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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... painter with my brush , palette and canvas , no poet of my rhyme and reason . What remains is a genuine sense of awe , a stunned admiration for the insights into power and human relations that beam out from every line of Enuma elish and ...
... paint their self- portraits. Likewise, a dog may well expect his master to come home, but not that he will come home next week. But I, in my capacity as a human being, I know not only how to write my autobiography and paint my self ...
... painting “took from Quintilian a classification of the seven pos- sible types of movement that an orator might have to make and that a painter might have to reproduce: up or down, to the right or the left, for- ward or backward, in a ...
... painter he sensed that no one but a man skilled in the imitative art of drawing can picture a hydra with many faces and hidden arses. One problem solved, another created as the smoke from the sacrificial burning was seeping into the ...
... painter's canvas and the movie- maker's screen. This third step of projection was in many ways the most crucial, for ... paint a portrait of the entire oikumene as well. The task of the world geographer is even more demanding, for he ...
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Rumlig praksis: Festskrift til Kirsten Simonsen Keld Buciek,Kirsten Simonsen No preview available - 2006 |