Space cannot exist only as a given place where social relations and social processes operate, which would imprison the spatial imagination of literary geography. The absence of the spatial dimension in social theory largely reduces the imagination of geography and the creativity of literature. Literary painting has become a key way of understanding our world, and literature creates a much grander world. Every time we open a nautical chart, we find the lost imperial sailors on the edge of the world, winding up on the voyage. Spatial cognition is an important area of research in cognitive science, and the problem of space is first and foremost a problem of geography, but also an important problem that is being studied in psychology, cartography, information science, computer science, and artificial intelligence, among other disciplines. A map is a planar representation of land territorial possession and maritime territorial possession, and at the same time, a map embodies a transcendent knowledge or a symbol of absolute power. Along with the exploration of new worlds and the reorganization of old societies, we can see that maps are at the same time an expression of language and an expression of emotion while reading the space they bring us.
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