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Book SynopsisGunnar 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.
Trade Review“This book is a significant contribution to what might be configured as the meeting points between academic geography, Western philosophy, critical social science, and arts-humanistic experimentation. It is the major reference point, the go-to source, for anyone wishing to familiarize themselves with the extraordinarily rich arc of Olsson’s thinking over the past four-plus decades.”—Christopher Philo, professor of geography at the University of Glasgow
“Olsson continues to be an exciting thinker because he situates key problems within the field of geography in the broader contexts of Western humanism. . . . A fun, weird, inspiring, and engaging theoretical work. . . . It is a fascinating contribution that will likely be viewed as the capstone work of a major thinker.”—Keith Woodward, assistant professor of geography at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
Table of ContentsPreface: 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
