Hito Steyerl explored the death of the internet in “Too Much World: Is the Internet Dead?,” e-flux journal no. 49 (November 2013). Steyerl’s essay begins: “Is the internet dead? This is not a metaphorical question. It does not suggest that the internet is dysfunctional, useless or out of fashion. It asks what happened to the internet after it stopped being a possibility. The question is very literally whether it is dead, how it died and whether anyone killed it.” →.
See “Joint Declaration on Freedom of Expression and responses to conflict situations,” UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, 2015 →.
Sam Frizell, “Donald Trump Wants to Close Off Parts of the Internet,” Time, December 15, 2015 →.
Dave Smith, “GOOGLE CHAIRMAN: ‘The Internet Will Disappear,’” Business Insider, January 25, 2015 →.
Ibid.
J. K. Gibson-Graham, The End of Capitalism (As We Knew It) (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006), 6.
Beatriz Preciado, Manifesto contrasexual (Madrid: Anagrama, 2011).
Ulises Ali Mejias, Off the Network: Distrupting the Digital World (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013), 153.
David M. Berry and Alexander R. Galloway, “A Network is a Network is a Network: Reflections on the Computational and the Societies of Control,” Theory, Culture & Society, 2015: 7.
This essay was originally commissioned by Rhizome as a lecture performance that premiered in April 2016 at Whitechapel Gallery in London, as part of the exhibition “Electronic Superhighway.” An earlier companion to this essay, entitled “Contra-Internet Aesthetics,” was featured in the book You are Here: Art After the Internet, edited by Omar Kholeif and published by Cornerhouse in 2013.