The Connectivity of Things: Network Cultures since 1832

By

Sebastian Giessmann

Sebastian Giessmann is Reader in Media Theory at the University of Siegen. He is Principal Investigator of the DFG-funded research project “Digital Network Technologies between Specialization and Generalization” with the collaborative research center Media of Cooperation.

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The MIT Press

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/12547.001.0001

ISBN electronic:

9780262381093

Publication date:

2024

Series Page
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Note on the Text
1. Getting Caught Up
2. Six Strata of Network History: Genealogy of a Cultural Technique
3. An Archive of Networking
4. Channels: The Politics of Networking Around 1850
5. Telephones, Exchanges, and Voices Around 1890
6. A Visual History of the Network Diagram (I): From the Models of the Natural Sciences to the Calculation of Social Networks
7. Transportation: Map, Network, and Synchronization Around 1930
8. A Visual History of the Network Diagram (II): Network Projects and the Material Culture of Capitalism
9. Network Protocols: Architectures of Computers and Communication Around 1970
10. A Visual History of the Network Diagram (III): Economic Entanglements and the Mediology of Conspiracy
11. The Connectivity Of Things
References
Index
Series List

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