Year: 2017
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: This chapter offers glimpses of a life-long struggle with ontological transformations, the abracadabra through which untouchable ideology is stirred into a concoction of material things and social relations—“Let there be…: and there [is],” creativity effectively a speech act, understanding a power-filled exercise in translation. The lessons learned take the author back first to central place theory and its role in the spatial organization of the Swedish welfare state—the affinities between totalitarian thinking and social engineering impossible to deny; then to the structural similarities between tragedy and intentional action—in the beginning everything right, at the end everything wrong, no one to blame in between; finally to the triangulation of cartographic reason and Gunnael Jensson’s Mappa Mundi Universalis—a sculptured study of the trinity , , and , a Duchampian laying bare of what it means to be human, even.
Source: Knowledge and space
Author: Gunnar Olsson
Institution: Uppsala University
Language: English
Topic: Spatial and Cultural Studies
Subfield: Geography, Planning and Development
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W2577541546