<div dir="auto">Congratulations Lori! This looks terrific! I eagerly await its publication, & plan to preorder.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Best, Jeff<br><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Feb 24, 2025, 10:22 AM Lori Emerson via Members <<a href="mailto:members@lists.sigcis.org">members@lists.sigcis.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Dear all,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>At long last, my beloved book,
<i>Other Networks:A Radical Technology Sourcebook</i>, is officially available from Anthology Editions for pre-order
<a href="https://shop.mexicansummer.com/merch/495898-lori-emerson-other-networks-a-radical-technology-sourcebook" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">
here</a>! 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
<i>Other Networks</i>. If you think you’d like a copy, consider pre-ordering as soon as you can manage it.
<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>With deep gratitude to my editor
<a href="https://iosifescu.biz/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Mark Iosifescu</a>, book cover designer <a href="https://robertbeattyart.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">
Robert Beatty</a>, and interior book designer <a href="https://ellagold.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Ella Gold</a>,
<i>Other Networks</i> 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.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Below is the table of contents. I have also posted on my blog excerpts from or expanded versions of entries on
<a href="https://loriemerson.net/2024/09/21/the-history-of-microbroadcasting-and-how-you-can-too/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">
microbroadcasting</a>, <a href="https://loriemerson.net/2024/08/31/a-brief-history-of-barbed-wire-fence-telephone-networks/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">
barbed wire fence phones</a>, and <a href="https://loriemerson.net/2025/01/04/brief-notes-toward-activating-the-potential-of-imaginary-networks/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">
imaginary networks</a>. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Sincerely, Lori (Emerson)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>***<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span><a href="https://loriemerson.net/2024/03/15/chronological-list-of-networks-in-other-networks-a-radical-technology-sourcebook/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Chronological List
of Networks</a><br>
<a href="https://loriemerson.net/2024/03/15/chronological-list-of-network-experiments-in-other-networks-a-radical-technology-sourcebook/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Chronological List of Network Experiments</a><br>
Acknowledgements<br>
Foreword<br>
Introduction<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span>Wireless Networks:</span></b><span><br>
<b>Sound Networks</b><br>
[1] Drums<br>
[2] Whistling<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span>Air Networks</span></b><span><br>
[3] Fire or Smoke Signals<br>
[4] Pneumatic Tubes<br>
[5] Skywriting<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span>Water Networks</span></b><span><br>
[6] Hydraulic Semaphore<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span>Optical Networks</span></b><span><br>
[7] Flag Signaling<br>
[8] Optical Telegraph<br>
[9] Infrared Communication<br>
[10] Signal Lamp<br>
[11] Heliograph<br>
[12] Photophone<br>
[13] Ultraviolet Communication<br>
[14] Laser Communication<br>
[15] Visible Light Communication<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span>Radio Networks
</span></b><span><br>
[16] Amateur Radio<br>
[16.1] Radiotelegraphy<br>
[16.2] Radioteletype <br>
[16.3] Amateur Television<br>
[16.4] Hellschreiber<br>
[16.5] Earth-Moon-Earth Communication<br>
[16.6] Amateur Radio Satellite<br>
[16.7] Amateur Packet Radio<br>
[17] Radio Broadcast<br>
[18] Pirate Radio<br>
[19] Radiofax<br>
[20] Two-Way Radio<br>
[21] Pager<br>
[22] Meteor Burst Communication<br>
[23] Slow Scan Television<br>
[24] Project West Ford<br>
[25] Pirate Television<br>
[26] Packet Radio Network<br>
[27] Microbroadcast<br>
[28] Software Defined Radio<br>
[29] Wi-Fi<br>
[30] Bluetooth<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span>Microwave Networks</span></b><span><br>
[31] Microwave Radio-Relay<br>
[32] Communications Satellite<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span>Wired Networks:</span></b><span><br>
<b>Electrical Wire Networks</b><br>
[33] Electrical telegraph<br>
[33.1] Electrical Printing Telegraph <br>
[33.2] Image Telegraph<br>
[33.3] Fire Alarm Telegraph<br>
[33.4] Pantelegraph<br>
[33.5] Telephonic Telegraph<br>
[34] Telephone<br>
[35] Wired Radio<br>
[36] Telautograph<br>
[37] Telefacsimile<br>
[38] Videophone<br>
[39] Telex<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span>Barbed Wire Networks</span></b><span><br>
[40] Barbed Wire Telegraph<br>
[41] Fence Phones<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span>Hybrid Networks:</span></b><span><br>
[42] Library<br>
[43] Book<br>
[44] Postal System<br>
[44.1] Pigeon Post<br>
[44.2] Projectile Post<br>
[44.3] Balloon Mail<br>
[44.4] Pony Express<br>
[44.5] Airgraph and V-Mail<br>
[44.6] Email Letter<br>
[45] Sneakernet<br>
[46] Radio Broadcast Network<br>
[47] Broadcast Television<br>
[48] Cable Television<br>
[48.1] NABU<br>
[49] Cellular Network<br>
[50] Time-Sharing Network<br>
[51] Teletext<br>
[52] Videotex<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span>Imaginary Networks:</span></b><span><br>
[53] Necromancy<br>
[54] Pasilalinic-Sympathetic Compass<br>
[55] Telephonoscope<br>
[56] Telepathy<br>
[57] Ley Lines<br>
[58] Mundaneum<br>
[59] World Brain<br>
[60] Memex<br>
[61] Faster-Than-Light Communication Networks<br>
[62] Project Xanadu<br>
[63] Metaverse<br>
[64] The Clacks<br>
[65] Pandoran Neural Network<br>
[66] Cosmic Internet<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>--<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color:black">“I use technology in order to hate it properly.” — Nam June Paik</span></i><span><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Lori Emerson | KF0LCB | she/her/they/them<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Associate Professor | Associate Chair Graduate Studies | Director, Media Archaeology Lab<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Media Studies Department | University Colorado Boulder<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Traditional territories of the Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Ute Nations<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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