Read Cabinet
The current issue of Cabinet- A Quarterly of Art and Culture contains an essay that makes the bold claim that the internet is not structured like a distributed network (Deleuze’s beloved “rhizomatic” networks) but is centralized, as it is built on an old (19th century), centralized infrastructure. The essay is convincing, beautiful, and written by Kazys Varnelis, who teaches the history and theory of architecture at the University of Pennsylvania.