other networks

Lori Emerson will give a virtual talk on the “Imaginary Networks” section of her book Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook on Thursday May 2nd 6pm CET (or 10am MT/12pm ET). She will talk about the wild and wide range of phantasmic or imaginary networks that have been proposed since the late 19th century through the present moment (from the Pasilalinic-sympathetic compass to the telephonoscope, the Mundaneum, and the Cosmic Internet). She will discuss how these non-material entities have had a profound material influence on the conceptualization and development of actual networks over the last 150 years. More, these imaginary networks pave the way for alternative networks that are part-and-parcel of a collectively owned future no longer solely determined by ever-accelerating, global accumulation of capital. No registration needed – zoom link is here.