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chronological list of networks in Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook

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 […]

by Lori Emerson

table of contents for Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook

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 […]

by Lori Emerson

Other Networks Outtakes: “A 3 Country Happening”

For the past two years, I’ve been working on a catalog of 150-200 networks that preceded or that exist outside of the internet. One of the many challenges of the project has been the abundance of fantastic material that can’t all go into the book; occasionally I have written entries and then had to take […]

by Lori Emerson

Flexible, Emergent, and Medium-Specific | Methodologies for Hands-On Experimentation

Below is the text of a talk I’m giving on September 8, 2022 for the Doing Experimental Media Archaeology research group at the University of Luxembourg. The text is written to be a talk, which means I haven’t been as thorough about citing outside sources as I would if it were to be published. *** […]

by Lori Emerson

Blasphemy, Not Apostasy | (Human)DolphinNets

Below is the text for the talk I’m giving as part of the Reconsidering John C. Lilly symposium that takes place online on April 2, 2022. I’m hoping to expand on the distinction between a behaviorialist and an ethological approach to thinking through (human)dolphinNets when I turn the talk into a book chapter in the […]

by Lori Emerson

The Importance of Getting the Weather on Your Atari 800, or, Slow Networks Experiment 7

Happily, libi striegl and I are slowly getting back to our Slow Networks experiments in the Media Archaeology Lab we began in 2020 as a way to, well, stay sane during the pandemic and have a little fun. To inaugurate our return, today’s experiment involves learning how to use our Fujinet network adapter. We first […]

by Lori Emerson

Six (Difficult and Inconvenient) Values to Reclaim the Future with Old Media

Below is the pre-print version of a book chapter I wrote for The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Digital Humanities, edited by James O’Sullivan and forthcoming in 2022. Gratitude to James for the opportunity to write this piece! * In the face of entrepreneurs’ and tech companies’ attempts to over determine the shape of what’s to […]

by Lori Emerson

The Net Has Never Been Neutral

Below is a piece, part of my larger Other Networks project, I originally posted on my blog some years ago but then took it down in the hopes that it would find a home in a journal. I’ve since realized that it would be better to share this piece on my website after all! *** […]

by Lori Emerson

Excavating Future Histories of the Internet: AfroNet | Newsletter | Telegraph

I forgot how pleasurable and meaningful it can be to write book reviews! I am, then, very grateful to the Los Angeles Review of Books for publishing my review of three books (“Alternative Internets and Their Lost Histories“) which all, in their way, excavate alternative visions of the internet: Charlton McIlwain’s Black Software, Cait McKinney’s […]

by Lori Emerson

the cosmic internet

Is there a difference–or, how big could the difference really be–between a defunct network that may have stuttered along for just a year or two, thirty or forty years ago, and a fictional network that never existed at all? If the late 20th century and 21st century have taught us anything at all it’s that […]