Abysmal: A Critique of Cartographic ReasonUniversity of Chicago Press, 15 mars 2010 - 584 sidor 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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... Enuma elish and Gilgamesh , from every paragraph of Moses ' first stone tablet , from the treasurous stories about Abr ( ah ) am , Jacob and Job . Add to this the abstract geometries of Plato and Euclid , the cunning tricks of Odysseus ...
... Enuma elish, the oldest creation epic yet to be discovered, a drama originally projected onto seven clay tablets now preserved in several editions and various conditions of readability. To us the most fascinating characteristic of that ...
... Enuma elish , the oldest creation epic yet to be discovered , a drama origi- nally projected onto seven clay tablets now preserved in several editions and various conditions of readability . To us the most fascinating charac- teristic ...
... Enuma elish — the two words that have given the epic its name — are usually translated as “ When above , ” while the beginning of the second line means “ And below . ” It is these fix - points of time and place — above , below , when ...
... Enuma elish, the power of Kierkegaard's observation in deed grows out of the small word “and,” the conjunctive (initially classified not as a con- junctive but as a pre- position) by which the gropings of the existential actor are ...
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