Early Modern (Ir) Rationalization of the Other: World Maps and Anatomical Illustrations

Bu makale hem sunuş modu (kendisine bakış) hem de skopik araç (diğerlerine bakış) açısından Erken Dünya’nın ilk dönem modern haritalarının diğerlerine canavar ve/veya kadın vücuduna sahip şekilde bir bakış açısına sahip olan Avrupalı bakış açısını nasıl yorumladığı hakkındadır. Hem modern çağların ilk dönemindeki haritalar hem de anatomik resimler, retorik çalışmalarına sıklıkla başarılı şekilde baskın gelen modernlik kavramı açısından değerlendirilmiş ve bedensellik ya da oransızlık terimleriyle öteki kavramını keşfetmeye, bilmeye, eğitmeye ve sömürgeleştirmeye çalışan beyaz adamın çalışmalarının bir sonucu olarak incelemektedir.

Ötekinin İlk Modern (İr) Rasyonelleştirmesi: Dünya Haritaları ve Anatomik Resimler

The essay investigates how early modern maps of the New World both as a mode of representation (i.e., a view of the self) and as a scopic instrument (i.e., a view of the other) translated the European view of the other as monstrous and/or female body (the latter on the verge of object-ification), consonant with its representation in anatomical illustrations belonging to the early modern “culture of dissection.” Both early modern maps and anatomical illustrations were predicated on the disciplinary zeal of modernity, which often successfully suppressed the workings of its rhetoric, and were the output of white men trying to conquer, know, tame and colonize a confected other construed in terms of (abject) bodiliness or irrationality.

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