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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... Ludwig Wittgenstein in the preface of the Tractatus , I too would have liked to write a good book . Too late for that , especially as his attempt was surely good enough , mine nothing but a temptation impossible to resist . The ...
... Ludwig Wittgenstein's oft - quoted remark that “ if I were sometimes to see quite new surroundings from my window instead of the long familiar ones , if things , humans , and animals were to behave as they never did before , then I ...
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