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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... geometry . What drives the search is a herme- neutics of suspicion , a mode of argument which says that the strength of cartographical reason lies less in its ability to tell the truth and more in its power to convince . Finally , the ...
... geometric pictures and bloody stories drawn from the most decisive episodes in the perpetual war of what it means to be human . Yet another set of local habitations provided with proper names and definite descriptions , yet another ...
... geometry of the cross, its roots anchored not in the symbolism of Golgotha but in the opening words of Enuma elish, its branches not in the outstretched arms of the Savior but in the canonical positions of up and down, front and back ...
... geometry had already taught him . If so , then Pytheas may be best described as a paradigmatic scientist obsessed by the idea of combining theoretical insights with direct observations , in effect a geometer of intersecting lines turned ...
... geometry of the sphere he also deduced that there must be a parallel of latitude at which, at the time of the summer solstice, the sun never sets and the day lasts for twenty- four hours. Moreover, he reckoned this circle to lie on the ...
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