Abysmal
Subtitle: A Critique of Cartographic Reason
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: March 1, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 584
ISBN-13: 9780226629308
Subjects: Cartography, geodesy & geographic information systems (GIS); Cultural studies; Cartography; Earth Sciences - Geography; History & Surveys - General; Science / Geography; History & Surveys - Modern; Philosophy; 20th century; 21st century; Philosophy, Modern
Description: People rely on reason to navigate the abstract world of human relations in the same way they rely on maps to traverse the physical world. This work offers a critique of the way human thought and action have become immersed in the rhetoric of cartography and how this cartographic reasoning allows the powerful to map out other people's lives.