... undersea cable network fiber-optic security network ...

... hapticity Aboriginal fiber arts practical aesthetics affect and sensation Tjanpi Desert Weavers ...

... and the 1950s. The second section details how the postwar reinvention of the coaxial cable network negotiated between existing routes of empire, emergent forces of infrastructural decentralization, and a new “club” system of cable laying. The final sections describe how fiber-optic cables were shaped...

... Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (NPY) fiber artworks, known as Tjanpi, may appear as innocuous works of traditional women’s handicraft: baskets, bowls, figurative soft sculpture. This does not, however, deradicalize the gesture contained in their form. Chapter 5 tracks how, within...

...Hapticities Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (NPY) fiber artworks, known as Tjanpi, may appear as innocuous works of traditional women’s handicraft: baskets, bowls, figurative soft sculpture. This does not, however, deradicalize the gesture contained in their form. Chapter 5...

.... In the fiber-optic era, strategies of insulation regulate the terrain of information. The chapter highlights how investments in the station’s architecture simultaneously differentiated the inside and outside of the network and interconnected connected the system locally. The chapter illustrates the critical...

... archaeology, is introduced for the analysis of cable geographies. Using the Arctic Fibre cable project as a case study, the chapter introduces a number of critical concepts, including pressure points, turbulent ecologies, strategies of insulation and interconnection, and traction, to describe the spatial...

... spill over hands, while stones or fibers that have made it into a mouth are taken out again. Some fruits, like apples, compel a person to comer, others, like mangoes, invite chupar. But fruits do not decide by themselves how they will be handled: at a dinner table, in public, or in places that need...