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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... taken - for - granted.2 Suffice it to say that out of the original models of spatial form rose the question of how the highly predictable patterns of human interaction should be interpreted . Which are the relations between the picture ...
... taken - for - granted . For the moment , however , all one needs to note is that the very first words of the first ... captured and created . As Edward Casey loves to put it : “ There is no creation without place . " 995 Here — as in any ...
... takes in a certain possible perfection of our knowledge of an object . ” 1 In that context it is crucial to stress ... taken - for - granted . If we want to achieve objectivity in our observa- tions , we are consequently obliged to ...
... took his Lord to court ; 3. Thebes , the city where King Oedipus stuck his eyes out in order to bet- ter see the ... taken - for - granted . At the center of that edifice lies the kicking corpse of modernity . The second part of the ...
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