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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... Pytheas from Massalia (presently Marseilles), the Greek traveler who some time before 320 BCE left his home town for an adventurous journey to the northernmost limits of the oikumene. The exact motives and purposes of these explorations ...
... Pytheas from Massalia (presently Marseilles), the Greek traveler who some time before 320 BCE left his home town for an adven- turous journey to the northernmost limits of the oikumene. The exact mo- tives and purposes of these ...
... Pytheas in the northwest , the former in his youth tutored by none less than Aristotle himself , the latter a man of unknown provenance . On the return from his encounters with the unfamiliar , Pytheas wrote a report significantly ...
... Pytheas achieved. In addition, he was the first to argue that the Ocean tides obey the commands of the man in the moon, shining light in the dark. But the Massaliote made observations in broad daylight as well, the first person to have ...
... Pytheas ' story hard to accept . For whereas his invention of paral- lels of latitude fit well into the Greek habit of symmetrical thinking , that same ordering device now kept his critics from realizing that the world as he saw it was ...
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