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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... hand and everyone agrees that diplomacy will no longer do. Ea consequently summons Marduk to his private quarters, asking him to step forth, to show who he is by being equal to himself. Marduk, who for the first time is now addressed as ...
... hand, stepped out of the Library and into the sun. Prompted to talk, the instru- ment revealed that the angle between its top and the sun's rays was seven and one fifth degrees, by ordinary division made equivalent to one fiftieth of a ...
... hand , one assumes that he used the short stade , then the estimate would have been merely 150 kilometers , or 1 percent , wrong ! 21 The underlying errors were several , most importantly ( a ) the location of Syene is not exactly on ...
... if pictured in the upper right - hand corner of the map . The birth of a conven- tion so ingrained that most map users never even think of it . 15 LIBYE EUROPE Parallel through Thule ASIA Parallel through Rhodes. 36 MAPPINGS.
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