Lori Emerson

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media studies professor // dir. Intermedia Art, Writing, and Performance Program // dir. Media Archaeology Lab http://mediaarchaeology.com // loriemerson.net // big deep obsessive love for #othernetworks http://othernetworks.net 📷 Jenna Maurice

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from "THE COMPUTER IN SOCIETY" in 1965 to "THE COMPUTER SOCIETY" in 1978 - a pretty breathtaking illustration via Time Magazine covers of the profound changes that took place in the U.S. in just 13 years (found in R. Kline's The Cybernetics Moment) #cybernetics

this is a pretty niche joke probably with myself: an SNL skit featuring middle aged hip hop star Lil' Moody and dj HRT in thaaa houssssse

pearls of wisdom from 1960: "If a fish wished to live on land, it could not readily do so. If, however, a particularly intelligent and resourceful fish could be found, who had studied a good deal of biochemistry and physiology, was a master engineer and cyberneticist, 1/2

here's a dark handful of facts: a) the term "cyborg" was created by Manfred Clynes while he was Chief Research Scientist at the Rockland State Psychiatric Hospital #cybernetics 1/3

orgs who want the Media Archaeology Lab to have an agreement in place about insurance and liability? once again I wonder if the MAL's online presence is larger than its physical presence as a small, largely DIY/grassroots campus lab...

academics! teachers! what's the most recent guidebook to academic writing (conference papers, dissertations, etc.) for the arts/humanities you'd recommend?

our pamphlet "Build Your Own Mini FM Transmitter" is ready to go to the printer--last call to add yourself to our shipping list. spiral binding! no license needed! no experience needed! donations welcome but not necessary! forms.gle/9cRzgP2uzwX5... let 1000 transmitters keep blooming #othernetworks

I want a radio transmitter booklet!forms.gle Add your name and email to the list, and we'll contact you for your shipping address once our booklets are ready to ship! If you'd like to contribute to printing/shipping costs, please make a donation...

(a little levity to distract you from assassination attempts) sick burn, Claude Shannon: "I was confident I was correct--both intuitively and rigorously. I knew exactly what I was doing, but maybe it takes people a little brighter to understand it." #cybernetics

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more on our _Build Your Own Mini FM Transmitter_: it's free! (but donations help us cover printing/shipping.) we will eventually share as a pdf! it has a nice spiral binding! it really is aimed at EVERYONE! it's fun? aaaaaand you don't need a license! #othernetworks othernetworks.net/2024/07/10/c...

coming soon! Other Networks for Everyone #1othernetworks.net At long last, we are ready to send our pamphlet, Build Your Own Mini FM Transmitter, off to the printer! This is the first in a series of pamphlets we're calling Other Networks for Everyone. Add your ...

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New Grant Application: For this application please submit a timeline, a fully completed project, six supporting documents showing that you have already self-financed all of the work the grant would hypothetically support, and 7 letters of support from everyone remotely interested in the subject.

I am floored to discover an email thread from 2014 where someone introduces me to 2 guys who wrote a newsletter from 1981-1988 and called...wait for it....Other Networks! apparently I named #othernetworks after this newsletter and then promptly forgot about it! archive.org/details/Othe...

Other Networks Newsletter : Public Interest Media Project : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archivearchive.org Other Networks Newsletter (1981-1988) was published and edited by Stan Pokras and Seth Horwitz out of the Public Interest Media Project's office in the...

I have to say I'm starting to understand why my politics-obsessed partner has come to believe the democrats hate themselves and secretly think the GOP is right...the self-defeating strategies are really something to behold---

I've only been a U.S. citizen for 6 months and already I'm like "oh gawd please can this be over now please it's all going to end terribly and I don't think I can handle any more slow-mo play-by-play for the next 4 months"

omg it is exhausting to maintain one's online presence in the various places and promote one's publications...I could just disappear from the internet altogether but then what of all the work that went into the writing? and so I work more to make the other work seem more worthwhile---

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@rose-alibi.bsky.social and I finally finished writing/designing _Build Your Own Mini FM Transmitter_! add yourself to our list & we’ll contact you for your shipping address once they're ready to ship: shorturl.at/lnVQs. more details here: othernetworks.net/2024/07/10/c... #othernetworks

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Our designer Elaine Lopez, my Philly/NY friend and Parsons colleague, will create more professional documentation — but here’s the final product! Love the yellow and pink accents, the typefaces by Philly-based James Hultquist-Todd, and the printing from Philly’s own Fireball!

We’ve got a mock-up of our Local Media Field Guide! We’ll print next week, then mail copies to all contributing students and hand-deliver to our local collaborators!

what a day: cleaned the housed, weeded the garden, paid the bills, AND FINALLY DUMPED CHROME FOR #firefox! what will I do now I don't have to swear at my screen many times over the course of a day?

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A fantastic Arena Channel, featured in today's newsletter. Nice connections to @loriemerson.bsky.social's work on "other networks," David Benqué's "diagram studies," and all the "poetic web" stuff www.are.na/julieta-cola...

hope!

Long may it last

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Trans healthcare saves lives. America's trans & nonbinary legislators are calling on the Biden Administration to oppose any attempt to ban puberty blockers, hormone replacement therapy, & surgery for young trans people, and to follow medical best practices as set out in WPATH.

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🌻🌞 Excited that the full #ournetworks program is up! ournetworks.ca/program/

Our Networksournetworks.ca Conference about the past, present, and future of building our own network infrastructures.

hooray! #othernetworks with #ournetworks!

🌻🌞 We will be joined by: - @loriemerson.bsky.social, CU Boulder and @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social - Joni Schinkel, Small File Media Festival - @expede.wtf, Indie Researcher - Michelle Kaczmarek, Share Reuse Repair - Esther Han Beol Jang, Local Connectivity Lab / Seattle Community Network / UW 📡🛰️

Our Networksournetworks.ca Conference about the past, present, and future of building our own network infrastructures.

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I guess the British won after all.

RESCHEDULED! We will announce the date when we have one - the campus network has been experiencing instability all day, so we're going to find a new date and hopefully not have to worry about a dropped connection...

Our practitioner-in-residence Shanice Martin will be presenting her work "Aesthetics of Access" on Friday 6/28 at 12pm our time (UTC-6). RSVP: [email protected]

ahhhh it's that time again: Nausea As All the Awful Supreme Court Rulings Start Rolling In---

take a work break today to learn about captioning and the "aesthetics of access" from our really lovely practitioner-in-residence!

Our practitioner-in-residence Shanice Martin will be presenting her work "Aesthetics of Access" on Friday 6/28 at 12pm our time (UTC-6). RSVP: [email protected]

it's interesting to see how a whole field can become biased toward a particular line of thought because a few scholars landed a large, multi-year grant that made it possible for them to publish multiple articles and books and host multi-year conferences on a topic. 1/2

so excited to have Shanice Martin in town, a @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social artist-in-resident! join us on zoom 12pm MT on Friday the 28th. Shanice will talk about the forms and functions of subtitles. send a blank email to [email protected] for zoom link and password