A guided tour of the physical Internet, as seen on, above, and below the city's streets
Ingrid Burrington writes about the Internet, politics, and art, and has been published in The Atlantic, The Nation, ProPublica, San Francisco Art Quarterly, Dissent, and elsewhere. She's given talks at conferences both in the U.S. and abroad, and her art has been exhibited in galleries in New York, Tokyo, Leipzig, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and many other cities. She lives in Brooklyn, and @lifewinning.
“Ingrid Burrington is the premier infrastructure
writer in America.” —Ross Andersen, Senior Technology
Editor, The Atlantic
“A playful, approachable handbook...its goal is to demystify
components of New York City's physical internet: not only those
spray-painted street messages, but also manhole covers, junction
boxes, cable routers and entire buildings whose primary purpose is
to do the hidden work of making a wired modern city run.” —The Wall
Street Journal
“A naturalist style guide to what you can see of New York City’s
internet infrastructure...Anybody can see the objects and markings
that Burrington points out...but after going through Burrington’s
book, they can understand better how they describe the way we keep
in touch now.”—The Observer
“A slim, pocket-size volume that an amateur cable-spotter can use
to decode the city's secret telecommunications infrastructure.”—New
York
“Designed to make the internet tangible...turns the infrastructure
into something ordinary and familiar, not intimidating, and not
some magical process.”—The Intercept
“Sketches the physical extrusions of the internet into New York
City's streets and buildings, [making] especial note of how much of
that infrastructure has been built as part of the post 9/11
surveillance network.” —Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing
“A field guide for city dwellers.”—BBC
“[A] delightful guide to the many facets of the internet that are
hidden in plain view...Beyond the curiosity, identifying these
objects and their relationships to each other is a good frame to
use for understanding the complex histories of New York’s
communication systems.”—Gizmodo
“Maps the complex world of telecommunications in New York City,
revealing hidden pieces of the internet embedded throughout the
city’s fabric.”—Atlas Obscura
“Allows you to see the spray paint, manhole covers and other
markings that make up the tech network map.”—Metro New York
“A handy little book...that shares some of what Burrington has
learned about the physicality of the internet simply by walking
through the city and paying attention to what’s going on
underground, at the surface, and over our heads.”—Inside Higher
Ed
“Like a birdwatcher's guide for IT...[Networks of New
York] maps out a world of technology hidden in plain
sight.”—Inverse
“Burrington changed the way I see New York. From spray-painted
symbols on the streets to cables cross-hatched underground, this
book reveals the cryptic systems that structure city life.” —Kate
Crawford, MIT Center for Civic Media
“Burrington shows us how to read the subtle clues within the urban
landscape that reveal the geography of connectedness—and she helps
us understand the political and social implications of this
infrastructure. I’ll never look at a telecom manhole cover the same
way again.” —Lize Mogel, coeditor of An Atlas of Radical
Cartography
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