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Miscast (instruments of measurement)

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Miscast (instruments of measurement)

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Description

"Along with the guides that regulated practices and protocols to stabilise and standardise an individual’s response to unfamiliar and disorienting sights (Kennedy 2013: 42), the gender, class and ethnicity of the observer were also of importance , as was the use of ‘ever more sophisticated instruments and calculations designed to minimize the intrusion of subjectivity into the reporting of information’ (Driver 2001: 55). By regulating who was doing the viewing, stipulating what should be viewed and how and supplying tools to measure these observations, scientific institutions promoted an authoritative ‘way of seeing’ in the field that differentiated the scientific view from that of the ordinary traveller (Driver 2001: 49)" (Liebenberg 2021: 109).

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Centre for Curating the Archive

Curriculum

Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air See all items with this value

Philosophia Botanica See all items with this value

On the External Characters of Minerals See all items with this value

The Memory of Water See all items with this value

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http://www.cca.uct.ac.za/cca/projects/miscast-archive

Creator

PIppa Skotnes See all items with this value

Date Created

1994

endDate

1995

Source

Miscast Archive (Centre for Curating the Archive)

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standardise See all items with this value

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Pippa Skotnes See all items with this value

Miscast See all items with this value

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science See all items with this value

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instruments See all items with this value

coercion See all items with this value

information See all items with this value

observer See all items with this value

gender See all items with this value

ethnicity See all items with this value

apartheid See all items with this value

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Type

Exhibition

Item sets

Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air

Philosophia Botanica

On the External Characters of Minerals

The Memory of Water

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