other networks – loriemerson

exploring NABU in 2025, a Canadian cable TV network from 1984

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 […]

by Lori Emerson

Recipe for an Other Networks Lecture-Performance

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 […]

by Lori Emerson

Other Networks is now available for pre-order

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 […]

by Lori Emerson

the history of microbroadcasting and how you can too!

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 […]

by Lori Emerson

a brief history of barbed wire fence telephone networks

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 […]

by Lori Emerson

Build Your Own Mini FM Transmitter / Other Networks for Everyone

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 […]

by Lori Emerson

Chronological List of Network Experiments in Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook

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 […]

by Lori Emerson

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 […]