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media studies professor | Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook (Anthology Editions, May 2025) | dir. @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social | http://loriemerson.net | Boulder, Colorado | 🇨🇦 🇺🇲 🏃‍♀️🚴‍♀️ | 📷 Jenna Maurice

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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · Jul 11

SOME NEWS! the folks at Anthology Editions / Mexican Summer decided to print another 1500 copies of #othernetworks (out in Oct.) because it sold out so quickly! THANK YOU to all of you for ordering a copy & helping to make this reprint possible 😍 1/2 loriemerson.net/books/other-...

Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook

Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook At long last, Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook is officially available for pre-order. If you live in the U.S., you can order directly …

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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 1h

yes!!

Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 1h

this looks perfect - thank you!

Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 9h

Oh yes, this is a great point! I have been thinking about how many key principles from radio find their way into cybernetics and information theory

Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 9h

Yes I like this - I’m having my media history students read it this semester

Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 9h

I need to check it out!

Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 9h

Exactly!

Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 9h

absolutely! We have that book in the @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social right now :)

Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 9h

the class could be organized around topics like bodies, behavior, labor, mind, etc?!

Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 9h

that is a great idea - and also you remind me: theories of management

Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 9h

wow - that sounds fantastic - thank you!

Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 10h

if you were to teach a class on the pre/history of AI in terms of key concepts ideas, what would they be? the mind/body problem? abstraction vs materialism? history of the database? automation?

Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 1d

if you'd like to hear my #othernetworks talk and/or gather virtually with likeminded people who are part of @metagov.bsky.social, please join us Wednesday Oct. 8th 10am MDT! luma.com/4kfjgd6a

Seminar: Other Networks with Dr. Lori Emerson · Zoom · Luma

For this seminar, we will welcome Dr. Lori Emerson (from the Media Studies Department at University of Colorado Boulder) to give a talk about some of her…

Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 1d

"Factuality itself depends for its continued existence upon the existence of the nontotalitarian world." #arendt #totalitarianism

Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 1d

shall we write a book on 2025 and just title it _THE QUEST FOR TOTAL DOMINATION_?

Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 1d

"In the language of the Nazis, the never-resting, dynamic 'will of the Fuehrer'--and not his orders, a phrase that might imply a fixed and circumscribed authority--becomes the 'supreme law' in a totalitarian state." --Hannah Arendt

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Jeremy Hsu @jeremyhsu.bsky.social · 2d

Intriguing plan that goes well beyond symbolism. "Trucks from the First Nation could soon be transporting food, furniture and even critical minerals south of the border along ancestral pathways once used to move buffalo hides and pemmican across the plains—without paying taxes or tariffs."

Kevin Carson 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇹🇯 @kevincarson1.bsky.social · 2d

Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border ino.to/agDxSX2

Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border

“We’re not begging for crumbs anymore. We’re demanding what’s rightly ours."

Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 2d

"The scientificality of totalitarian propaganda is characterized by its almost exclusive insistence on scientific prophecy as distinguished from the more old-fashioned appeal to the past." --Hannah Arendt

Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 2d

"Totalitarianism will not be satisfied to assert, in the face of contrary facts, that unemployment does not exist; it will abolish unemployment benefits as part of its propaganda." --Hannah Arendt

Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 4d

"It seems very likely that OpenAI will soon be placing ads inside ChatGPT results" can universities please now stop providing these licenses to students or are we not even trying any more to separate learning from corporate sponsorship jeppestricker.substack.com/p/the-age-of...

The Age of Sponsored Knowing

And What This Means To Higher Education

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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 4d

that is sweet to hear :)

Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 5d

it was surprisingly pretty straightforward! I still can't believe it all works...and also the historians of the future may not be wrong about what they think they see 🤷‍♀️

Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 5d

☝️ #othernetworks!!!

Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 5d

peoples! we did a big, exciting thing today! @rose-alibi.bsky.social & I strung up a full wave antenna in my backyard and sent/rec'd a little CW / morse code today over 20 meter band! next step: set it up off a 35 ft mountain drop to see if we can connect w/our pal in Berlin #amateurradio #cw

woman in black overalls and a sleeveless top sits atop a ladder leaning against a large tree. she is stringing antenna wire on a branch.

20 meter band silve radio stacked on top of a SWR meter sits on green grass in front of a flower bed. a long yellow wire antenna stretches across the yard beside it. a pair of black headphones are also lying on the ground.

selfie of two women. the woman on the left wears a sleeveless top and black overalls. she's holding the antenna for a SDR SWR meter attached to her cell phone. she is also holding an audio cable and her thumb is paused above the connector as she's in the middle of transmitting morse code. a 20 meter band radio sits on the grassy ground directly behind them. the second woman leans into the camera on the right.

macbook pro laptop is open showing live audio translation of morse code into the latin alphabet.

Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 5d

and what if I (or we!) insert myself (ourselves!) in national organizations dedicated to "AI and education" with the sole goal of establishing my own (our!) "national visibility as a leader in [anti] AI education" cra.org/nairr-pilot-...

NAIRR Pilot Classroom Expansion AI EDU Research Collaboration Network (RCN)

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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 8d

also, the @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social's Victrola not only works it BLASTS music!

Victor Victrola plays a Johann Strauss disc. it sits on a white table against a window with rainbow vinyl horizontal stripes. beside the Victrola are other discs as well as a small pamphlet titled "How to get the most out of your Victrola"