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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... chap- ters I try to explicate the techniques by which we make the absent present and the present absent . First comes a reconstruction of Filippo Brunelle- schi's perspective and a mapping of Plato's Republic , then two comparative ...
... his enemies — he was dressed up again in his robe of stars and stripes , an embodied constellation of points and lines projected onto the canvas of the sky itself . AND BELOW When I was a little chap I had WHEN ABOVE 23.
A Critique of Cartographic Reason Gunnar Olsson. AND. BELOW. When I was a little chap I had a passion for maps. . . . At that time there were many blank spaces on the earth, and when I saw one that looked particularly inviting on a map ...
A Critique of Cartographic Reason Gunnar Olsson. AND. BELOW. When I was a little chap I had a passion for maps. . . . At that time there were many blank spaces on the earth, and when I saw one that looked particularly inviting on a map ...
... chap- ter ( “ Nicaea ” ) it will resurface again . For the moment it suffices to note that the controversy was temporarily resolved by the Council of Chalcedon in 451. However , as none of the factions was willing to accept the proposed ...
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Rumlig praksis: Festskrift til Kirsten Simonsen Keld Buciek,Kirsten Simonsen No preview available - 2006 |