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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... Republic , then two comparative readings of Odysseus ' return and Abr ( ah ) ... Plato's Republic and thereby with the taboos of the excluded middle of ... the mis- sion . The outcome of that endeavor is an ATLAS 10 PRELUDE.
... the message of the Christian Topography was quickly forgotten and not brought to light again until 1776, when a Latin ... Plato's concepts of Form and Idea remained forever present, the Divided Line of the Republic nothing but the map of ...
... the relations between invisible ideas and visible things . Much of it can be read as creative explo- rations of Plato — by Plotinus often referred to simply as “ he ” —not the least of the Divided Line of the Republic , the scale by which “ ...
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