Refers to the practice of creating a mental map or representation to understand, code, and decode relative information. This process of mapping privileges totality by tracking and articulating mutually dependent relationships and links, and is hampered by the difficulty of visualizing intangible or abstract concepts. But as Alberto Toscano outlines in an exhibition essay, “the cognitive demand for figures, images, narratives, and allegories of the social totality has been nothing if not insistent” (see I Stood Before the Source). While Toscano acknowledges the difficulty of accurately visualizing the invisible and fragmented cogs of capitalism’s machine, his theoretical contributions outline the various ways art can picture and map the invisible networks and infrastructures of global capitalism (see The pen moves across the earth..., The Work of Wind: Air, Land, Sea, Logics of Sense).