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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... taken - for - granted.2 Suffice it to say that out of the original models of spatial form rose the question of how the highly predictable patterns of human interaction should be interpreted . Which are the relations between the picture ...
... taken - for - granted . For the moment , however , all one needs to note is that the very first words of the first line of Enuma elish — the two words that have given the epic its name — are usually translated as “ When above , ” while ...
... takes in a certain possible perfection of our knowledge of an object . ” 1 In that context it is crucial to stress ... taken - for - granted . If we want to achieve objectivity in our observa- tions , we are consequently obliged to ...
... takes us to Philadelphia , Thomas Pynchon's heav- enly City and crowded niche of Hell , the place where Marcel ... taken - for - granted . At the center of that edifice lies the kicking corpse of modernity . The second part of the ...
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