Atlas
A cartography of questions Every mark is a story, not a location. A map is an argument about place. Silence on the plate is not emptiness in the world, only in this archive.
World Time Discipline Place
The plate
76 marks · 12 unlocated
Pacific Pacific Atlantic Indian Southern Tropic of Cancer Equator Tropic of Capricorn N
The archive
A map is an argument about place
Filled · Site Open · Region Lozenge · Symbolic placement
A map is an argument about place. Silence on the plate is not emptiness in the world, only in this archive. Hover a mark for the story. Click for the question, the word, and the geographic status of the mark.
Where the questions appear
All Attention10 Knowledge29 Self36 Memory12 Perception23 Language14 Mind & body13 Other minds21 Awakening18 Gazetteer
An index of the plate. Each name is a story. Open a name to set it on the map.
A Blink for a Letter Berck-sur-Mer, Hôpital Maritime · 1997 · Site A Book in the Snow Guovdageaidnu / Kautokeino, and the pages written in a turf hut · 1910 · Region A Firm of Selves Lisbon · 1914–1935 · Region A Gill, a Memory Columbia University, of the work · 1960s–2000 · Site A Language with No Parents Managua · 1977–1986 · Region A Letter the King Might See The Andes, on the manuscript now in Copenhagen · c. 1615 · Region A Light That Did Not Stay Outside Disibodenberg, then Rupertsberg · 1141–1151 · Region A Little Thing, the Size of a Hazelnut Norwich · May 1373 · Site A Loop That Is Lived Santiago, Paris, and the page of *The Embodied Mind* · 1991 · Region A Map Danced on Wax Brünn, then Munich · 1920s–1946 · Region A Map Drawn on a Waking Man Montreal Neurological Institute · 1930s–1958 · Site A Memory That Would Not Thin Moscow · 1920s–1968 · Region A Mind with Eight Arms Oceans, and a few laboratories · 2010s, with older roots · Region A Twig, Stripped Gombe Stream, Tanzania · 1960 · Region An Inquiry in Ge'ez A cave of exile, in the text’s own telling · 1667 · Region Asleep, and Knowing It Stanford University · 1981 · Region Before I Hear the Bell Kyoto, on the page · 1911 · Site Beneath the Fig Uruvelā, later Bodh Gayā · c. 5th century BCE · Site Beside the Stove A stove-heated room in Germany, later on the page from the Netherlands · 1619 / 1641 · Region For Those Who Are Perplexed Fustat (Cairo) · c. 1190 · Site Imagine Playing Tennis Cambridge · 2006 · Region Interior Castle Ávila / Toledo · 1577 · Region Light That Is Not a Creature Mount Athos, and Constantinople of the controversy · 1330s–1351 · Region Look, a Negro Lyon, and the page of *Peau noire, masques blancs* · 1952 · Region Mountains Walking Eihei-ji, Echizen · 1240 · Region No Mirror, No Dust Huangmei, then Shaozhou, on the page of the Platform Sūtra · c. 7th–8th century, as later told · Region Once He Dreamed He Was a Butterfly The state of Song, traditionally · c. 4th century BCE · Region One Thread Among Many A stage in California, then the feed · 2016, among other dates · Region Same and Different Chicago, then Purdue, Northwestern, Arizona, MIT, Brandeis, Harvard · 1977–2007 · Region Seeing Without Seeing Britain, then many labs · 1974 onward · Region Star of Gladness Honolua Bay, Maui, then the ocean toward Tahiti · 1976 · Site The Cake Was Not a Theory Paris, remembering Combray · 1913 · Symbolic placement The Circular Ruins A temple the story will not locate · 1940 · Region The Conviction of Its Existence Turner’s Lane Hospital, Philadelphia · 1864–1872 · Site The Eyes, Still Sleeping University of Chicago · 1953 · Site The Fire and the Wall Athens · c. 375 BCE · Region The Floating Man On the page, from Bukhara to Hamadan to Isfahan · c. 1027 · Region The Flower Is Not the Face Yamato sarugaku, in the orbit of the Ashikaga court · c. 1402 · Region The Gorilla in the Pass Harvard, of the 1999 report · 1999 · Site The Grammar of Animacy Great Lakes, on the page · 2013 · Region The Half-Second Before University of California, San Francisco · 1983 · Region The Hard Part Tucson, Arizona · 1994 / 1995 · Site The Hours, Uncut Westminster · 1925 · Region The Hunger to Know Mexico City, convent of San Jerónimo · 1691 · Site The Imitation Game Manchester, on the page of Mind · 1950 · Region The Inner Head Ilé-Ifẹ̀, and on the page · 1976 · Region The Isthmus Damascus, after Andalusia and Mecca · 1200–1240 · Region The Line That Would Not Join Barcelona, then Madrid · 1888 · Site The Lion Was Gold Chang'an, in the palace telling · c. 699–704 · Region The Mark on the Glass Laboratories, then field and farm · 1970 · Site The Palaces of Memory Hippo Regius · c. 397–400 · Region The Pale Blue Disc Cislunar space, and later low Earth orbit · 1968, named 1987 · Symbolic placement The Reed’s Complaint Konya · c. 1258–1273 · Region The Room and the Other Life Rio de Janeiro, on the page of *A Paixão Segundo G.H.* · 1964 · Symbolic placement The Secretary and the Script MIT, Project MAC · 1966 · Site The Sound After Edo, on the page of a hokku · 1686 · Symbolic placement The Stream of Thought Cambridge, Massachusetts · 1890 · Site The Thief Who Remembers Being a Thief Western oak woodlands, and Cambridge aviaries · 1990s–2000s · Region The Tick’s World On the page, from Hamburg and the Baltic · 1934 · Region The Two-in-One New York · 1973–1978 · Region The Word at the Pump Ivy Green, Tuscumbia · 1887 · Site The Work of Rest Washington University, St. Louis · 2001 · Region They Gather to Learn Seattle, and sites around it · 2015 · Region Things Are Lights Aleppo · 1186 / 1191 · Site Thirty Birds Nishapur, on the page of *Manṭiq al-ṭayr* · c. 1177 · Region Twenty Verses, Not a Simulation Gandhāra, as later tradition seats him · 4th–5th century CE · Region Two Ears, One Name Imperial College, London · 1953 · Site Two Reports, One Skull California laboratories · 1960s–1970s · Site Two-ness Atlanta, and on the page from Great Barrington · 1903 · Site Unconscious Conclusions Heidelberg, then Berlin, on the page · 1867 · Site Waiting, Not Seeking Marseille · 1942 · Region What English Calls Mind Legon, and on the page · 1980s–1990s · Site What It Is Like Princeton, on the page of *The Philosophical Review* · 1974 · Site When Knowledge Would Not Sit Still Baghdad, then Damascus and Tus · 1095 · Region Where Maxi Will Look Salzburg · 1983 · Region Who Is Asking? Madurai, then Arunachala · 1896 · Region Unlocated
Geographic status · No single site
The Door with a Seam of Color · A thought experiment has no coordinates.When the Lights Go Out · Operating theaters everywhere: a global practice, not a pin.Before the Mark Is a Face · A sample of children, not a single nursery.The Room That Follows Rules · A thought experiment has no inner address.A Box, a Beetle · The box is a device, not a site.The Child and the Gazelle · The island is a literary device, not a surveyed shore.Smoke, Fire, and the Unseen Mind · A corpus of sūtras, not one courtyard.Empty of Own-Being · A verse treatise, not a surveyed monastery.The Child and the Well · A dialogue corpus, not one well.A Person Through Persons · A proverb across Nguni speech, not a village pin.The Places of the Guests · A Roman telling of a Greek banquet, not an excavated hall.A Place Set for the Living Who Were · Homes and cemeteries across Mexico, not one altar.Land without a mark is not a verdict. Drawn, and not yet asked from, among others: much of Africa, the Pacific, the Andes, Central Asia.
Discipline, tradition, and theme are filing cabinets, not identities. A story may sit in more than one drawer. That is the point of an atlas of questions.
