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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... once were and of those futures that have yet to come. Given the Greek fear of the void, it is not surprising that Janus was invented in Rome and not in Athens. In the lands surrounding the Mare nostrum he was in fact everywhere to be ...
... once could claim that the unconscious is structured like a 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 ...
... Once these heavenly bodies were in place , Marduk returned to Tia- mat's corpse , cutting it up into pieces to which he allotted new functions : out of her eyes welled the Euphrates and Tigris , her paps became moun- tains , her crotch ...
... once understandable , but to us — the latecomers — the meaning of the apeiron is virtually ungraspable . For so totally boundless is this concept that it lies before and beyond every distinguishable category . And at least in that sense ...
... once a year, its walls cast no shadow, the angle to the sun equal to zero degrees. Since this rare event always occurred on the day of the summer solstice, it meant that Syene must be located right on the Tropic of Cancer, the imaginary ...
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