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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... thought- and- action!1 A kick between the goal posts. The beginning of that story reaches far back, at least to the early 1960s, when as a curious research student I had just been recruited to the Regi- ment of Quantitative Geography ...
... thought of a tabula rasa is literally unimaginable.8 Like- wise , if it were not for the resistance of a reflecting wall there would be no images to capture , hence nothing to understand either . The aim of the present study is ...
... thought about , practicing geog- rapher in the language he thought within . C. From these preliminary incursions into Lands Unknown back to the tabernacle and a thanks - giving COLLATION of another type . A debrief- ing and a pep talk ...
... thought which eventually made the mythical image of the Ocean fade into the rational geography of later explorers , most prominent among them Alexander in the southeast and Pytheas in the northwest , the former in his youth tutored by ...
... thought, it can never be seen. No mean feat, for the invisible mark of this ontological transformation is nothing but the construction of the fourth corner in a rectangle whose other cor- ners sometimes, albeit only under favorable ...
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Rumlig praksis: Festskrift til Kirsten Simonsen Keld Buciek,Kirsten Simonsen No preview available - 2006 |