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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... Odysseus and the horrible fate of King Oedipus , and the humus of west- ern culture lies there before us ready to be tilled . The Renaissance masters and the Orthodox icon - makers did it , Paul Cézanne and Mark Rothko , Marcel Duchamp ...
... Odysseus ' return and Abr ( ah ) am's leaving , the former an ex- ample of informative reformulation , the latter a handbook in institution- alized terror . Finally , there is a mapping of the Island of Truth ( a very at- tractive name ) ...
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