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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... words of the first line of Enuma elish — the two words that have given the epic its name — are usually translated as “ When above , ” while the beginning of the second line means “ And below . ” It is these fix - points of time and ...
... words, for emphasis three times repeated: Lord of the gods, destiny of the great gods, If I am indeed to be your avenger, To vanquish Tiamat and to keep you alive, Convene the assembly and proclaim my lot supreme. When ye are joyfully ...
... words with an emphasis Dixon cannot describe the full strangeness of. Something was up, . . . but before they learn'd to fly, they had to learn about Maps, for maps are the Aides- mémoires of flight. So Dixon came to discover as well ...
... words this invisible point placed at the top of the map may be “ imagined as the north pole , " 40 in Laca- nian terms a sign not real but symbolic . Just as Pytheas half a millennium earlier had anchored his world in the invisible ...
... those debates is that he was not a learned man but essentially an autodidact, rhe- torically weak and ignorant of syntax, vulgar and highly repetitive in his expressions; in the words of a later commentator, his “reading AND BELOW 39.
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