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 ...
... Christian confession , they observed that to trespass is to sin . More precisely : None of the gods shall transgress your limits , 13 in the original text rhetorically bejeweled , embellished and enhanced through the poetics of ...
... Christian theology, the clear- headedness of Greek science eventually evaporated into the thin air of dogma and mysticism. Gone were the likes of Pytheas, Eratosthenes and Ptolemy, imaginative forgers of the uncre- ated conscience of ...
... Christian Topography was quickly forgotten and not brought to light again until 1776, when a Latin translation ... Christians turned cosmography into prophecy; while to Ptolemy the earth was a round ball, to Cosmas it was as flat as it ...
... Christ subjected to interminable discussion , the Greek con- ception of the physical universe was likewise . Spanning ... Christian family , his second ( in effect not a proper name but an ( in ) definite descrip- tion ) that he was a ...
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