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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... realm of Mindscape located at the top , the beastly caves of Rockscape at the bottom . To be human is in that perspective to be engaged in a perpetual two - front war , sometimes in the manner of Jacob Isaacson wrestling with invisible ...
... Realm of Voices and Pain even a mind in the rosiest of sanity . When they are too dangerous to roam free , the town madmen are kept as a responsibility of the Company , confin'd in padded rooms in the Slave Lodge . . . . Some of them ...
... realms identity and difference seemed in perpetual , rhythmic and creative flux.56 Not only was the Nicene defini- tion of Jesus Christ subjected to interminable discussion , the Greek con- ception of the physical universe was likewise ...
... realm of things ” and “ the realm of affections in the soul ” are mapped onto each other . I consequently conceive of Plato's Line in the first instance as a di- viding line , in the second as a divided line ; while the former ...
A Critique of Cartographic Reason Gunnar Olsson. Realm of “ objects " Realm of " affections in the soul " Pure spirit Pure ideas noesis The Intelligible episteme Pure concepts dianoia Concrete beings pistis The Sensible doxa Shadows ...
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Rumlig praksis: Festskrift til Kirsten Simonsen Keld Buciek,Kirsten Simonsen No preview available - 2006 |