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Ruins Across the Atlantic

Centered on the Atlantis-2 undersea fibre optic cable — the first to create a direct connection between Europe and South America — this essay traces the deep entanglements between the internet’s material infrastructure, colonial history, and submarine ruins. Connecting the cable’s route to the genealogies of Spanish colonial navigation, and weaving a speculative fabulation around the myth of Atlantis, the text proposes a new way of relating to the internet’s material infrastructure as a fragile ecosystem to care for. First published in English in the proceedings of Politics of the Machines – Rogue Research, Berlin, Open Science, 2021.

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