Abysmal: A Critique of Cartographic ReasonUniversity of Chicago Press, 15 de març 2010 - 584 pàgines People 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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... gods had been brought into being , ( When ) they had not ( yet ) been called by ( their ) name ( s , and their ) destinies had not ( yet ) been fixed.3 * When they had not yet been called by their names and their destinies had not yet ...
... gods need their privacy too. Janus' main concerns were one with my own: creativity, power, social- ization. Defiantly I therefore pray again, Oh Janus! Help me become a sinner. Let me understand how you break definitions and thereby ...
... God , saw his face , and survived — perhaps the same place where Job later took his Lord to court ; 3. Thebes , the city where King Oedipus stuck his eyes out in order to bet- ter see the difference between kings and gods , fathers and ...
... god Marduk gains and retains his elevated position as the Lord of lords. Regardless of how it is catego- rized, this ancient text is a crucial document, for what it does is to lay bare the rhetorical techniques through which ...
... gods , each generation wiser and more intelligent than its prede- cessor , the figure of Nudimmud - Ea the most ... god Ea , superior in understanding , learns about the plot . Through a magic spell he puts Apsu to sleep , removes his ...
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