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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... the synthetic original unity of apperception, I am conscious of myself, neither as I appear to myself, nor as I am in myself, but only that I am. This representation is an act of thought, not an intuition. [It 6 PRELUDE.
... thought about, practicing geographer in the language he thought within. C. From these preliminary incursions into Lands Unknown back to the tabernacle and a thanks-giving COLLATION of another type. A debriefing and a pep talk, a feast ...
... thought-and-action which is constantly in the process of being resurrected. The first part of this Mass for the repose of the souls of the dead takes us to Philadelphia, Thomas Pynchon's heavenly City and crowded niche of Hell, the ...
... thought, it can never be seen. No mean feat, for the invisible mark of this ontological transformation is nothing but the construction of the fourth corner in a rectangle whose other corners sometimes, albeit only under favorable ...
... thought and many drowned seamen before the measuring of meridians reached the same level of accuracy as the measuring of latitudes. In deed it did not occur until the mid-eighteenth century, when the British horologist John Harrison ...
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Rumlig praksis: Festskrift til Kirsten Simonsen Keld Buciek,Kirsten Simonsen No preview available - 2006 |