Ingrid Burrington

Networks of New York

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A guided tour of the physical Internet, as seen on, above, and below the city's streets
What does the Internet look like?
It's the single most essentail aspect of modern life, and yet, for many of us, the Internet looks like an open browser, or the black mirrors of our phones and computers. But in Networks of New York, Ingrid Burrington lifts our eyes from our screens to the streets, showing us that the Internet is everywhere around us, all the time—we just have to know where to look.
Using New York as her point of reference and more than fifty color illustrations as her map, Burrington takes us on a tour of the urban network: she decodes spray-painted sidewalk markings, reveals the history behind cryptic manhole covers, shuffles us past subway cameras and giant carrier hotels, and peppers our journey with background stories about the NYPD's surveillance apparatus, twentieth-century telecommunication monopolies, high frequency…
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  • Дмитрий Безугловhas quoted5 years ago
    In 2005, the NYPD launched the Lower Manhattan Security Initiative (LMSI), a project to tighten security specifically around Lower Manhattan similar to London’s “Ring of Steel.”
  • Дмитрий Безугловhas quoted5 years ago
    The New York City Police Department has a few thousand white, labeled surveillance cameras that, according to press reports, are part of a program called Argus. In Greek mythology, Argus was the name of a giant with one hundred eyes. Apparently, coming up with a clever name for a surveillance tool is really hard, so when searching for information about the NYPD’s Argus, one pretty quickly finds other surveillance camera products with the same name and police departments calling their new exciting initiative Argus.
  • Дмитрий Безугловhas quoted5 years ago
    ITT’s colorful history may be too voluminous of a detour within this guide (highlights include: collaboration with the Nazi party and Nazi-sympathetic governments, working with the CIA to covertly finance the 1973 coup of Chilean president Salvador Allende, being bombed by the leftist radical organization the Weather Underground for involvement in the Chilean coup, and being the subject of the Fela Kuti song “International Thief Thief”—seriously, this company was really evil).

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