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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... earth, no height, no depth, no name.”2 No nothing, not even, as in the younger Genesis, an earth without form and void. In the conception of the Babylonian poet a void was consequently a void-in-and-of-itself, not merely a void of form ...
... earth , no height , no depth , no name . No nothing , not even , as in the younger Genesis , an earth without form and void . 2 دو In the conception of the Babylonian poet a void was consequently a void - in - and - of - itself , not ...
... earth had not ( yet ) been called by a name ; ( When ) Apsu , primeval , their begetter , Mummu , ( and ) Tiamat , she who gave ( Still ) mingled their waters together , birth to them all , And no pasture land had been formed ( and ) ...
... the great deep,” “the primal chaos,” “the bowels of earth,” “the infernal pit.”3 A perfect example of proper name and definite description merged into one.4 From the mingling of Apsu and Tiamat there eventually emerged WHEN ABOVE.
... the great deep,” “the primal chaos,” “the bowels of earth,” “the infernal pit.”3 A perfect example of proper name and definite descrip- tion merged into one.4 From the mingling of Apsu and Tiamat there eventually emerged WHEN ABOVE.
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