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Blinding Polyphemus: Geography and the Models of the World
Franco Farinelli
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Description for Blinding Polyphemus: Geography and the Models of the World
Hardback. Translator(s): Chalmers, Christina. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: RG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Today, we believe that the map is a copy of the Earth, without realizing that the opposite is true: in our culture the Earth has assumed the form of a map. In Blinding Polyphemus, Franco Farinelli elucidates the philosophical correlation between cultural evolution and shifting cartographies of modern society, giving readers an interdisciplinary study that attempts to understand and redefine the fundamental structures of cartography, architecture, and the notion of space. Following the lessons of nineteenth-century critical German geography, this is a manual of geography without any map. To indicate where things are means already responding, in implicit ... Read more
Today, we believe that the map is a copy of the Earth, without realizing that the opposite is true: in our culture the Earth has assumed the form of a map. In Blinding Polyphemus, Franco Farinelli elucidates the philosophical correlation between cultural evolution and shifting cartographies of modern society, giving readers an interdisciplinary study that attempts to understand and redefine the fundamental structures of cartography, architecture, and the notion of space. Following the lessons of nineteenth-century critical German geography, this is a manual of geography without any map. To indicate where things are means already responding, in implicit ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Seagull Books London Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Greenford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857423788
SKU
V9780857423788
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About Franco Farinelli
Franco Farinelli is professor of human geography and head of the Department of Philosophy and Communication Studies at the Universit di Bologna, and the president of the Italian Geographers Association. Christina Chalmers is a poet, writer, and translator who lives in London.
Reviews for Blinding Polyphemus: Geography and the Models of the World
Through an incredible command of historical sources and classical analogies, the Italian geographer Franco Farinelli traces the victory of the two-dimensional map and the conception of perspectival space that it represents all the way back to Anaximander, if with a particular call-out to Ptolemy's cartography, the rediscovery of which in Renaissance Europe was significant in further reducing the understanding of ... Read more