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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... Lord to court; 3. Thebes, the city where King Oedipus stuck his eyes out in order to better see the difference between kings and gods, fathers and brothers; 4. Nicaea, the summer palace where Jesus Christ, after much theological ...
... Lord of lords. Regardless of how it is categorized, this ancient text is a crucial document, for what it does is to lay bare the rhetorical techniques through which undifferentiated chaos is turned into differentiated cosmos. Since it ...
... Lord,”10 initially rejoiced then immediately proceeded to list the conditions under which he would accept the challenge. These were his words, for emphasis three times repeated: Lord of the gods, destiny of the great gods, If I am ...
... Lord of lords, God of gods. They erected for him a throne, they gave him sovereignty over the whole universe, and, as a premonition of what was later to reappear in the Christian confession, they observed that to trespass is to sin ...
... Lord spreading his net! If the dictator of Iraq ever wanted an instructor in biological warfare, he need not go far to find him. If the generals of the Pentagon ever wished to know more about the relations between cartographical ...
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