Abysmal: A Critique of Cartographic ReasonPeople 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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... Gilgamesh , from every paragraph of Moses ' first stone tablet , from the treasurous stories about Abr ( ah ) am , Jacob and Job . Add to this the abstract geometries of Plato and Euclid , the cunning tricks of Odysseus and the horrible ...
... Gilgamesh , through his friendship with Enkidu , learned that he too was eventually to die ; 2. Peniel , the name of the ground where Jacob wrestled with God , saw his face , and survived — perhaps the same place where Job later took ...
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