ABSTRACT
This chapter has related a history of attempts at representing the space of maritime cargomobilities, and it is largely a history of failure. Cartographic efforts that attempted to depict the ocean as an external and empty space of seamless movement inadvertently have drawn attention to a nature that will prevent limitless time-space compression. It first reviews some of the historic ways in which cartographers have integrated artistic images onto maps in order to represent the ocean as a space that is both essential to, and ideally annihilated by, the cargomobilities of capitalism. The Forgotten Space, the capitalist fantasy of an annihilated ocean has become a reality. Today, in an era of intensified and regularised global processes and production chains, this often means drawing attention to cargomobilities, especially in their most significant form: maritime transport. These are undertaken by shippers, labourers, consumers, artists, cartographers and others as they knowingly or unknowingly engage with the spaces and artefacts of maritime transport.
