Main entry:

Steyerl, Hito, author, filmmaker.

Title & Author:

The internet does not exist / Hito Steyerl.

Publication:

Berlin, Germany : Sternberg Press, 2015.
[New Haven, Connecticut] : Library Stack, [2021]

Description:

1 online resource (198 pages) : illustrations

Notes:
In free fall : a thought experiment on vertical perspective -- In defense of the poor image -- A thing like you and me -- Is a museum a factory? -- The articulation of protest -- Politics of art : contemporary art and the transition to post-democracy -- Art as occupation : claims for an autonomy of life -- Freedom from everything : freelancers and mercenaries -- Missing people : entanglement, superposition, and exhumation as sites of indeterminacy -- The spam of the earth : withdrawal from representation -- Cut! reproduction and recombination.

Summary:

"The internet does not exist. Maybe it did exist only a short time ago, but now it only remains as a blur, a cloud, a friend, a deadline, a redirect, or a 404. If it ever existed, we couldn't see it. Because it has no shape. It has no face, just this name that describes everything and nothing at the same time. Yet we are still trying to climb onboard, to get inside, to be part of the network, to get in on the language game, to show up on searches, to appear to exist. But we will never get inside of something that isn't there. All this time we've been bemoaning the death of any critical outside position, we should have taken a good look at information networks. Just try to get in. You can't. Networks are all edges, as Bruno Latour points out. We thought there were windows but actually it's made of mirrors. And in the meantime we are being faced with more and more -- not just information, but the world itself. And a very particular world that has already become part of our consciousness. And it wants something. It doesn't only want to harvest our eyeballs, our attention, our responses, and our feelings. It also wants to condition our minds and bodies to absorb all the richness of the planet's knowledge."-- provided by distributor.

Resources:
Full text - limited user access. Check the number of available copies under the "Library Stack Reserves Circulation" Section.

ISBN:

9783956791307 (ebook)
3956791304
(print)
9781934105825

Subject:

Art, Modern 21st century Philosophy.
Image (Philosophy)
Art Political aspects.
Art Economic aspects.
Art 21e siècle Philosophie.
Image (Philosophie)
Art Aspect politique.
Art Aspect économique.
political art.
Art, Modern Philosophy
User interfaces (Computer systems)
Cloud Computing
Computer networks
Transborder Data Flows

Form/genre:

Electronic books.
Essay Collection.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Added entries:

Berardi, Franco, writer of introduction.
Easterling, Keller, 1959- author.
Library Stack, distributor.
Library Stack.