In Pakistan's Daily Times Timothy Mitchell opines on the spectacles of colonialism:

Exhibitions, museums and other spectacles were not just reflections of this certainty, however, but the means of its production, by their technique of rendering history, progress, culture and empire in 'objective' form. They were occasions for making sure of such objective truths, in a world where truth had become a question of what Heidegger calls `the certainty of representation'.

He wrote that in The Age of the World Picture, referring to science.

This objectifying of whatever is, is accomplished in a setting-before, a representing, that aims at bringing each particular being before it in such a way that man who calculates can be sure, and that means to be certain, of that being. We first arrive at science as reasearch when and only when truth has been transformed into the certainty of representation.
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