The risk is that we would conclude by simply mapping the mapmakers, showing where they themselves fit in the networks, fields,…

“The risk is that we would conclude by simply mapping the mapmakers, showing where they themselves fit in the networks, fields, forces, institutions. Maps of the social, technical, communicative production and determination of maps, as it were. This would be the meta-map taking account of itself, to show its own determination by the tendencies of our intellectual moment – tendencies like the emphasis on capitalism’s mysteriousness and intractability, or our incapacity in the face of it, of our anxiety about our incapacity, and so forth”

–Paranoid Subjectivity and the Challenges of Cognitive Mapping – How is Capitalism to be Represented? - Forum - e-flux conversations (vianataliekane)