This essay examines the use of spatializing techniques for analysing cultural data, drawing on fieldwork with developers of music recommender systems in the United States. Comparing these practices with related analytic techniques developed by post‐war cognitive anthropologists, it explores three broad topics: how such techniques engender a sense of continuous, enveloping milieu from discrete and often sparse data; how spatialization is used to grant culture a kind of reality rooted in pragmatic action and scientific quantification; and how spatial representations of culture are essentially anticipatory for the people who make them, transforming the near future into the nearby.

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一切都在一个空间中：文化数据和空间现实

本文利用与美国音乐推荐系统开发人员的实地考察，研究了空间分析技术在分析文化数据方面的应用。将这些实践与战后认知人类学家开发的相关分析技术进行了比较，探讨了三个广泛的主题：这些技术如何从离散且经常稀疏的数据中产生一种连续的，笼罩的环境感；如何利用空间来赋予文化某种根植于务实行动和科学量化的现实；以及文化的空间表征在本质上是如何使创造它们的人们期待的，从而将不久的将来转化为附近的事物。