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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... means to be human. Therefore it was with mixed feelings that on the first day of the ninth month of the third millennium (AD) I found myself promoted to the rank of emeritus, a lifelong sabbatical inching towards the ultimate. And as so ...
... means to be human. Therefore it was with mixed feelings that on the first day of the ninth month of the third millennium (AD) I found myself promoted to the rank of emeritus, a lifelong sabbatical inching to- wards the ultimate. And as ...
... means “ And below . ” It is these fix - points of time and place — above , below , when , and and — that form the meshes of the coordi- nate net in which the world is both captured and created . As Edward Casey loves to put it : “ There ...
... means to understand. As in the second line of Enuma elish, the power of Kierkegaard's observation in deed grows out ... mean- ingful whole. From his watchtower at the middle of the bridge he is con- sequently able to keep both sides of ...
... means for finding the way , so the travel story is the most effective device for transporting our imaginations from the utopian No - where to the actual Now - here ; whenever I am saying “ of course , ” what I am really saying is that I ...
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