I’m very much looking forward to the conference this Saturday on “Poetiken der Infrastruktur. Zum Unterbau medialer Kommunikation,” organized by Simon Ganahl, Arndt Niebisch, Martina Süess of the Mediologie@Wien group in cooperation with the Institut für Wissenschaft und Kunst . In preparation for the event, I’ll be posting some of my notes on select sources from network studies, in general, and wireless infrastructures, in particular.
Over the coming days, look for notes on these sources from the field of network studies:
- Mark Wigley, “Network Fever” [posted Dec. 11, 2014]
- Friedrich Kittler, “The City is a Medium” [posted Dec. 9, 2014]
Nicole Starosielski, “‘Warning: Do Not Dig’: Negotiating the Visibility of Critical Infrastructures”- Nicole Starosielski, Braxton Soderman, Cris Cheek, Introduction to Amodern 2, Special Issue on “Network Archaeology” [posted Dec. 11, 2014]
- Brian Holmes, “Drifting through the Grid: Psychogeography and Imperial Infrastructure” [posted Dec. 11, 2014]
- Finn Brunton, Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet
And on these sources about wireless infrastructures:
- Peter Schaefer, “Dematerialized Infrastructures: On the Ethereal Origins of Local Area Networks” [posted Dec. 11, 2014]
- Will Straw, “The Circulatory Turn”
- Lisa Parks, “Around the Antenna Tree: The Politics of Infrastructural Visibility” [posted Dec. 11, 2014]
- Jussi Parikka, “Critically Engineered Wireless Politics” [posted Dec. 12, 2014]
- Eric Kluitenberg, “The Network of Waves: Living and Acting in a Hybrid Space” [posted Dec. 12, 2014]
- Adrian Mackenzie, Wirelessness: Radical Empiricism in Network Cultures
- William J. Mitchell, Me++: The Cyborg Self and the Networked City
- Richard Scot Barnett, Rhetoric and Ethics in the Age of Wireless Computing (diss.)
Erik Born 