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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... Cosmas Indicopleustes—“Cosmas the Indian Sea Traveler”—was not the proper name of a real individual,46 but the (in)definite description of an Alexandrian Greek active during the first half of the sixth century. After a successful career ...
... Cosmas' book so fascinating is consequently not what it says but what it shows: cartographical reason in nuce. Most importantly, he seems unwittingly to have accepted Ptolemy's argument that “world cartography is an imitation through ...
... Cosmas Indicopleustes included — claimed that the title Theotokos , “ Mother of God , ” did not properly belong to Mary . This demotion of the Holy Virgin from the rank of “ Mother of God ” to “ Mother of Jesus ” had the further ...
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