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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... semiotic on the spear side , rhetorical on the spindle side . Different as these modes of communication may be , they are neverthe- less connected because both of them are rooted in desire — a desire so de- sirous that it can never be ...
... semiotics of the sign , especially to the role of the Saussurean Bar , an- other to the theory of proper names and definite descriptions , a third to the rhetorical strategies of geometry . What drives the search is a herme- neutics of ...
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