On Oct 16, 2016, at 3:26 PM, Alexandre Hocquet <alexandre.hocquet@univ-lorraine.fr> wrote:
Apologies if it has been mentionned before. I came across serendipitously on this art infrastructure project http://gizmodo.com/how-to-see-the-internet-hiding-in-plain-sight-1787633653
which is also a book http://www.mhpbooks.com/books/networks-of-new-york/
As maintainers and infrastructure studies have been debated recently on the list, I wondered if it was known, and if it was, what do SIGCISers think about this piece?
I have a copy of the *Networks of New York: An Illustrated Field Guide to Urban Internet Infrastructure* book, which is fabulous. The author, Ingrid Burrington, was at the 2016 Maintainers conference at Stephens, and so she is knows the history of tech/history of computing community pretty well. The premise of the book — a field guide to infrastructure is brilliant. She describes the spray-painted codes that maintenance workers use to identify where things are buried, covered, or otherwise concealed. Its the language of maintenance hidden in plain sight throughout the built environment. -Nathan --- Nathan Ensmenger Associate Professor of Informatics School of Informatics and Computing Indiana University, Bloomington homes.soic.indiana.edu/nensmeng/