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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... oikumene. The exact motives and purposes of these explorations remain unclear, but Massalia was an important commercial center with a natural interest in the routes to the tin-producing areas of Cornwall and the amber deposits farther ...
... oikumene. The exact mo- tives and purposes of these explorations remain unclear, but Massalia was an important commercial center with a natural interest in the routes to the tin- producing areas of Cornwall and the amber deposits ...
... oikumene reached little more than one third around the globe , the distance to the east greatly exaggerated . " Even so , Eratosthenes ' work was a wonderful achievement , primarily because he tried “ to build a struc- Breadth of known ...
... oikumene as well. The task of the world geographer is even more demanding, for he cannot, as the regional geog- rapher, ignore the fact that the earth is a sphere and therefore more faith- 60 ARALLEL PARALLEL OF 105 120 135 150 165 180 ...
... oikumene was located in the northern latitudes and therefore most readily studied if pictured in the upper right - hand corner of the map . The birth of a conven- tion so ingrained that most map users never even think of it . 15 LIBYE ...
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