Postcode: Addressing humans and machines
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‘Addresses are data which allow other data to appear,’ wrote the media theorist Friedrich Kittler. Over the past 170 years, addresses, adressing and addressability have changed a great deal, and the British postcode offers an unusual window onto that change. Designed for mail-sorting equipment, it contributed to the coordination of the British bureaucracy, and also became part of how people talk about locations and…
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