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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... invisible maps of the invisible and by following cultural compasses whose needle points us not to the physical existence of the magnetic north pole but to the social subsistence of the culturally taken - for - granted . For the moment ...
... invisible! Invisible like the fish down there in the water, the prey that I have come down here to the bridge in order to tempt with my bait and catch on my hook, the thin fishing line and my capacity to imagine the only connections ...
... invisible spirits , sometimes , like the twentieth century physicists , baptizing invisible matter . No peace in sight , for who can ever tell whether God plays dice . D. The purpose of the collation - chapter — effectively a cabinet ...
... invisible gods , sometimes as untouchable matter . Four sites to visit , four maps to be drawn : 1. Uruk , the walled city where Gilgamesh , through his friendship with Enkidu , learned that he too was eventually to die ; 2. Peniel ...
... invisible mark of this ontological transformation is nothing but the construction of the fourth corner in a rectangle whose other cor- ners sometimes, albeit only under favorable conditions, may be glimpsed from afar. Demonstrating how ...
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Rumlig praksis: Festskrift til Kirsten Simonsen Keld Buciek,Kirsten Simonsen No preview available - 2006 |