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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... everything beautifully right at the beginning ; every- thing horribly wrong at the end ; no one to blame in between . To understand what eventually followed , the present book included , one should know that even though the tragic ...
... everything I have to say is deeply rooted in the past . In deed I am often less impressed by the splendid analyses of today than by the wisdoms of the broken clay tablets of Babylonia , the torn scrolls of the Old Testament , the ...
... everything that this book eventually will have to say has in a sense already been shown, in the same moment of now and then, in the same place of here and there. Every age is retrospective. The cosmological constellations flash back and ...
... everything that this book eventually will have to say has in a sense already been shown , in the same moment of now and then , in the same place of here and there . Every age is retrospective . The cosmological constellations flash back ...
... everything . Highest among the gods , his form was outstanding . 8 Already from birth Marduk is held to be everything , including a pre- monition of Janus , the Roman gatekeeper who from his watchtower at the middle of the bridge ...
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Rumlig praksis: Festskrift til Kirsten Simonsen Keld Buciek,Kirsten Simonsen No preview available - 2006 |