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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... sense of awe , a stunned admiration for the insights into power and human 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 ...
... sense already been shown, in the same moment of now and then, in the same place of here and there. Every age is retrospective. The cosmological constellations flash back and forth, not the least to Enuma elish, the oldest creation epic ...
... sense already been shown , in the same moment of now and then , in the same place of here and there . Every age is retrospective . The cosmological constellations flash back and forth , not the least to Enuma elish , the oldest creation ...
... sense of the 'number,' is two.”11 Expertly using that particular reasoning mode, the hunchbacked Dane could on one page demonstrate that dialectics is the most powerful of all tools for understanding the past, on another that the same ...
... sense of difference deferred is generated through an ingenious use of meter rather than rhyme, the latter unknown not only to Babylonian but to Hebrew writers as well. On this rendering the Enuma elish emerges as nothing less than a ...
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Rumlig praksis: Festskrift til Kirsten Simonsen Keld Buciek,Kirsten Simonsen No preview available - 2006 |