Eades, Gwilym (2010) An Apollonian appreciation of Google Earth. Geoforum, 41 (5).
Full text access: Open
This short article reviews and critically appraises Kingsbury and Jones' (2009) Geoforum article entitled "Walter Benjamin's Dionysian Adventures on Google Earth", and finds it lacking in several regards. First, the use of Nietzsche's Dionysus/Apollo dichotomy is in fact a double binary, in which Apollonian logic is constructed as a binary within the dichotomy, while the Dionysian logic is 'bacchanalian'. Second, Walter Benjamin as exemplar of Dionysian logic is shown to be problematic and more a distraction from the flawed Nietzschean logic than a useful construct in itself. Lastly, the educational potential of Google Earth is overlooked by Kingsbury and Jones, in their haste to see Google Earth through 'Google goggles', in which everything Google appears through Dionysian-tinted lenses. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
This is a Submitted version This version's date is: 9/2010 This item is not peer reviewed
https://repository.royalholloway.ac.uk/items/7f56ca10-4788-fb5b-4802-925346648758/2/
Deposited by Research Information System (atira) on 03-May-2013 in Royal Holloway Research Online.Last modified on 03-May-2013