Abysmal: A Critique of Cartographic ReasonPeople rely on reason to think about and navigate the abstract world of human relations in much the same way they rely on maps to study and traverse the physical world. Starting from that simple observation, renowned geographer Gunnar Olsson offers in Abysmal an astonishingly erudite critique of the way human thought and action have become deeply immersed in the rhetoric of cartography and how this cartographic reasoning allows the powerful to map out other people’s lives. |
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... Apsu , primeval , their begetter , Mummu , ( and ) Tiamat , she who gave ( Still ) mingled their waters together , birth to them all , And no pasture land had been formed ( and ) not ( even ) a reed marsh was to be seen ; When none of ...
... Apsu, the hidden but well- established seat of power. Ideally I would like to become one with this preposition- turned- conjunctive.10 At the same time I am well aware that in reality such a feat is impossible, not the least because ...
... Apsu and Tiamat, the former sweet, the latter bitter. And, as if to underline the spatiality of its own structure, the term “Apsu” literally means “abyss” and “uttermost limit,” by linguistic coincidence connect- able also to “the great ...
... Apsu and Tiamat, the former sweet, the latter bitter. And, as if to underline the spatiality of its own structure, the term “Apsu” literally means “abyss” and “uttermost limit,” by linguistic coincidence connect- able also to “the great ...
... Apsu made his voice heard And spoke to Tiamat in a loud voice , “ Their ways have become very grievous to me , By day I cannot rest , by night I cannot sleep . I shall abolish their ways and disperse them ! Let peace prevail , so that ...
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