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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... relations between the 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 ...
... relations that beam out from every line of Enuma elish and Gilgamesh , from every paragraph of Moses ' first stone tablet , from the treasurous stories about Abr ( ah ) am , Jacob and Job . Add to this the abstract geometries of Plato ...
... relations between the Communist Manifesto and the Soviet Gulag bear him out, for whereas the analyses of the former are easy to accept, the realities of the latter are impossible to excuse. Similar relations between here and now, there ...
... relations ? These were the cryptic orders handed down to me by the Secret Service Headquarters , a set of commands as impossible to fulfill as not to accept : ˇ • lay bare the familiar of the unknown ; find the principles of imagination ...
... * Throughout this prelude I have allowed the concept of the map to play a more fundamental role than the concept of the sign . But what is a sign and what is a map? And which exactly are the relations BORDER - MAN 11.
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Rumlig praksis: Festskrift til Kirsten Simonsen Keld Buciek,Kirsten Simonsen No preview available - 2006 |