{"id":2294,"date":"2016-12-20T19:57:21","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T03:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=2294"},"modified":"2016-12-20T19:57:21","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T03:57:21","slug":"review-networks-of-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=2294","title":{"rendered":"Review: Networks of New York"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ingrid Burrington’s Networks of New York<\/em> combines accessible technical descriptions, aggressive journalism, and a subversive bent into an atlas of New York City’s informational and surveillance nervous system. She starts from a simple enough sounding question – “What does the Internet look like?” – and takes off into a city-wide census of construction sites and corporate history.\u00a0 It’s engaging and enlightening, even if you know what the Internet looks like.<\/p>\n

She starts from the very basics, the wires and fibers that pump our informational lifeblood.\u00a0 Her approach is instructional.\u00a0 There’s no easily accessible public map – if there is such a map at all – so she shows us how to infer one.\u00a0 Construction sites mark the routes of the conduits, and she provides a key to interpreting them that lets the interested track the content and affiliation of the pathways.\u00a0 The primer to this telecom argot opens the door to exploration in ways that a map would not.<\/p>\n

The whole book is that way.\u00a0 It’s both an informative tour the infrastructure and a HOWTO for exploring it yourself.\u00a0 Along the way she expands her mandate from mapping the informational tubes to a bestiary of the data collection systems connected to it, from license plate detecting cameras to intriguingly located intelligence offices.<\/p>\n

Networks<\/em> is both an exportation and an invitation to other people and cities to explore their versions.<\/p>\n

A must.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ingrid Burrington’s Networks of New York combines accessible technical descriptions, aggressive journalism, and a subversive bent into an atlas of New York City’s informational and surveillance nervous system. She starts from a simple enough sounding question – “What does the Internet look like?” – and takes off into a city-wide census of construction sites and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2295,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294\/revisions\/2295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}