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... 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...

.... 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...