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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... metaphor is chosen deliberately , for social democratic welfare theory is a special case of utilitarianism and thereby of the principle of happiness maximization . But an integral part of that same conception is also that the goodness ...
... metaphors explode into metonymic chains of novel meanings? Perhaps the answer lies in the geometry of the cross, its roots anchored not in the symbolism of Golgotha but in the opening words of Enuma elish, its branches not in the ...
... metaphorical midriff of a world which breathes , laughs and suffers its hiccups . Its beginning lay somewhere in the waters beyond the Pillars of Heracles ( the Straits of Gibraltar ) , from where it hugged the axis of the Mediterranean ...
... metaphorical counterpart of Celsius ' zero , the limit at which fleeting ideas freeze into concrete things and concrete things evaporate into thin air . So here it is , the scale — in effect the coordinate net — of Plato's map of maps ...
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