{"id":5978,"date":"2011-11-01T06:00:22","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T11:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/?p=5978"},"modified":"2011-11-03T08:59:36","modified_gmt":"2011-11-03T13:59:36","slug":"bundled-buried-and-behind-closed-doors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2011\/11\/bundled-buried-and-behind-closed-doors\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;bundled, buried, and behind closed doors&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/30642376?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitAllowFullScreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>[<a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/30642376\">&#8220;Bundled, Buried, and Behind Closed Doors&#8221;<\/a>, a documentary short by Ben Mendelsohn and Alex Chohlas-Wood, looks at one of our favorite things &#8212; the physical infrastructure of the internet &#8212; and, in particular, the telco hotel at 60 Hudson Street.  It&#8217;s particularly fascinating to see how 60 Hudson Street exhibits the &#8220;tendency of communications infrastructure to retrofit pre-existing networks to suit the needs of new technologies&#8221;: the building became a modern internet hub primarily because it was already a hub in earlier communications networks, permeated by pneumatic tubes, telegraph cables, and telephone lines, and thus easily suited to the running of fiber-optic cables.  (This is important because it demonstrates the relative fixity of infrastructural geographies &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2009\/04\/hippodamian-endurance-pt1\/\">like the pattern of the cities they are embedded in<\/a>, the positions of infrastructures tend to endure even as the infrastructures themselves decay and are replaced.)]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[&#8220;Bundled, Buried, and Behind Closed Doors&#8221;, a documentary short by Ben Mendelsohn and Alex Chohlas-Wood, looks at one of our favorite things &#8212; the physical infrastructure of the internet &#8212; and, in particular, the telco hotel at 60 Hudson Street. It&#8217;s particularly fascinating to see how 60 Hudson Street exhibits the &#8220;tendency of communications infrastructure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,15,399],"tags":[291],"class_list":["post-5978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asides","category-infrastructure","category-the-city-we-have","tag-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5978"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6010,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5978\/revisions\/6010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}