[SIGCIS-Members] available now for pre-order: Other Networks / A Radical Technology Sourcebook

[Johannah Rodgers]

Congratulations!!!!!  I have been eagerly anticipating the publication of
this book!  All best, Johannah

On Mon, Feb 24, 2025 at 11:23 AM Lori Emerson via Members <
members at lists.sigcis.org> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> At long last, my beloved book, *Other Networks:A Radical Technology
> Sourcebook*, is officially available from Anthology Editions for
> pre-order here
> <https://shop.mexicansummer.com/merch/495898-lori-emerson-other-networks-a-radical-technology-sourcebook>!
> Sadly, despite publishing many beautifully designed art books, the
> publisher won’t be around for much longer which means there are only 1000
> copies available of *Other Networks*. If you think you’d like a copy,
> consider pre-ordering as soon as you can manage it.
>
> With deep gratitude to my editor Mark Iosifescu <https://iosifescu.biz/>,
> book cover designer Robert Beatty <https://robertbeattyart.com/>, and
> interior book designer Ella Gold <https://ellagold.com/>, *Other Networks*
> catalogs 80+ networks that preceded or existed outside of the internet. It
> is also an educational project that comes out of my belief that we are all
> capable both of understanding networks from the past and of building
> alternative networks for the future; a love letter to experimental art and
> technology; and a liberatory guide for escaping the corporate present. The
> design brilliantly both recalls the long history of telecommunications
> networks (exemplified by late 19th century/early 20th century telegraph and
> telephone manuals) and rewrites that same history to have a more global
> perspective and to include more women; Black, Indigenous, and People of
> Color; and artist experiments with/on these pre-internet networks.
>
> Below is the table of contents. I have also posted on my blog excerpts
> from or expanded versions of entries on microbroadcasting
> <https://loriemerson.net/2024/09/21/the-history-of-microbroadcasting-and-how-you-can-too/>,
> barbed wire fence phones
> <https://loriemerson.net/2024/08/31/a-brief-history-of-barbed-wire-fence-telephone-networks/>,
> and imaginary networks
> <https://loriemerson.net/2025/01/04/brief-notes-toward-activating-the-potential-of-imaginary-networks/>.
>
>
> Sincerely, Lori (Emerson)
>
> ***
>
> Chronological List of Networks
> <https://loriemerson.net/2024/03/15/chronological-list-of-networks-in-other-networks-a-radical-technology-sourcebook/>
> Chronological List of Network Experiments
> <https://loriemerson.net/2024/03/15/chronological-list-of-network-experiments-in-other-networks-a-radical-technology-sourcebook/>
> Acknowledgements
> Foreword
> Introduction
>
> *Wireless Networks:*
> *Sound Networks*
> [1] Drums
> [2] Whistling
>
> *Air Networks*
> [3] Fire or Smoke Signals
> [4] Pneumatic Tubes
> [5] Skywriting
>
> *Water Networks*
> [6] Hydraulic Semaphore
>
> *Optical Networks*
> [7] Flag Signaling
> [8] Optical Telegraph
> [9] Infrared Communication
> [10] Signal Lamp
> [11] Heliograph
> [12] Photophone
> [13] Ultraviolet Communication
> [14] Laser Communication
> [15] Visible Light Communication
>
> *Radio Networks *
> [16] Amateur Radio
> [16.1] Radiotelegraphy
> [16.2] Radioteletype
> [16.3] Amateur Television
> [16.4] Hellschreiber
> [16.5] Earth-Moon-Earth Communication
> [16.6] Amateur Radio Satellite
> [16.7] Amateur Packet Radio
> [17] Radio Broadcast
> [18] Pirate Radio
> [19] Radiofax
> [20] Two-Way Radio
> [21] Pager
> [22] Meteor Burst Communication
> [23] Slow Scan Television
> [24] Project West Ford
> [25] Pirate Television
> [26] Packet Radio Network
> [27] Microbroadcast
> [28] Software Defined Radio
> [29] Wi-Fi
> [30] Bluetooth
>
> *Microwave Networks*
> [31] Microwave Radio-Relay
> [32] Communications Satellite
>
> *Wired Networks:*
> *Electrical Wire Networks*
> [33] Electrical telegraph
> [33.1] Electrical Printing Telegraph
> [33.2] Image Telegraph
> [33.3] Fire Alarm Telegraph
> [33.4] Pantelegraph
> [33.5] Telephonic Telegraph
> [34] Telephone
> [35] Wired Radio
> [36] Telautograph
> [37] Telefacsimile
> [38] Videophone
> [39] Telex
>
> *Barbed Wire Networks*
> [40] Barbed Wire Telegraph
> [41] Fence Phones
>
> *Hybrid Networks:*
> [42] Library
> [43] Book
> [44] Postal System
> [44.1] Pigeon Post
> [44.2] Projectile Post
> [44.3] Balloon Mail
> [44.4] Pony Express
> [44.5] Airgraph and V-Mail
> [44.6] Email Letter
> [45] Sneakernet
> [46] Radio Broadcast Network
> [47] Broadcast Television
> [48] Cable Television
> [48.1] NABU
> [49] Cellular Network
> [50] Time-Sharing Network
> [51] Teletext
> [52] Videotex
>
> *Imaginary Networks:*
> [53] Necromancy
> [54] Pasilalinic-Sympathetic Compass
> [55] Telephonoscope
> [56] Telepathy
> [57] Ley Lines
> [58] Mundaneum
> [59] World Brain
> [60] Memex
> [61] Faster-Than-Light Communication Networks
> [62] Project Xanadu
> [63] Metaverse
> [64] The Clacks
> [65] Pandoran Neural Network
> [66] Cosmic Internet
>
>
>
>
>
> --
>
> *“I use technology in order to hate it properly.” — Nam June Paik*
>
>
>
> Lori Emerson | KF0LCB | she/her/they/them
>
> Associate Professor | Associate Chair Graduate Studies | Director, Media
> Archaeology Lab
>
> Media Studies Department | University Colorado Boulder
>
> Traditional territories of the Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Ute Nations
>
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