Global Communications – Imagining Wellbeing

Away

Vona Groarke’s poem ‘Away’ describes the transatlantic time gap of living ‘three thousand miles ago, five hours in the red’

Sigmund Freud contemplates telegraphy and long-distance travel

Wireless World magazine covers often featured illustrations of networked world maps

Macdonald Gill’s map for the UK Post Office map illustrates a network of two way voice connections

The All Red Line was an informal term for the telegraphy network that linked regions of the British Empire

Howe’s Adventures and Achievements of Americans illustrates the 1858 Atlantic Telegraph cable

Samantha Harvey’s novel muses on distorted time and a ‘swarm of satellites’ circling the earth

Haruki Murakami’s narrator searches the night sky for descendants of Sputnik

JG Ballard argues that ‘Invisible technologies rule our lives’

Marshall McLuhan explores global media as a ‘huge mosaic’ in a 1967 BBC Our World broadcast