State statistics

2021-10-28

State-istics

Two big questions:

  1. Where do modern data practices come from?
  2. What kinds of social arrangements do comprehensive data promote?

Cybernetics: “the scientific study of control and communication in the animal and the machine.”

NYC: Davies, Red Atlas

Tourist and internal maps of Tallinn: untappedcities.com

Hanscom field; American and Soviet views