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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... body is programmed for a life distinctly different from our own , so Bertrand Russell used to say that our ordinary language conveys the metaphysics of the Stone Age . If it is true that memory is the intersection of mind and matter , 7 ...
... body that makes him see in opposite directions at the same time, more that he has a mind which allows him to merge seemingly contradictory categories into one mean- ingful whole. From his watchtower at the middle of the bridge he is con ...
... bodies too . It is by sharing our common understandings that we show who we are . Such is the ideal . As always ... body , the semiotic animal is in fact constantly trying to be what it knows it cannot be — a perfect sign perfectly ...
... body but that it is a body. Look, I am invisible! Invisible like the fish down there in the water, the prey that I have come down here to the bridge in order to tempt with my bait and catch on my hook, the thin fishing line and my ...
... body , Marduk found himself lodged in the abysmal interface between de- struction and con - struction . Like a professional butcher , a real ripper , He turned back to where Tiamat lay bound , he straddled the legs and smashed her skull ...
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