perspectives permits resisting imperial central or master images. A worthwhile future project would be a repository of world-navel maps, critically annotated with cultural context and imperial information. Mutual understanding may result from such an integration platform, perhaps implemented online or in a museum.

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切断电源：制图学和科学中的世界肚脐矫正

摘要地图不是其领土。过于认真对待地图可能会导致有害的修正：将地图和世界混合在一起。作为这类修正案的一族，我主要研究散布着omphalos综合征的地图，据此，地图上的中心位置被视为一个帝国的世界肚脐。我以《当地图成为世界》一书中的主题为基础，在其中我将科学理论与地图相仿，并开发了假设考古学和集成平台的工具。在这里，我认为发掘假设有助于填补制图上的沉默，显示出战争时经常出现的观点局限性。此外，整合视角可以抵抗帝国的中央或主图像。一个有价值的未来项目将是世界航海图的存储库，带有文化背景和帝国信息的批注。相互理解可能来自这种集成平台，可能是在线或在博物馆中实现的。