![]() Like in the case of the Renaissance grid that effectivelyc ombines an imaging process (Alberti’s velum) with a topographical planning procedure (the colonial settlement of Latin America), it is the linking of representational and operative functions, which turns the grid into a formidable cultural technique. The chapter aspires to describe some of the basic aspects of our media culture by pointing to the histories, interconnections and mutual translatability of imaging grid (as introduced by Alberti), cartographic grid (as introduced by Ptolemy), topographic grid (as put to use by early modern Spanish colonialism), speculative grid (as put to use by the land surveys of the early United States), and planning grid (as introduced by architects like Neufert and Le Corbusier in the twentieth century).
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