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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... language better suited to the task ? The answer is yes , except that an- swer does itself create problems of another and equally serious kind . The reason is that it is not enough to render the world as it is ; I must also be believed ...
... language conveys the metaphysics of the Stone Age . If it is true that memory is the intersection of mind and matter , 7 then it follows that the thought of a tabula rasa is literally unimaginable.8 Like- wise , if it were not for the ...
... language, to live in the conjunction between one expression and another. At least in that context it is literally true that in the beginning is the word; as every Jew, Muslim, and Chris- tian knows, the Enuma elish is not alone in ...
... 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 chimpanzees know how to lie does not mean that they also know how to write their ...
... language , so I now retort that power is structured like a map . Seemingly a crystal palace , this Mappa Mundi Universalis is in actuality a power - filled instrument for understanding how we are made so obedient and so predictable ...
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