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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... Jacob and Job . Add to this the abstract geometries of Plato and Euclid , the cunning tricks of Odysseus and the horrible fate of King Oedipus , and the humus of west- ern culture lies there before us ready to be tilled . The ...
... Jacob Isaacson wrestling with invisible spirits , sometimes , like the twentieth century physicists , baptizing invisible matter . No peace in sight , for who can ever tell whether God plays dice . D. The purpose of the collation ...
... Jacob wrestled with God , saw his face , and survived — perhaps the same place where Job later took his Lord to court ; 3. Thebes , the city where King Oedipus stuck his eyes out in order to bet- ter see the difference between kings and ...
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