How to Kill the Internet: On the defense mechanisms of hyper-scaled reproductive machinery

There is, meaningfully, an identifiable array of scaling technologies, interfacial regimes, and applied computational imperatives that produce, in aggregate, the internet, which, upon its collision with our very real condition of many-worldedness freaks out and actively reformats everything it touches into a very weird, unsteady, carcinogenic material. The internet is not only the abstract, dematerialized Cloud, which is what it wants us to think it is. Nor is the internet the same thing as the “Online,” the array of digital human-machine social spaces, which again it lazily poofs out as a kind of camouflage but obviously has enormous impacts on humans.

We want to identify the internet as something far more than a social interface, instead as a highly physicalized armature, or even a kind of anti-physical anti-virus, that moves both earth and world around in aggressive and defensive ways. The internet is also not a component of some kind of geocomputational stack. For us, the internet is not a network protocol, nor an address layer, nor is it a mode of administration. Instead, the internet is the biggest of several reproductive machines belonging to computation, all enrolling themselves recursively across many simultaneous scales.