ABSTRACT
In The Practice of Everyday Life the French sociologist and philosopher Michel de Certeau employs cartographic strategies in his attempt to create a theoretical framework for an analysis of the rhetorics not of science and art, but of everyday life. According to de Certeau, the eye of Icarus is the cartographic abstract eye which looks at the city from the top of the World Trade Centre. Icarus 'maps' from an azimuthal point of view. The Fool's Cap World Map demonstrates how we perceive the world through a cartographic eye, a grid of longitudes and meridians that measures distances and relations, marks territories and belongings and transforms chaotic information into an ordered landscape. The cartographic eye of the painter creates a simulacrum, a projection on a plane going out from a specific point in space and focusing on the structures of the earth surface.
