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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... yet another astronomer- turned - geographer , yet another practitioner who understood that geog- raphy is most properly defined as a geometry with names . * Claudius Ptolemaeus , better known as Ptolemy , was. 32 MAPPINGS.
... Ptolemy's attempt to correlate the supposed character- istics of various peoples with the positions of zodiacal ... Ptolemy was careful to stress that he described them not as they really are but as they appear to an observer placed on ...
... Ptolemy's terms for what modern semioti- cians call visual marks and proper names. Sounds like a poststructuralist to me. And like a cubist painter he sensed that no one but a man skilled in the imitative art of drawing can picture a ...
... Ptolemy's conic map projection . Drawing from Lloyd A. Brown , The Story of Maps ( Boston : Little , Brown and Company , 1949 ) , 70 . fully rendered in a three - dimensional sculpture than in a two - dimensional picture . It follows ...
... Ptolemy's oikumene caught in his first projection . Drawing from J. Lennart Berggren and Al- exander Jones , Ptolemy's Geography ( Princeton , N.J .: Princeton University Press , 2000 ) , 129 . Reprinted by permission of the Princeton ...
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