Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook (Anthology Editions, 2025) is an archival project that catalogs 80+ networks that preceded or existed outside of the internet. In this talk, author Lori Emerson will share some this boldly creative taxonomy of our networked world.

Lori Emerson is Professor of Media Studies; Director of the Intermedia Arts, Writing, and Performance Program; and Associate Chair of Graduate Studies. She is also Founding Director of the Media Archaeology Lab. Emerson is author of Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook (Anthology Editions, 2025), co-author with Darren Wershler and Jussi Parikka of THE LAB BOOK: Situated Practices in Media Studies (University of Minnesota Press, 2021), author of Reading Writing Interfaces: From the Digital to the Bookbound (University of Minnesota Press June, 2014), and editor of numerous collections.

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