technology of measurement

is a technology concerned with standardizing measures which contribute to a technology of representation.

In Lost Dimension, Virilio examines the ways that technologies of measurement contribute to a technology of representation. He traces a history of the science of measurement, from La Condamine and party (1735-1751), through 1789 and the establishment of a 'unit of national length' by the constitutional assembly' (37). The end point is contemporary standards of measurement: 'the Krypton lamp for the meter, the Cesium atomic clock for the second' (41) (http://enculturation.net/4 2/beard-gunn/media.html)

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technology of measurement