《未定之圖：觀空間》〈圖示警〉

Uncertain Maps: the Warning of the Maps

以西方「再現」觀念為始，亞蘭米龍的著作《未定之圖》（2013年由美文出版社出版），邀請讀者思考閱讀地圖的方式。相對於界定領土邊界的地圖，提出另類隱視變形之圖觀，帶領讀者創新空間（地方或處所）的想像。隨者不同的路徑：或是歷程、或是拓線，地圖創制的方式可隨幾何空間，或是詩意空間形變。兩種圖式閱讀讓我們得以從「間際」概念思索何謂「無圍邊際」。在形成中成型的輪廓，將改變我們對邊界、邊際、鴻溝、邊圍等觀念的界定。上溯至前蘇格拉底哲學思想，亞蘭米龍掙脫製圖學框架，探究空間的微調運動，是為圖觀之魂也。

Taking the Western concept of representation as starting point, the two chapters translated from Alain Milon's book Uncertain Maps (published in 2013 by Les Belles Lettres) invite readers to question our ways of reading the maps. Opposing to the analogical maps functioning in terms of measure of territory, anamorphous mapping tend to invent new imaginary of space and place. According to different itineraries, “parcours” or “tracé” in French, maps follow either spatial or poetic geometry. These two readings of the territory provide us thus opportunities to reflect upon the concept of “contour without perimeter “ based on the question of interstice. The contour in the making modifies our comprehension of notions such as border, boundary, gap or perimeter. Tracing back to the pre-Socratic philosophy, Alain Milon explores the modulation of spacing, the very soul of mapping without cartography.