This article discusses literary texts and other cultural practices that resemble, refer to, or make use of material from Google Earth. The aim is to elucidate experiences of glocalization (globalization and localization), an emerging form of spatiality that is related to the interactive ‘Web 2.0.’ The initial analysis of the browser game GeoGuessr and the interactive music video ‘The Wilderness Downtown’ explores this spatiality from two opposing starting points: while the game fosters a sense of place within locales that are essentially unknown to the player, the music video integrates images from places that are related to the viewer's personal memories into an otherwise impersonal work of art. This glocalized experience of place, which is both eroded by global systems of communication and recreated within these systems, is then traced in Marie Darrieussecq's novel La mer à l’envers and in several works, including novels, poems, and photographs, by Michel Houellebecq.

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“我们的一些愿望建造了这座城市”：Google 地球以及 GeoGuessr、Darrieussecq 和 Houellebecq 中的全球本地化


本文讨论了类似于、引用或使用 Google 地球中的材料的文学文本和其他文化习俗。其目的是阐明全球本地化（全球化和本地化）的经验，这是一种与交互式“Web 2.0”相关的新兴空间性形式。对浏览器游戏 GeoGuessr 和互动音乐视频“The Wilderness Downtown”的初步分析从两个相反的起点探索了这种空间性：游戏在玩家基本上不知道的地方中培养了一种地方感，而音乐视频则将与观众的个人记忆相关的地方的图像整合到原本非个人化的艺术作品中。这种地方的本地化体验既被全球通信系统侵蚀，又在这些系统内被重新创造，然后在玛丽·达里厄斯塞克 （Marie Darrieussecq） 的小说《La mer à l'envers》和米歇尔·维勒贝克 （Michel Houellebecq） 的几部作品中得到追溯，包括小说、诗歌和照片。