Transfer of Frameworks from Old Network Technologies to New Ones

Presentation by Harmeet Sawhney (Department of Telecommunications, Indiana University, Bloomington), Venkata Ratnadeep Suri (Department of Telecommunications, Indiana University, Bloomington), and Hyangsun Lee (Research Fellow, Office of Planning and Management, Korea Communications Standards Commission, Seoul, Korea). The Interstate Commerce Act developed for regulating the

Digging Through Archives and Dirt: Entangling Media Archaeology, Archaeology Proper, and Architectural History

Presentation by Shannon Mattern (The New School). In the introduction to their new media archaeology anthology, Erkki Huhtamo and Jussi Parikka propose that “[m]edia archaeology should not be confused with archaeology as a discipline. When media archaeologists claim that they

“Her Lips Are Copper Wire”: Linguistics, Networks, and the Great Migration

Presentation by Erin E. Edwards (Miami University). This paper forms an assemblage between Jean Toomer’s 1923 Cane and Deleuze and Guattari’s “November 20, 1923—Postulates of Linguistics,” from A Thousand Plateaus.  November 20, 1923, marks the date when the Weimar Republic