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==Timekeeping, Synchronicity, and Nodal Representation== | ==Timekeeping, Synchronicity, and Nodal Representation== | ||
[[image:metrosm.gif|thumb|right|A Moscow Subway Map:Knowledge of the transportation system makes the city's geographic distribution less important than the internal logic of nodal distribution.]] | [[image:metrosm.gif|thumb|right|A Moscow Subway Map:Knowledge of the transportation system makes the city's geographic distribution less important than the internal logic of nodal distribution.]] | ||
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==Legacies of the flat representation of Curvilinear Space== | ==Legacies of the flat representation of Curvilinear Space== | ||
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[[image:gps.jpg|thumb|left|GPS has enabled unprecedented precision in mapping and navigation]] | [[image:gps.jpg|thumb|left|GPS has enabled unprecedented precision in mapping and navigation]] | ||
[[image:plugincity.jpg|thumb|left|Archigram's Plug-in City imagined a networked megastructure that could support "plugged-in" interchangeable spaces]] | [[image:plugincity.jpg|thumb|left|Archigram's Plug-in City imagined a networked megastructure that could support "plugged-in" interchangeable spaces]] |
Revision as of 12:01, 26 March 2008
"The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as picture." - Heidegger, "The Age of the World Picture"
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Among the most influential taxonomic projects that emerged from
Contents
Historical Context
Sundials - The original Real-Time Display
Ptolemy - Projecting the Grid
The Shape of the Earth - Towards a more precise map
Longitude and the World-Picture
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Greenwich and the Longitude Prize
Timekeeping, Synchronicity, and Nodal Representation
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Legacies of the flat representation of Curvilinear Space
Staying Tuned: Towards a Distributed Nomadic Standard
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