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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... heavens to which they aspire but in the dungeons they have designed for the others . When it comes down to it , the real question of guilt and punishment is whether the ideologues lost their way because they were scientifically naïve or ...
... heaven, no earth, no height, no depth, no name.”2 No nothing, not even, as in the younger Genesis, an earth without form and void. In the conception of the Babylonian poet a void was consequently a void-in-and-of-itself, not merely a ...
... heaven , no earth , no height , no depth , no name . No nothing , not even , as in the younger Genesis , an earth without form and void . 2 دو In the conception of the Babylonian poet a void was consequently a void - in - and - of ...
... heaven ( and ) earth , who directs the c [ louds ] ; . . . To whom no one among the gods is equal in power . ' 4 دو In the next chapter we will return to this first tale of how the human territory is delimited , of how we find our way ...
... Heaven , the Heaven itself a material projection of social relations . Baby- lon the most marvelous of cities , the center of the world , its own street pattern drawn in the shape of a net , its name , bab - ili , most commonly ...
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