
Radical Infrastructure: Imagining the Internet from the Ground Up
Author(s): Britt Paris (Author)
- Publisher finelybook 出版社: University of California Press
- Publication Date 出版日期: February 17, 2026
- Edition 版本: First Edition
- Language 语言: English
- Print length 页数: 338 pages
- ISBN-10: 0520402057
- ISBN-13: 9780520402058
Book Description
What if we could start over and build the Internet from scratch? How could it be rebuilt or reimagined as more equitable and just? For more than eight years, Britt S. Paris investigated alternative Internet infrastructure projects, conducting interviews, site visits, and policy analysis. In this expansive and interdisciplinary study, Paris critically examines the myriad and contradictory promises, utility, and obstacles to building a completely new Internet.
Radical Infrastructure locates and analyzes the boundaries of how people and groups imagine, build, deploy, maintain, and use the Internet as they survive—and even dare to thrive—in challenging political, economic, and environmental contexts. Ultimately, Paris encourages active reflection among scholars, policymakers, and activists and reveals more grounded imaginaries, tactics, and opportunities for future people-centered projects.Editorial Reviews
From the Back Cover
“While capitalist common sense seems to rule everything around us, Paris’s
Radical Infrastructure provides examples of the good sense already in our present: rural Internet cooperatives, municipal Internet, and other visions of solidarity. She offers lessons learned from actual projects, paving the way for joyful struggles in pursuit of a more solidary world.”—Lilly Irani, author of Chasing Innovation: Making of Entrepreneurial Citizens in Modern India“What might the Internet have been? What might it yet become? These are the debates that frame this intriguing book, played out from the halls of Congress to red state rural cooperatives. The answers might just get us the networks and the communities we need.”—Steven J. Jackson, Professor of Information Science, Cornell University
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