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  • January 23, 2024

    books & articles

    Books, articles, essays, and pamphlets that explore how the internet could have been and still could be otherwise and that explore networks before the internet:

    • Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook (Anthology Editions, forthcoming 2024; table of contents available here)
    • “How To Read a Network,” The Digital Reading Condition. Eds. Maria Engberg, Iben Have, Birgitte Pedersen. London: Routledge, 2022
    • “The Net Has Never Been Neutral,” August 2021
    • “Alternative Internets and Their Lost Histories,” Los Angeles Review of Books. April 2021
    • “‘Did We Dream Enough?’ THE THING BBS As An Experiment in Social-Cyber Sculpture,” Rhizome. New York City, NY. December 2020
    • “Anarchive as Technique | The Media Archaeology Lab’s OLPC Mesh Network Project,” The International Journal of Digital Humanities (April 2019): 1-12
    • “What’s Wrong With the Internet and How We Can Fix It: An Interview with Internet Pioneer John Day,” Ctrl-Z: New Media Philosophy 5 (December 2015)
    articles & books
  • January 23, 2024

    Recipes

    We believe in the importance of empowering people to imagine the future of the internet as the future of networks–partly through educating about the wild range of networks that existed before the internet and partly through educating about how to build your own network (BYON!). Scroll down for “recipes” on how to build your own mesh network, how to do short range over-air-transmission, how to build your own mini FM transmitter, and more.

    recipes
  • January 16, 2024

    Welcome to the club!

    The Other Networks book club is an asynchronous reading group. We’ll be focusing on a book each month starting in February, 2024.

    Each book will have a corresponding thread on Mastodon as well as a post here and an Instagram post. We’ll be sharing our thoughts as we read through the entire book, but feel free to read as much or as little as you’d like and contribute to the discussion in whatever way feels most comfortable for you.

    The reading list, so you can read ahead – or get in your library holds!

    • February: A People’s History of Computing
    • March: Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet
    • April: The Modem World
    • May: Lurking
    • June: The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet
    • July: Low Power to the People 
    • August: Programmed Inequality
    • September: Black Software
    • October: Think Black: A Memoir
    • November: Blockchain Chicken Farm
    • December: Stuck on the Platform: Reclaiming the Internet
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