Blinding Polyphemus

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 of nineteenthcentury 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.