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This video problematizes the internet as a product of colonialism while drawing from its imagery and function. A disembodied voice says, “The internet is not in the clouds, it lies on the seafloor,” while fiber optic cables are shown buried along transatlantic routes used in the slave trade. Phantom Google search results float in space, a woman sings, a man appears with snakes around his torso. Finally, a head emerges speaking to the conveniences of industrialization and its costs. There is a call to action: what we do has consequences that affect not only future generations, but the earth itself.
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