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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... never my cup of tea, perhaps because I felt an urge to do it my way, perhaps because the zealots seemed never to laugh. Rather than joining the self-congratulating crowd I gradually came to see DESIRES NON-SUPPRESSED.
... never my cup of tea, perhaps because I felt an urge to do it my way, perhaps because the zealots seemed never to laugh. Rather than joining the self - congratulating crowd I gradually came DESIRES NON-SUPPRESSED.
... never sleeps in the same bed two nights in a row , its well - guarded residence is where it has always been and where it will always be : in the inter - esting abyss between categories , in the taboo - laden cleft of the excluded middle ...
... never a collection of things - in - themselves . Just as the geneticists keep repeating that the human body is programmed for a life distinctly different from our own , so Bertrand Russell used to say that our ordinary language conveys ...
... never one and the same . Pushed to its limits by its own modalities , the principle of self - reference in fact reveals that perfect translation is impossible , that every representation is a lie . To be human is in that perspective to ...
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