Abysmal: A Critique of Cartographic ReasonUniversity of Chicago Press, 2010 M03 15 - 584 páginas 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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... logic more an instance of creative imagination . If , as it seems , the realities of power cannot be unambiguously ren- dered in the syntax of conventional reason , does that mean that if one wants to accumulate knowledge about human ...
... logic , with the bar of Ferdinand de Saussure's linguistics and with the points , lines and planes of Marcel Duchamp's projections . And as a Phoenix out of the ashes rises a map of three lines , a geomet- ric sketch in which the ...
... logical either - or , always a dialectical both / and . Many in one , one in many . Un- graspable multiplicity , like the Hebrew JHWH a tautology defining him- self as a being who is who he is . Jacques Lacan was obviously neither the ...
... logical mongrel without a body or rather a soul which is to the body as the gold to the louis d'or . On these relations little can be said except that it was Anaximander who initiated the radical thought which eventually made the ...
... logic . In line with his creationist critique of Aristotle he consequently insisted that since every nature is in ... logical clarity , he left it in such disarray that a century later he himself was placed under formal anathema . The ...
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