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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... those who have crisscrossed the same areas before me , many of them better equipped and more ad- equately prepared . None , however , dressed in my shoes and adorned with my eyes , none with a map like mine , DESIRES NON - SUPPRESSED xi.
A Critique of Cartographic Reason Gunnar Olsson. my eyes , none with a map like mine , none with a compass of the same declination . No painter with my brush , palette and canvas , no poet of my rhyme and reason . What remains is a ...
... eyes out in order to bet- ter see the difference between kings and gods , fathers and brothers ; 4. Nicaea , the summer palace where Jesus Christ , after much theological squabbling , was defined as the most inter - esting being of ...
... eyes , four were his ears ; When his lips moved , fire blazed forth . The four ears were enormous And likewise his eyes ; they perceived everything . Highest among the gods , his form was outstanding . 8 Already from birth Marduk is ...
... eyes welled the Euphrates and Tigris , her paps became moun- tains , her crotch the fulcrum of the sky . The construction of the physi- cal universe completed , he went on to the building of yet another temple and to the arrangement of ...
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