Arkography - A Grand Tour Through the Taken-For-Granted

Informationen zum Autor Gunnar Olsson is an internationally acclaimed and highly distinguished Swedish geographer. He is professor emeritus at the University of Uppsala in Sweden. Olsson is the author of Birds in Egg/Eggs in Bird, Lines of Power/Limits of Language, and Abysmal: A Critique of Cartographic Reason. Klappentext Gunnar Olsson’s tale follows an explorer from the oldest creation epics extant to the power struggles of today, an attempt to codify the taken-for-granted, a struggle with the invisible powers that make us so obedient and so predictable.   Zusammenfassung Gunnar Olsson's tale follows an explorer from the oldest creation epics extant to the power struggles of today, an attempt to codify the taken-for-granted, a struggle with the invisible powers that make us so obedient and so predictable. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface: Who Is Who and What Is What? I: Red River Wake Enuma elish Gilgamesh Genesis Exodus Platopolis II: Imaginare Necesse Est Saussurean Bar The Republic Edging Island of Truth Mappa Mundi Universalis III: Crystal Palace Inside Basement Prophets’ Hall Ball Room Attic Penthouse IV: Archives Travelogue Notes Hidden references Alpha and Omega Given Index

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Gunnar Olsson
• Verlag: University of Nebraska Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 31.05.2020
• EAN: 9781496220295
• ISBN: 978-1-4962-2029-5
• Seiten: 228
• Serien: Cultural Geographies + Rewriti; Cultural Geographies + Rewriting the Earth
• Themen: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Geowissenschaften > Geografie; Sachbuch > Philosophie, Religion > Sonstiges; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, Humangeographie, PHILOSOPHY / Religious