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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... 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 lifelong sabbatical inching ...
... 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 lifelong sabbatical inching to ...
... crucial to stress , however , that just as the map ( of which the sign is merely a special case ) is our privi- leged means for finding the way , so the travel story is the most effective device for transporting our imaginations from ...
... crucial problem of translation , one chapter devoted to the semiotics of the sign , especially to the role of the Saussurean Bar , an- other to the theory of proper names and definite descriptions , a third to the rhetorical strategies ...
... Crucial in deed, for it was none less than Leon Battista Alberti who in his rhetoric- based theory of painting “took from Quintilian a classification of the seven pos- sible types of movement that an orator might have to make and that a ...
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