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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... fix - points of time and place — above , below , when , and and — that form the meshes of the coordi- nate net in which the world is both captured and created . As Edward Casey loves to put it : “ There is no creation without place ...
... point A to point F. A. First this brief PRELUDE , an attempt to set the tone and prepare the way for the critique to come ... fix - points and base - lines that later will be used in the mappings of what it means to be human , the real ...
... points was derived from the travel speed of camel caravans , hardly a precise unit of measurement ; and ( d ) nobody ... fix - point of fix - points was no longer the Library of Alexandria but the observatory on top of Mount Atabyrion on ...
... point of fix - points . What I see in the sky depends on where I stand on the earth . Also the Geography dealt with issues of representation , but there the focus was on the more limited problem of how to draw a picture of the inhabited ...
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