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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... University Press , 1985 ) , 33 . ture of abstract geometrical lines and shapes which did not represent any- thing real in the geographical space but made visible mathematical rela- tionships within the orthogonal frame of the map . ” 28 ...
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