Lori Emerson
@loriemerson.net
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
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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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-...
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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
(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.)
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
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
friends. I'm not sure there's time in my class next semester BUT: if you were to teach a piece/book by Vílem Flusser in a media theories grad class, which text would you teach? (@shanedenson.bsky.social I'm sure you have a great suggestion but no obligation)
November 9, 2025 at 12:04 AM
friends. I'm not sure there's time in my class next semester BUT: if you were to teach a piece/book by Vílem Flusser in a media theories grad class, which text would you teach? (@shanedenson.bsky.social I'm sure you have a great suggestion but no obligation)
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40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
November 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
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everyone knows Richard Scarry's "Very Busy Surveillance State." classic.
The diagram for what Palantir does is like if Richard Scarry got super paranoid and did an Apocalypse picture book
November 7, 2025 at 10:06 PM
everyone knows Richard Scarry's "Very Busy Surveillance State." classic.
what a great and relevant reminder for us, now, from Hans Magnus Enzensberger in 1970: "The open secret of the electronic media, the decisive political factor, which has been waiting, suppressed or crippled, for its moment to come, is their mobilizing power. newleftreview.org/issues/i64/a...
Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Constituents of a Theory of the Media, NLR I/64, November–December 1970
If you should think this is Utopian, then I would ask you to consider why it is Utopian.
newleftreview.org
November 7, 2025 at 7:36 PM
what a great and relevant reminder for us, now, from Hans Magnus Enzensberger in 1970: "The open secret of the electronic media, the decisive political factor, which has been waiting, suppressed or crippled, for its moment to come, is their mobilizing power. newleftreview.org/issues/i64/a...
the "proliferation of AI...in library and education spaces would not be possible...without the precedent of book bans...once you have a culture in which all expertise is denigrated & considered nonessential, you create the circumstances in which AI can flourish” www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
www.404media.co
November 7, 2025 at 7:15 PM
the "proliferation of AI...in library and education spaces would not be possible...without the precedent of book bans...once you have a culture in which all expertise is denigrated & considered nonessential, you create the circumstances in which AI can flourish” www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
I hesitate to post this but honest to god how else to make it clear that at the very least we should not be handing these tools over to our students...please note it contains descriptions of suicidal ideation www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u... #banAIinHigherEd
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:01 PM
I hesitate to post this but honest to god how else to make it clear that at the very least we should not be handing these tools over to our students...please note it contains descriptions of suicidal ideation www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u... #banAIinHigherEd
Still recruiting PhD students for our Media Studies Department! Please see link below for more info @joshshepperd.bsky.social @stevenfrost.bsky.social @cumediastudies.bsky.social
we, @cumediastudies.bsky.social, are still recruiting new grad students to begin fall 2026! We are also hoping to see apps for our PhD program from individuals with a secondary interest in obtaining training in digital humanities #dh. details here and pls share---> docs.google.com/document/d/1...
MDST Graduate Programs Recruitment
University of Colorado Boulder Media Studies Department Recruiting Graduate Students for Fall 2026! The Media Studies Department at the University of Colorado Boulder is now accepting applications fo...
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November 7, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Still recruiting PhD students for our Media Studies Department! Please see link below for more info @joshshepperd.bsky.social @stevenfrost.bsky.social @cumediastudies.bsky.social
one of my favorite #othernetworks of all time
Visited a recreation of Cybersyn — the Chilean socialist internet that predates the web. It had programs to communicate with a decentralized network of telex machines at factories (Cybernet), economic simulators (CHECO & Cyberstride), and this control room
Goal was to control the economy with clicks
Goal was to control the economy with clicks
November 7, 2025 at 2:27 AM
one of my favorite #othernetworks of all time
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“AI maximalism across society is supercharging the ideological war on libraries, schools, government workers, and academics.”
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
November 6, 2025 at 10:21 PM
“AI maximalism across society is supercharging the ideological war on libraries, schools, government workers, and academics.”
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
delightful & curious watching students this morning write postcards, mostly to their parents, in which they declare their love for them, that they miss them, that they're writing these in class! and questions like "where do I put the stamp? how do I mail it? where is the post-office"? #othernetworks
November 6, 2025 at 8:10 PM
delightful & curious watching students this morning write postcards, mostly to their parents, in which they declare their love for them, that they miss them, that they're writing these in class! and questions like "where do I put the stamp? how do I mail it? where is the post-office"? #othernetworks
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Today! Register&join us for a talk by @loriemerson.net on alternative and forgotten networks and the futures they might hold.
cenes.ubc.ca/events/event...
cenes.ubc.ca/events/event...
November 6, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Today! Register&join us for a talk by @loriemerson.net on alternative and forgotten networks and the futures they might hold.
cenes.ubc.ca/events/event...
cenes.ubc.ca/events/event...
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BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students.
Follow AP for live updates.
Follow AP for live updates.
Live updates: US voters head to the polls in first general election since Trump's return to power
One year after Donald Trump retook the presidency, 2025 Election Day includes closely watched races for New York City mayor, New Jersey governor and California's Proposition 50.
bit.ly
November 5, 2025 at 3:33 AM
BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students.
Follow AP for live updates.
Follow AP for live updates.
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did you guys know sometimes good things happen? wasn’t aware of this possibility. much to investigate
November 5, 2025 at 2:30 AM
did you guys know sometimes good things happen? wasn’t aware of this possibility. much to investigate
I know an embarrassingly large number of facts and figures about running shoes. Got a back up job after all, I guess!
November 4, 2025 at 3:27 AM
I know an embarrassingly large number of facts and figures about running shoes. Got a back up job after all, I guess!
signed: "An open letter from educators who refuse the call to adopt GenAI in education" #ai openletter.earth/an-open-lett...
An open letter from educators who refuse the call to adopt GenAI in education
openletter.earth
November 3, 2025 at 3:56 PM
signed: "An open letter from educators who refuse the call to adopt GenAI in education" #ai openletter.earth/an-open-lett...
"Totalitarian solutions may well survive the fall of totalitarian regimes in the form of strong temptations which will come up whenever it seems impossible to alleviate political, social, or economic misery in a manner worthy of man." #arendt #totalitarianism
October 31, 2025 at 9:30 PM
"Totalitarian solutions may well survive the fall of totalitarian regimes in the form of strong temptations which will come up whenever it seems impossible to alleviate political, social, or economic misery in a manner worthy of man." #arendt #totalitarianism
happy Friday! It's time to finally read the last chapters of Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism and finally I'm seeing (ha) some glimmers of good news: the paradox of totalitarianism is that its regimes have to "hold out promises of stability in order to hide their intention of creating 1/2
October 31, 2025 at 3:48 PM
happy Friday! It's time to finally read the last chapters of Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism and finally I'm seeing (ha) some glimmers of good news: the paradox of totalitarianism is that its regimes have to "hold out promises of stability in order to hide their intention of creating 1/2
very happy and relieved to confirm: the second printing of #othernetworks will be available on the Anthology Editions website November 21st and also available to order from your favorite independent bookstore shortly after 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
October 29, 2025 at 4:08 PM
very happy and relieved to confirm: the second printing of #othernetworks will be available on the Anthology Editions website November 21st and also available to order from your favorite independent bookstore shortly after shop.mexicansummer.com/merch/495898...
looking forward to talking (virtually) about imaginary #othernetworks in my home town!
Join us for an online lecture by Prof. Lori Emerson (@loriemerson.net) on "How to Activate the Potential of Imaginary Networks" in our Ziegler Lecture Series hosted by UBC's @ubc-cenes.bsky.social. Registration info here: cenes.ubc.ca/events/event...
October 29, 2025 at 11:14 AM
looking forward to talking (virtually) about imaginary #othernetworks in my home town!
it has taken me until now to understand that the web of 10-15 years ago is definitively dead and that me freely sharing thoughts drafts articles chapters book excerpts on my blog is only feeding the very gen AI that I have come to despise. And so now I am going to go through as many posts/pages 1/2
October 28, 2025 at 2:36 AM
it has taken me until now to understand that the web of 10-15 years ago is definitively dead and that me freely sharing thoughts drafts articles chapters book excerpts on my blog is only feeding the very gen AI that I have come to despise. And so now I am going to go through as many posts/pages 1/2
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October 28, 2025 at 12:14 AM
yes this yes!
The question isn’t "why does Signal use AWS?" It’s to look at the infrastructural requirements of any global, real-time, mass comms platform and ask how it is that we got to a place where there’s no realistic alternative to AWS and the other hyperscalers. 3/
October 28, 2025 at 12:18 AM
yes this yes!
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Please make more. Feel free to use our text and address it to your employer!
Also openletter.earth/an-open-lett...
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An open letter from educators who refuse the call to adopt GenAI in education
openletter.earth
October 27, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Please make more. Feel free to use our text and address it to your employer!
Also openletter.earth/an-open-lett...
By @melaniedusseau.bsky.social @miriamreynoldson.bsky.social ✨✨✨
Also openletter.earth/an-open-lett...
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