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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... fathers and brothers ; 4. Nicaea , the summer palace where Jesus Christ , after much theological squabbling , was defined as the most inter - esting being of beings . E. End of the end , begin the beguine . Hence a return to the present ...
... father saw him he beamed with pride and his heart was filled with joy . In deed : He made him so perfect that his godhead was doubled . Elevated far above them , he was superior in every way . His limbs were ingeniously made beyond ...
... fathers ) saw how effective his utterance was , they all rejoiced , blessed their Lord and chanted MARDUK IS KING , OUR KING IS MARDUK ! Bestowing upon him the scepter , the throne and the royal robe , the as- sembly then send him off ...
... fathers : In the former time you inhabited the void above the abyss , but I have made Earth as the mirror of Heaven , I have consolidated the soil for the founda- tions , and there I will build my city , my beloved home . . . . It shall ...
... father of geography,” the first who dared to draw the world on a map)3 called to apeiron, a primordial substance from which everything was said to grow and into which everything was held to return; the origin of all things; an ...
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