Constant plot
"Constant" is a journey through the social and political history of measurement. The film explores three shifts in the history of the standardization of measurements, from the surveying that steered the privatization of European lands in the early modern era, through the French Revolution that steered the Metric Revolution, to the conceptual dematerialization of measurements in the contemporary era. of Big Science. Each chapter outlines the relationship between standardization of measurements and ideas about egalitarianism, agency, justice and power.