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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... Greek fear of the void, it is not surprising that Janus was invented in Rome and not in Athens. In the lands surrounding the Mare nostrum he was in fact everywhere to be seen, for not only was his image stamped on practically every coin ...
... Greek comic character eiron, a clever underdog who by his wits tri- umphs over the boastful and tragic alaon. The point is, of course, that even though comedy is often more revealing than tragedy, the two genres are related like the two ...
... Greek traveler who some time before 320 BCE left his home town for an adventurous journey to the northernmost limits of the oikumene. The exact motives and purposes of these explorations remain unclear, but Massalia was an important ...
... Greek traveler who some time before 320 BCE left his home town for an adven- turous journey to the northernmost limits of the oikumene. The exact mo- tives and purposes of these explorations remain unclear, but Massalia was an important ...
... Greek habit of symmetrical thinking , that same ordering device now kept his critics from realizing that the world as he saw it was the world as it actually is ; as in the earlier case of Marduk , Pytheas ' destinies were determined by ...
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