Extinction Internet: Our Inconvenient Truth Moment [electronic resource].

Institute of Network Cultures 2022

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Extinction Internet is not merely an end-of-the-world phantasy of digital technology that one day will be wiped out by an electromagnetic pulse or the cutting of cables. Rather, Extinction Internet marks the end of an era of possibilities and speculations, when adaptation is no longer an option. During the internet’s Lost Decade, we’ve been rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic under the inspirational guidance of the consultancy class. What’s to be done to uphold the inevitable? We need tools that decolonize, redistribute value, conspire and organize. Join the platform exodus. It’s time for a strike on optimization. There is beauty in the breakdown.
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Critical Theory
Historical Materialism
Memes
Computer networks
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Geert Lovink
Mieke Gerritzen
Tommaso Campagna
Laurence Scherz