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028			_a: Donated by Prof. Romila Thapar
082			_a861.3 FAR
100			_aFarinelli, Franco.
245			_aBlinding Polyphemus. _c/ Franco Farinelli.
260			_a, London _b: Seagull Books _c, 2003.
300			_a236p. _c: 24cm.
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520			_aToday, 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 and unreflective ways, to prior questions about their nature. Blinding Polyphemus not only takes account of the present state of the Earth and of human geography, it redefines the principal models we possess for the description of the world: The map, above all, as well as the landscape, subject, place, city and space.
650			_aPolyphemus
650			_aBlinding Polyphemus
700			_aFranco Farinelli.
942			_cRBK
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