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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... 411 INSTRUMENTS Saussurean bar A = B 87 Quod erat 99 79 IMAGINATIONS Plato 115 Abr(ah)am 163 Moses 181 Kant 213 MEMORIALS Notes 441 Bibliography 505 Proper names 537 (In)definite descriptions 547 Acknowledgments 555 CONTENTS.
... imagination . If , as it seems , the realities of power cannot be unambiguously ren- dered in the syntax of conventional reason , does that mean that if one wants to accumulate knowledge about human action , then one must find a ...
... imagination explicit by relating them to the thesis that “ the consciousness of my own existence is , at the same ... imaginations from the utopian No - where to the actual Now - here ; whenever I am saying “ of course , ” what I am ...
... imagination and specify the rules of ontological transformation ; draw a map of the Territory of the Humans , ( re ) trace its fluctuating boundaries and find its stable center ; produce an atlas of what it means to be human ...
... real being but a Hollywood imagination. * Too much for one bite, constipation in the making. Chewing the cud the only relief. Communion in another form. Vitruvian men. Photo montage by Tommy Westberg. MAPPINGS WHEN ABOVE 12 PRELUDE.
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