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Györy Kepes, The New Landscape in Art and Science

Data Fantasies and Operational Facts


Infrastructural Epistemologies
Shannon Mattern | The New School
wordsinspace.net | @shannonmattern
Roger Caillois; American Museum of Natural History; Otobong Nkanga
NETWORK
IMAGINARIES
Warning: You’ll encounter a lot of this sort of schlocky corporate
slide-deck-style imagery throughout this presentation.
These images are meant to be more evocative than intelligible.
Reuters
Broadband Matters
Via TM Forum
Marcus Weldon, President, Nokia Bell Labs, Brooklyn 5G Summit 2019
KevinBeaty
FACTS ON
THE GROUND
Via Wireless World
Via Smartworks Partners
Via The Committee of 100 on the Federal City
Rendering via Crown
Castle International
Oliver Munday / WSJ; Vapor IO
Via Futuriom
via GiffGaff
5G STREET
POLITICS
Via EMF Safety Network
Via OpenSecrets
Via Allan Holmes, “5G Wireless Pits Cities Against Telecoms and Their Friends in the FCC,” The Center for Public Integrity
(March 2, 2018)
Keith Webb / WSJ
5G BODY POLITICS
Digital Trends
Smart Cities World
EMF Advice
Marin Independent Journal
TechJaja
W.M Welch Scientific Company, 1944
Fabio Stefanoni Advice
5G GEOPOLITICS
CellularMaps.com
Telcoma
Tablet Mag; Foreign Affairs
New York Times
Ericsson
Samsung Developers
NEXT-GEN POLITICS
Via SDX Central
Fabio Stefanoni Advice
R
NEUTRAL, OPEN
INFRASTRUCTURE
Thank you .

Shannon Mattern | The New School


wordsinspace.net | @shannonmattern
Please don’t ask me highly
technical questions. I mean, just
look at this diagram →
An electrical engineer is much
better equipped to help us
comprehend the intricacies of
the 5G technoscape.

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