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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... understanding backwards—a crucial condition of what it means to be human. Therefore it was with mixed feelings that on the first day of the ninth month of the third millennium (AD) I found myself promoted to the rank of emeritus, a ...
... understanding backwards—a crucial condition of what it means to be human. Therefore it was with mixed feelings that on the first day of the ninth month of the third millennium (AD) I found myself promoted to the rank of emeritus, a ...
... understanding that everything I have to say is deeply rooted in the past . In deed I am often less impressed by the splendid analyses of today than by the wisdoms of the broken clay tablets of Babylonia , the torn scrolls of the Old ...
... understanding is negotiated. And in the invagination of that abyss lies the palace of Apsu, the hidden but well- established seat of power. Ideally I would like to become one with this preposition- turned- conjunctive.10 At the same ...
... understanding how Janus stayed sane while ordinary people in similar situations of double bind go crazy, I will try to place him on the operation table, cut his skull open, lay his brain bare, investigate how his mind is wired. Why, and ...
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