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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... conception of the Babylonian poet a void was consequently a void-in-and-of-itself, not merely a void of form. Then (as well as now) it was through the practice of naming that shapeless matter (more precisely fluid water rather than ...
... conception of the Babylonian poet a void was consequently a void - in - and - of - itself , not merely a void of form . Then ( as well as now ) it was through the practice of naming that shapeless matter ( more precisely fluid water ...
... conception of the inhabited world as surrounded by an Ocean river , arguing instead for the possibility , indeed the probability , of a Terra Incognita , an imaginary world beyond the limits of arbitrarily determined boundary lines . In ...
... conception of the first cause with the Christian notion of a personal God. In turn this twist led him to reject the prevalent belief in the world's eternity and to accept instead the proposition that heaven and earth are constituted by ...
... conception of the first cause with the Christian notion of a personal God . In turn this twist led him to reject the prevalent belief in the world's eternity and to accept instead the proposition that heaven and earth are constituted by ...
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