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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... picture of a point pattern and the story of how those particular locations have been generated ? Is it at all possible to draw valid inferences about human behavior from a map of spatial distri- butions , to reason from form to process ...
... picture and a story but that every map is a record of mistranslation , hence a major confrontation with the limits of representation . The second raid — the subsection entitled INSTRUMENTS — takes us deeper into this crucial problem of ...
... pictures and bloody stories drawn from the most decisive episodes in the perpetual war of what it means to be human . Yet another set of local habitations provided with proper names and definite descriptions , yet another attempt to ...
... picture of the inhabited world either as a sphere on a globe or as a plane surface on a map . Seemingly eager to tie the diverging approaches of the Almagest and the Geography together , Ptolemy professed that “ these things belong to ...
... 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 room instead of passing through the chimney. And thus it was that Emerson smoaked it ...
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