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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... Mappae mundi medievalis 57 Nicaea 331 REQUIEM Philadelphia 367 Uppsala 411 INSTRUMENTS Saussurean bar A = B 87 Quod erat 99 79 IMAGINATIONS Plato 115 Abr(ah)am 163 Moses 181 Kant 213 MEMORIALS Notes 441 Bibliography 505 Proper names 537 ...
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