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DESCRIPTION:Art History & Communication Studies  Winter 2014 Speaker Series
   Amy Slaton   Department of History and Politics\, Drexel University\, Ph
 iladelphia PAGo/No-Go: Measurement\, Inscription\, and the Legible Industr
 ial WorkerThe visual and tactile efforts that constitute modern industrial
  labor reproduce famously durable social structures. From around 1880 onwa
 rd\, the shop-floor workers\, supervisors\, and design engineers employed 
 in North American manufacturing increasingly deployed rulers\, gages\, cal
 ipers\, bevels and other standardized instruments. Those acts of measureme
 nt and comparison\, described in this paper\, subjected raw materials and 
 finished products to inspection in a sweeping positivist linkage of percep
 tion and certainty. They also enlisted workers into the capitalist rationa
 lity of stratified wage labor\, with variable “capacities” for vision or t
 ouch ascribed to each occupational level. Industrial instruments\, inscrip
 tions\, products and bodies made perfect sense of one another. We follow t
 hese layered technical\, representational and social processes through to 
 the current day\, as they prove themselves now exquisitely suited to emerg
 ent neo-liberal ideologies of labor\, talent\, and privilege.
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LOCATION:W-215\, Arts Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 0G5\, 853 rue She
 rbrooke Ouest
SUMMARY:Speaker Series Winter 2014 | Amy Slaton | 'Go/No-Go: Measurement\, 
 Inscription\, and the Legible Industrial Worker'
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