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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... culture . Around the world in one week , deluxe accom- modations and three - star fare at the cost of asking . And even though the imagined readers must find their own way through the unknown , I would be surprised , nay saddened , if ...
... culture lies there before us ready to be tilled . The Renaissance masters and the Orthodox icon - makers did it , Paul Cézanne and Mark Rothko , Marcel Duchamp and Thomas Pynchon as well . Thus far and no farther , any attempt to ...
... cultural compasses whose needle points us not to the physical existence of the magnetic north pole but to the social subsistence ... culture transferred , 6 the world of reality always a mediated world , never a collection of things - in ...
... cultural practices which together make us sapiens.9 Throughout these expeditions into the Land- of-the- Knowing- Man my guiding star will be Søren Kierkegaard's aphorism that we live forwards and understand backwards. The Swede will ...
... cultural transmission of purposeful action.17 And so it is that to Homo sapi- ens language is not merely a medium of reflection but the very foundation of self- knowledge, not merely a mirror but the tain of the mirror.18 The fact that ...
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Rumlig praksis: Festskrift til Kirsten Simonsen Keld Buciek,Kirsten Simonsen No preview available - 2006 |