Index

CONTENTS

introduction

Introduction: Network Means and Ends 6
Kristoffer Gansing
What Was the Network? 14
Clemens Apprich, Daphne Dragona, Geert Lovink, and Florian Wüst
Conversation moderated by Kristoffer Gansing

Networks and Networlds

The Never-ending Network: A Repetitive and (thus)
Differentiating Concept of Our Time 24
Clemens Apprich
Networks and Life-worlds: Ends and Endings 33
Daphne Dragona
There Are Words and Worlds That Are Truthful and True 45
Luiza Prado de O. Martins

Human, Nonhuman and
Networks in Between

Network Topologies: From the Early Web to Human
Mesh Networks 58
Alessandro Ludovico
Another Net is Possible 68
Rachel O’Dwyer
Everything We Build 81
In Conversation: Aay Liparoto and Lorena Juan
Molecular Sex and Polymorphic Sensibilities 89
Johanna Bruckner

endings and new becomings

Requiem for the Network 102
Geert Lovink
Other Geometries 116
Femke Snelting
Seven Theses on the Fediverse and the Becoming of FLOSS 124
Aymeric Mansoux and Roel Roscam Abbing

Author Biographies 142