Dear SIGCIS, my book's open access is now live. Feel free to download and read "The Connectivity of Things" via https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/12547.001.0001 ... Please support the open access fund and/or think about ordering a copy in print. All the best, Sebastian Am 15.10.24 um 14:39 schrieb Sebastian Gießmann:

Dear members of SIGCIS,

when Henri de Saint-Simon was broke, he handwrote and manually copied his treatises so that they might see some distribution. I always think of this early 19th century story when I reach out to say that there's a new book out there. As historians of technology you might enjoy reading "The Connectivity of Things: Network Cultures since 1832," which comes out today with MIT Press. I always wanted to find out about why the Internet is considered a network of networks. The book itself is a /longue durée/ cultural-technical answer to that question.

While this is hopefully going to see open access soon, the actual printed book is a real beauty! I do continue with the Saint-Simonian business just a bit: If you indulge in reading "Connectivity" on paper, there's a 30 percent discount _only today_ on Barnes and Noble. Please use PUBDAY30 as a discount code on https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/763375/the-connectivity-of-things-b.... MIT Press has some more information on the discount code business: https://mitpress.mit.edu/discount-codes/.

Btw, there's a 20 percent discount if you use READMIT20 on any other day. All of this certainly works with a US address - hopefully, people in Canada might also profit from it. In my humble East German yet Gutenbergian ways, this kind of book promotion still feels a bit awkward. But who would not like to save some money? Feel free to share this information as you like.

All the best from Cologne, Sebastian

-- AOR Dr. Sebastian Gießmann Reader | Media Theory Out now: The Connectivity of Things: Network Cultures since 1832 https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/12547.001.0001 http://www.sebastiangiessmann.de https://www.mediacoop.uni-siegen.de