Marine Chronometer

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"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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John Harrison's 1714 H1 Marine Chronometer

Among the most influential taxonomic projects that emerged from

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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Henricus Hondius' 1633 World Map. Note the distortion of the Mediterranean Sea and the necessity of two seperate hemispheres.

Greenwich and the Longitude Prize

Timekeeping, Synchronicity, and Nodal Representation

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A Moscow Subway Map:Knowledge of the transportation system makes the city's geographic distribution less important than the internal logic of nodal distribution.

Staying Tuned: Towards a Distributed Nomadic Standard

Legacies of the flat representation of Curvilinear Space

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GPS has enabled unprecedented precision in mapping and navigation
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Archigram's Plug-in City imagined a networked megastructure that could support "plugged-in" interchangeable spaces