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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... realities of power cannot be unambiguously rendered in the syntax of conventional reason, does that mean that if one wants to accumulate knowledge about human action, then one must find a language better suited to the task? The answer ...
... reality always a mediated world, never a collection of things-in-themselves. Just as the geneticists keep repeating that the human body is programmed for a life distinctly different from our own, so Bertrand Russell used to say that our ...
... reality such a feat is impossible, not the least because every understanding, like every translation, is thoroughly ... realities of the latter are impossible to excuse. Similar relations between here and now, there and then, are ...
... reality is different. For immediately I set out on my epistemological journey I am bound to realize that what I want to achieve and what I can achieve are never one and the same. Pushed to its limits by its own modalities, the principle ...
... reality.20 No wonder, therefore, that we tend to read tragedy alone and comedy together, for the former genre is concerned with individuals, the latter with classes. No wonder either that we release our tensions by crying in private and ...
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Rumlig praksis: Festskrift til Kirsten Simonsen Keld Buciek,Kirsten Simonsen No preview available - 2006 |