Blinding Polyphemus: Geography and the Models of the World

by Franco Farinelli

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0857423789
• ISBN13: 9780857423788
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Seagull Books
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.1"