Why the Soviet Union Didn’t Build the Internet w/ Benjamin Peters
Tech Won't Save Us
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The History of Networks That Don't Exist to Day
i think history is continuously renewing our newest media. They're always compelling us to rethink the present. And i love how, for me, the story of the soviet network is not just a story about how the soviets,. so called, failed, but rather, it's also a comment about how we in the anglophone west have not designed a network. The notion that in english the word public so often flips into something like public space where voices and actions can be realized is an indictment of ourselves. I think that we are entering this period where the narratives that we have had around the internet for a long time are really coming into question. If nothing else, at
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