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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... exactly this issue of logic and rhetoric that has been at the core of my entire life , the activities of teaching and research inseparably united . The freshman and the emeritus are in it together , the reflections in the mirror not ...
... . * Throughout this prelude I have allowed the concept of the map to play a more fundamental role than the concept of the sign . But what is a sign and what is a map? And which exactly are the relations BORDER - MAN 11.
A Critique of Cartographic Reason Gunnar Olsson. what is a map? And which exactly are the relations between them? How are their respective limits de- termined and their borders circum- scribed? How do I condense the infra- thin tympanum ...
... exactly this marvelous merger of astronomy and geography that Pytheas achieved. In addition, he was the first to argue that the Ocean tides obey the commands of the man in the moon, shining light in the dark. But the Massaliote made ...
... exactly at midday on June 21 of an unknown year, the historical moment at which Eratosthenes, gnomon in hand, stepped out of the Library and into the sun. Prompted to talk, the instru- ment revealed that the angle between its top and ...
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