A Cenotaph for Internet Freedom: Reviewing “Geopolitics at the Internet’s Core”
At first glance, Geopolitics at the Internet’s Core (Amazon affiliate link) by Fiona M. Alexander, Laura DeNardis, Nanette S. Levinson, and Francesca Musiani reads as a dense technical history of Internet Protocol—that constellation of technical specifications and social agreements that makes the internet work. But this would be a profound misreading. What Alexander, DeNardis, Levinson, and Musiani have actually written is something far more elegiac: a cenotaph for a bygone era of consensus...