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Below is the text for a talk I’m giving tomorrow on Friday September 19th in St. Pölten, Vienna at a wonderful event called “Reenacting Dartmouth,” organized by Seppo Gründler and Elisabeth Schimana. I’m also very keen to hear papers by my fellow panelists Xiaowei Wang and Xavier Nueno. * I am very grateful for this […]
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One of the networks I wrote about in Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook is the NABU Network (or the Natural Access to Bi-Directional Utilities Network). This was the only instance of a two-way network that operated over cable television. Users could rent or purchase a NABU Network PC, which used their home cable TV […]
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This Will Have Been a NetworkRecipe for a Lecture-Performance 1. Place a kitchen timer on a chair or stool and set it to 30 minutes. 2. Take no more than 1 minute to choose an Other Network. 3. Read out loud any information on the network for no more than 4 minutes. 4. Choose […]
Read More…At long last, Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook is officially available for pre-order. If you live in the U.S., you can order directly from Anthology Editions here. If you live outside of the U.S., please order directly through your favorite local bookstore. The distributor is Ingram and in Europe, Ingram goes by the name […]
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While I was working on the entry on “Microbroadcasting” for my book Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook, and some time after libi striegl and I attempted (somewhat unsuccessfully) to assist a group of graduate students at Concordia University in following Tetsuo Kogawa’s instructions for building “the simplest radio transmitter,” libi and I decided to […]
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If you look at the table of contents for my book, Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook, you’ll see that entries on networks before/outside the internet are arranged first by underlying infrastructure and then chronologically. You’ll also notice that within the section on wired networks, there are two sub-sections: one for electrical wire and another […]
Read More… At long last, we (libi striegl and Lori Emerson) are ready to send our pamphlet, Build Your Own Mini FM Transmitter, off to the printer! This is the first in a series of pamphlets we’re calling Other Networks for Everyone and that’s part of our ongoing work on Other Networks. We wrote, designed, published, and […]
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I recently posted the table of contents and a chronological list of network entries that will appear in Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook. As I try to make clear in the introduction, most entries also include examples of experiments with or on these networks because we often don’t know just how compelling a given […]
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And here, friends, is the same list of networks I provided earlier in the table of contents for my forthcoming Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook but listed chronologically. Of course the list is impossibly incomplete but it still reveals some interesting lulls and surges of network activity. Also note that I have posted a […]
Read More…At long last, I can share the final table of contents for Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook (forthcoming from Anthology Editions…sometime…soon!)–a coffee table book that is equal parts speculative, playful, and serious. In the introduction I write about the need for “other networks,” how taxonomies shape and determine knowledge, why I decided on this […]
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