Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook - Explore Alternative Network Solutions for Tech Enthusiasts & Innovators | Perfect for Research, DIY Projects & Digital Infrastructure Development

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Publisher: Anthology Editions, ISBN: 9781944860653, Author: Lori Emerson, Format: Hardcover, 24 x 28 cm, 212pp

The present corporatised, monolithic, surveilled state of our networked communications is just one possibility out of many, and there is radical promise in uncovering hidden alternatives. This title is writer and researcher Lori Emerson’s speculative index of communications networks that existed before or outside of the internet: digital as well as analogue, IRL as well as imagined, state-sponsored systems of control as well as homebrew communities in the footnotes of hacker culture.

From pirate radio to barbed wire telegraph, from synthesisers transmitted over the telephone to encoded messages bounced off the surface of the moon. Featuring explanatory descriptions of each network, archival images, and original artwork and design by Robert Beatty, Other Networks documents historically alternative networks with a particular eye towards their experimental usage by artists and writers. The result is a boldly creative taxonomy of our networked world, a liberatory sourcebook for readers eager to escape the hegemony of technological history, and a lovingly designed guide to the freedoms and communal possibilities that have been lost along the way.