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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... story reaches far back, at least to the early 1960s, when as a curious research student I had just been recruited to the Regiment of Quantitative Geography, lured into the ranks less by the siren songs of power, more by the beauty of ...
... story reaches far back, at least to the early 1960s, when as a curious research student I had just been recruited to the Regi- ment of Quantitative Geography, lured into the ranks less by the siren songs of power, more by the beauty of ...
... story of how those particular locations have been generated ? Is it at all possible to draw valid inferences about human behavior from a map of spatial distri- butions , to reason from form to process ? The short answer is that such ...
... story is the most effective device for transporting our imaginations from the utopian No - where to the actual Now - here ; whenever I am saying “ of course , ” what I am really saying is that I am on course , that I am steered the way ...
... story but that every map is a record of mistranslation , hence a major confrontation with the limits of representation . The second raid — the subsection entitled INSTRUMENTS — takes us deeper into this crucial problem of translation ...
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