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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... latter are impossible to excuse. Similar relations between here and now, there and then, are constitu- tive not only of modern ideologies but of religious mythologies, espe- cially when the connections are expressed through the figure ...
... latter a matter of under- standing insensate molecules ( itself , of course , a form of understanding ) .14 Thus , while it is the business of imagination to connect , it is the purpose of understanding to make the principles of ...
... latter a temporary state which strikes extraordinary men under extraordinary cir- cumstances. To both authors an incongruity between ideal concepts and objective reality.20 No wonder, therefore, that we tend to read tragedy alone and ...
... latter a handbook in institution- alized terror . Finally , there is a mapping of the Island of Truth ( a very at- tractive name ) , a continent which was originally discovered by Immanuel Kant , he himself the most outstanding student ...
... latter unknown not only to Babylonian but to Hebrew writers as well. On this rendering the Enuma elish emerges as nothing less than a search for the topos of topoi, a text more concerned with the creation of people than with the ...
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