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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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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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The present corporatized, monolithic, surveilled state of the internet is just one possibility out of many, and there is radical promise in uncovering alternatives: pirate radio to barbed wire telegraph, synthesizers transmitted over the telephone to encoded messages bounced off the surface of the 🌙
December 21, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Talking to somebody yesterday about a Cdn oral history archive that disappeared - turns out LLMs were scraping it so much it crashed their servers so it’s offline. Vile vulture technology.
December 9, 2025 at 2:15 PM
capitalism tries out its own version of "well at least my mom thinks I'm hot" with "Wells Fargo values your insights!" you hear that people? I have insights! my bank told me so.
December 18, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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Re upping this request for leads for images of genAI books or synthetic books in the wild. Not texts, images of books.
Thank you!
#bookhistory
I accidentally hid a post I was interested in If you see pictures of genAI books in the wild, please send them my way?
December 17, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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On the one hand, AI will destroy what we have left of nature. On the other hand, it will also destroy what we have left of culture.
December 17, 2025 at 4:41 PM
why yes I did purchase a mini turntable so I can play this 3” vinyl of Corey Hart and yes I’m regretting I didn’t get two for DJing
December 12, 2025 at 2:53 AM
today’s daily affirmation: I am grateful that youngest pussycat makes fine distinctions between the critters he would murder (for example, squirrels move and birds) and the critters he would not murder (for example, me). Such a sweet and refined pussycat!
December 7, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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It's yet another plot by the AI cartel.
They are going to create a telepathic and ultra high speed communication network.
The plan is to have a Pasilalinic-sympathetic compass in each datacenter, worldwide!

cc @loriemerson.net
November 28, 2025 at 3:09 AM
I mean, obviously the best thing you’ll watch all day—
Stay till the end.
November 27, 2025 at 10:32 PM
hey I finally got accepted to SCMS! If only I knew what I did that made a difference...anyways, looking forward to seeing you pals in Chicago in March #scms2026
November 26, 2025 at 7:07 PM
We are gathered here today to witness the joining of these twelve beautiful typewriterssswheeee! Let the joyful clackety clacking begin! New ribbons for everyone!
November 25, 2025 at 2:57 AM
like they used to say on ye olde social media networks that no longer exist, reposting for the Monday crowd #othernetworks
a Friday surprise! my beloved book, Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook, is now officially back in print AND ON SALE! #othernetworks if you know folks who have been trying to track down a copy, I'd love it if you'd repost shop.mexicansummer.com/merch/495898...
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Buy Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook by Lori Emerson on Mexican Summer & Anthology.
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November 24, 2025 at 5:13 PM
If you’re wondering why I’m taking so long to respond to your emails it’s because I only do Slow Email now. Please join me. Type, Scan, Send, Repeat. #othernetworks
November 22, 2025 at 2:38 AM
a Friday surprise! my beloved book, Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook, is now officially back in print AND ON SALE! #othernetworks if you know folks who have been trying to track down a copy, I'd love it if you'd repost shop.mexicansummer.com/merch/495898...
Lori Emerson - Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook. Mexican Summer & Anthology.
Buy Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook by Lori Emerson on Mexican Summer & Anthology.
shop.mexicansummer.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Tired: Spotify playlists

Wired: local college radio freeform music hour
November 18, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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So I say this as a proud academic labor union member who believes deeply in the importance of tenure to the academic mission:

FIRE
LARRY
SUMMERS
November 18, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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Like it or not this technology is here to stay and if you don’t use it you’ll fall behind in your industry
November 16, 2025 at 11:49 PM
trust me, guys, "Papers & Paychecks" is not nearly as fun as it sounds... (Dungeons and Dragons, 1979)
November 16, 2025 at 6:29 PM
not bad for a first version of the cover for what will (eventually) be the #othernetworks #zine
November 15, 2025 at 10:02 PM
mechanically reproduced documentation of students, friends, colleagues gathering in the @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social to learn how to build their own mini FM transmitters 😍 #othernetworks #radiofutures
November 15, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Silicon Valley, 1990s: Free and open access to all the world’s knowledge will usher a new utopian age of information!

Silicon Valley, 2025:
November 15, 2025 at 1:28 AM
#othernetworks zine coming soon (not son) and get ready for alllllll the typos
November 15, 2025 at 2:47 AM
rest in peace, Grandad aka "G-dad" aka John Dumbeck who passed this afternoon at the age of 103 after a life of making his own wine, running a radio station, being a war-time pilot, being a barber, being on the run from the law (at least twice), playing in over a dozen jazz bands and on and on 💚
November 13, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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(Following @loriemerson.net I built a unit into the library school intro seminar that proposes libraries as a way of building the electronic/digital world we need outside of oligarchic control… but that we will need to know HOW to built it ourselves… literally.)
November 11, 2025 at 12:07 AM
best review I've read in ages: "I bought the typewriter to write a book. Copilot kept changing what I wrote without permission. After turning it off and it turning itself back on a few times along with word wanting to save everything to the 'cloud' I went old school." #othernetworks
November 10, 2025 at 7:55 PM