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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... 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 resistance of a reflecting wall there would be no images to capture , hence nothing to understand ...
... mind which allows him to merge seemingly contradictory categories into one mean- ingful whole. From his watchtower at the middle of the bridge he is con- sequently able to keep both sides of the abyss under constant surveillance, in the ...
... mind is wired. Why, and how, for instance, did the Romans elevate this categorial juggler to godly status, when we diagnose his counterparts as schizophrenic madmen? Why did they afford him a special place in their pantheon, while we ...
... mind state and a brain state , the former an issue of understanding human understanding , the latter a matter of ... minds but our bodies too . It is by sharing our common understandings that we show who we are . Such is the ideal . As ...
... mind , in anger her wits are scattered . And then : Face to face they came , Tiamat and Marduk , sage of the gods . They engaged in combat , they closed for battle . The Lord spread his net and made it encircle her , To her face he ...
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