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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]