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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... gods had been brought into being , ( When ) they had not ( yet ) been called by ( their ) name ( s , and their ) destinies had not ( yet ) been fixed.3 * When they had not yet been called by their names and their destinies had not yet ...
... gods need their privacy too. Janus' main concerns were one with my own: creativity, power, social- ization. Defiantly I therefore pray again, Oh Janus! Help me become a sinner. Let me understand how you break definitions and thereby ...
... God , saw his face , and survived — perhaps the same place where Job later took his Lord to court ; 3. Thebes , the city where King Oedipus stuck his eyes out in order to bet- ter see the difference between kings and gods , fathers and ...
... gods , each generation wiser and more intelligent than its prede- cessor , the figure of Nudimmud - Ea the most outstanding of them all . But noise annoys and as typical teenagers the youngsters eventually became such a nuisance that ...
... gods, destiny of the great gods, If I am indeed to be your avenger, To vanquish Tiamat and to keep you alive, Convene the assembly and proclaim my lot supreme. When ye are joyfully seated together in the Court of Assembly, May I through ...
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Rumlig praksis: Festskrift til Kirsten Simonsen Keld Buciek,Kirsten Simonsen No preview available - 2006 |