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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... human territory is delimited , of how we find our way in the unknown by draw- ing on invisible maps of the invisible and by following cultural compasses whose needle points us not to the physical existence of the magnetic north pole but ...
... Territory of the Humans , ( re ) trace its fluctuating boundaries and find its stable center ; produce an atlas of what it means to be human ; ˇ ˇ initiate a critique of cartographical reason . The order is given , the order shall be ...
... Territory of the Humans is enclosed within non- crossable boundaries of silence , the godly realm of Mindscape located at the top , the beastly caves of Rockscape at the bottom . To be human is in that perspective to be engaged in a ...
... human . Yet another set of local habitations provided with proper names and definite descriptions , yet another ... humans have expanded their territory into areas which were previously ruled by the utterly alien , sometimes appearing in ...
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