Empty Networks: Catastrophic Technology and the End of Democracy

Did we seriously expect the internet to foster democratic coexistence when we ceded its design and management to opaque algorithms owned by the world's largest corporations? The internet, presented as a promise of freedom and democracy, has led to a grotesque landscape of irrationality, hyper-commodification, violence, and the breakdown of commonground. César Rendueles analyzes technological fetishism and argues for the urgent need to imagine other, freer, and more democratic forms of digital socialization.