Sunday, 6 October 2019

Thought for the Day

Maps of the intellectual landscape are always awkward affairs. The boundaries between different subjects are not entirely contingent — reasons can always be found for the fences to run this way rather than that — but neither do they seem to correspond to any clearly defined, ‘natural’ divisions. And, as we know, maps are instruments of power: even (especially) maps of an intellectual landscape.

Derek Gregory & Rex Walford (1989)

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