Sputnik Sweetheart
Haruki Murakami’s narrator searches the night sky for descendants of Sputnik
X-ray mosaic
Marshall McLuhan explores global media as a ‘huge mosaic’ in a 1967 BBC Our World broadcast
Satellite nervous systems
“Among the peoples of the world strange new vortices of power will appear unexpectedly”
Outbreak narratives
Priscilla Wald’s book Contagious explores global networks of contact and contagion
Infodemic
The World Health Organisation’s definition of an ‘infodemic’ refers to the rapid spread of information with growing digitization.
