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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... theory is a special case of utilitarianism and thereby of the principle of happiness maximization . But an integral part of that same conception is also that the goodness of a given act should be judged in terms of its consequences ...
... theory of proper names and definite descriptions , a third to the rhetorical strategies of geometry . What drives the search is a herme- neutics of suspicion , a mode of argument which says that the strength of cartographical reason ...
... theory of painting “took from Quintilian a classification of the seven pos- sible types of movement that an orator might have to make and that a painter might have to reproduce: up or down, to the right or the left, for- ward or ...
... theories of Aristotle and Eratosthenes than in the alleged facts of Strabo and Marinus . Ptolemy's first and most serious mistake was to accept the geocentric theory according to which the nonrevolving earth is placed at the center of ...
... theory of dynamics; rejected was the idea about the thrown discus being pushed by the air behind it, accepted was instead the argument that the thrower imparts a kind of kinetic power into whatever is thrown, a power which is lodged in ...
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