The Internet Does Not Exist - Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle, Hito Steyerl, Keller Easterling, Bruno Latour, Ursula K. Heise, Gean Moreno, Franco Bifo Berardi, Diedrich Diederichsen, Rasmus Fleischer, Jon Rich, Geert Lovink, Joana Hadjithomas, Khalil Joreige, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Julian Assange, Metahaven, Benjamin Bratton, Patricia MacCormack, Jeff Ramsey & Liam Gillick
By Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle, Hito Steyerl, Keller Easterling, Bruno Latour, Ursula K. Heise, Gean Moreno, Franco Bifo Berardi, Diedrich Diederichsen, Rasmus Fleischer, Jon Rich, Geert Lovink, Joana Hadjithomas, Khalil Joreige, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Julian Assange, Metahaven, Benjamin Bratton, Patricia MacCormack, Jeff Ramsey & Liam Gillick
Release Date: 2015-05-01
Genre: Art & Architecture
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 couldnāt 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 isnāt there. All this time weāve 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 canāt. Networks are all edges, as Bruno Latour points out. We thought there were windows but actually itās made of mirrors. And in the meantime we are being faced with more and moreānot just information, but the world itself. And a very particular world that has already become part of our consciousness. And it wants something. It doesnāt 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 planetās knowledge.
āEdited by Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle
With texts by Hito Steyerl, Keller Easterling, Bruno Latour, Ursula K. Heise, Gean Moreno, Franco āBifoā Berardi, Diedrich Diederichsen, Rasmus Fleischer, Jon Rich, Geert Lovink, Brian Kuan Wood and Joana Hadjithomas / Khalil Joreige, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Julian Assange, Metahaven, Benjamin Bratton, and Patricia MacCormack
The Internet Does Not Exist - Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle, Hito Steyerl, Keller Easterling, Bruno Latour, Ursula K. Heise, Gean Moreno, Franco Bifo Berardi, Diedrich Diederichsen, Rasmus Fleischer, Jon Rich, Geert Lovink, Joana Hadjithomas, Khalil Joreige, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Julian Assange, Metahaven, Benjamin Bratton, Patricia MacCormack, Jeff Ramsey & Liam Gillick
By Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle, Hito Steyerl, Keller Easterling, Bruno Latour, Ursula K. Heise, Gean Moreno, Franco Bifo Berardi, Diedrich Diederichsen, Rasmus Fleischer, Jon Rich, Geert Lovink, Joana Hadjithomas, Khalil Joreige, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Julian Assange, Metahaven, Benjamin Bratton, Patricia MacCormack, Jeff Ramsey & Liam Gillick
Release Date: 2015-05-01
Genre: Art & Architecture
