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

Wed Feb 26 11:37:38 PST 2025

This looks to be a totally amazing book, in both content and design -  
will certainly pre-order. Congrats, and thanks for researching and  
writing it!
   Friedrich

>> Dear all,
>>
>> At long last, my beloved book, /Other Networks:A Radical Technology
>> Sourcebook/, is officially available from Anthology Editions for
>> pre-order here[1]! 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[2], book cover designer
>> Robert Beatty[3], and interior book designer Ella Gold[4], /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[5], barbed
>> wire fence phones[6], and imaginary networks[7].
>>
>> Sincerely, Lori (Emerson)
>>
>> ***
>>
>> Chronological List  of Networks[8]
>> Chronological List of Network Experiments[9]
>> 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
>>
>> /Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook/[1]
>>
>> Mastodon[10] | Bluesky[11]
>> | loriemerson.net[12] | mediaarchaeologylab.com[13]
>>
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> Links:
> ------
> [1]  
> https://shop.mexicansummer.com/merch/495898-lori-emerson-other-networks-a-radical-technology-sourcebook
> [2] https://iosifescu.biz/
> [3] https://robertbeattyart.com/
> [4] https://ellagold.com/
> [5]  
> https://loriemerson.net/2024/09/21/the-history-of-microbroadcasting-and-how-you-can-too/
> [6]  
> https://loriemerson.net/2024/08/31/a-brief-history-of-barbed-wire-fence-telephone-networks/
> [7]  
> https://loriemerson.net/2025/01/04/brief-notes-toward-activating-the-potential-of-imaginary-networks/
> [8]  
> https://loriemerson.net/2024/03/15/chronological-list-of-networks-in-other-networks-a-radical-technology-sourcebook/
> [9]  
> https://loriemerson.net/2024/03/15/chronological-list-of-network-experiments-in-other-networks-a-radical-technology-sourcebook/
> [10] https://post.lurk.org/@loriemerson
> [11] https://bsky.app/profile/loriemerson.net
> [12] http://loriemerson.net/
> [13] http://mediaarchaeologylab.com/

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