SeaFury 🦜🍃 on Nostr: The re-naming of the Gulf of Mexico is much deeper than “just a name change”, ...
The re-naming of the Gulf of Mexico is much deeper than “just a name change”, it’s made clear the power that Google now wields over us. Maps exert authority over our lands and everything in it. When colonisers come, they conquer with more than weapons. Their maps legitimise their imagined places over what was there before. Who gave Google this power? #google #power #maps
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