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    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 …Read more
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    The globe, the journey, the table
    Ágalma: Rivista di studi culturali e di estetica 42. 2021.
    The essay focuses on the way our idea of the world changes according to the tools we use to measure and circumscribe its regions and provide its overall configuration. For example, with the voyage of Columbus, precisely as it is subordinated to a geographical image, the world takes on a new face, different from the previous one: it takes shape according to the scheme that man has in mind, and corresponds to the cartographic image of the world, to the map. It is now the world that has to adapt to…Read more
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    Limits of Representation
    with Gunnar Olsson and Dagmar Reichert
    . 1994.
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    Did Anaximander ever Say (or Write) any Words? The Nature of Cartographical Reason
    Ethics, Place and Environment 1 (2): 135-144. 1998.
    This paper focuses on Anaximander's pinax, the first map according to Western tradition. Its aim is to demonstrate that it is only after the realization of the pinax that it was possible to distinguish between Being and beings in a Heideggerian sense, that is to pose the question of the ontological difference. Consequently, all the history of Western thought is nothing but the history of the raising of cartographical representation, and of reason here embodied, from the dark rigidity of death to…Read more