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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... Christ , after much theological squabbling , was defined as the most inter - esting being of beings . E. End of the end , begin the beguine . Hence a return to the present , a two - part REQUIEM composed in remembrance of cartographical ...
... Christ subjected to interminable discussion , the Greek con- ception of the physical universe was likewise . Spanning the gap between the scientific and theological sides of the abyss was a man widely known as John Philoponus . His ...
... Christ must be one nature as well . This argument was itself typical of the Monophysites , a group which up to the present day has played a dominant role among Alexandria's Christians ; perhaps the Egyptians found the Monophysite ...
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