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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... tion on the beaches , long hours in the Parisian cafés , peaceful nights in the Värmland forest , unmeasurable time in the arms of a grandchild . But if seventy years from now I somehow came to know that these four little creatures had ...
... 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.
... tion formed in the image of the Almighty but a savage concoction stirred together from the blood of the slaughtered Kingu , mankind a dish of Boudins à la Mésopotamie . Nothing like a perfect copy of the perfect origi- nal , merely a ...
... tion was taken on a tour through the Hall of Armory , where the intricate construction of the net was explained and the workmanship admired . To top it off , the banquet closed with the performance of a liturgy in which the occult was ...
... tion is enough to verify the entire series. From his deep knowledge of the geometry of the sphere he also deduced that there must be a parallel of latitude at which, at the time of the summer solstice, the sun never sets and the day ...
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