Free Lecture on History etc. of Geocoding Wednesday in DC

This from Robert at the Library of Congress:

December 3, 2008 at Noon

Lecture:  “Spaces of Calculation: Street Addressing and the Making of
a Geo-coded World,” Reuben Rose-Redwood, Kluge Fellow, at 12:00 PM in
Whittall Pavilion, Thomas Jefferson Building, 10 First St. S.E.,
Washington, D.C.

From the website (more info):

Kluge Fellow Reuben Rose-Redwood will explore the cultural and political history of street addressing in the United States, from the late eighteenth century to the present, including the recent shift from rural route and box numbering systems to 911 addresses. More than a mere technical device best left to postmasters and planning professionals, the spatial practice of street addressing is one of the fundamental mechanisms of the production of calculable space and is, in a more general sense, the socio-spatial equivalent to the mathematicization of nature that has dominated modern thought since the Enlightenment.