Reaching Beyond the Browser
09/10/2026
Collective Session

Tracing the internet’s evolution, from early utopian visions to its current politicised and commercialised terrain, and what “digital literacy” means today.

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Please Read

Lisa Nakamura (2026), The Inattention Economy: How Women of Color Built the Internet - Introduction and Chapter 1, 'Indigenous Circuits'. An open-access edition is available from the publisher.

Claire L. Evans (2018), Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet - Introduction and one profile or chapter of your choice.

Hito Steyerl (2013), Too Much World: Is the Internet Dead?

Please Prepare

Choose one person, labour practice, community or infrastructure that is often omitted from a mainstream internet timeline.

Add one annotated entry to the shared Are.na timeline. Include a date or period, a short description, a source and a note on what changes when this entry is centred.

Additional Media

Mindy Seu, Cyberfeminism Index - browse at least five entries across different decades.
Tung-Hui Hu (2015), A Prehistory of the Cloud - Introduction and 'Data Centers and Data Bunkers'.
Geert Lovink (2022), Extinction Internet.
Legacy Russell (2020), Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto.
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun (2006), Control and Freedom.