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Atlantic Cable
Howe’s Adventures and Achievements of Americans illustrates the 1858 Atlantic Telegraph cable
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Spiritual networks
This 1865 caption reads ‘Quiet!! My daughter is entering in communication with Dante’
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The All Red Line
The All Red Line was an informal term for the telegraphy network that linked regions of the British Empire
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Radio-Telephone Services
Macdonald Gill’s 1935 map for the UK Post Office illustrates a network of two way voice connections
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Satellite nervous systems
“Among the peoples of the world strange new vortices of power will appear unexpectedly”
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Sputnik Sweetheart
Haruki Murakami’s narrator searches the night sky for descendants of Sputnik, 1999
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Control and Freedom
Wendy Chun interrogates ‘dreams of global connectivity’ and the internet as frontier space
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Outbreak narratives
Priscilla Wald’s book Contagious explores global networks of contact and contagion
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Away
Vona Groarke’s poem ‘Away’ describes the transatlantic time gap of living ‘three thousand miles ago, five hours in the red’
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Emotional AI
How global media technologies interpret and respond to human emotions, moods, and intentions
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Space Dreams
Samantha Harvey’s novel muses on distorted time and a ‘swarm of satellites’ circling the earth
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Infodemic
The World Health Organisation’s definition of an ‘infodemic’ refers to the rapid spread of information with growing digitization.