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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... ontological transformations. Dreams are such stuff that we are made of. It was Søren Kierkegaard's genius to lay bare these theatrical roots of irony, basic insights which the existentialists of the twentieth century were eager to adopt ...
... ontological transformation ; draw a map of the Territory of the Humans , ( re ) trace its fluctuating boundaries and find its stable center ; produce an atlas of what it means to be human ; · · initiate a critique of cartographical ...
... ontological transformations . The magician of power in outstanding performance . Let there be ! And there is . Ovations rising to the sky , on this particular occasion in Babylon , later in Jerusalem , eventually in Washington , D.C. ...
... ontological transformation , yet another instance of in- visible ideology turned into touchable stone , the Earth made a mirror of Heaven , the Heaven itself a material projection of social relations . Baby- lon the most marvelous of ...
... ontological transformations where earthly people ap- pear as projections of heavenly gods , social relations as signs in the sky . And to me this is the central message of the Enuma elish : the world created is the mirror image of the ...
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Rumlig praksis: Festskrift til Kirsten Simonsen Keld Buciek,Kirsten Simonsen No preview available - 2006 |