Webcomic: The Internet's Footprint

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Internet has a big footprint

Internet has a big footprint.

We often hear that the internet is a cloud. But the internet has a big footprint: manufacturing, transportation, energy, usage. With this first release we start a reflective webcomic series around internet's infrastructure from a feminist technopolitical perspective.

Download the webcomic in PDF.

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The streets are empty...

The streets are empty...

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Finally, some peace!

Finally, some peace!

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Global paralisis has reduced human impact. Nature blooms!

Global paralisis has reduced human impact. Nature blooms!

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But thats just one part of the story...

But thats just one part of the story...

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In pandemic, we're online more than ever.

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They tell us that internet is a cloud.

They tell us that internet is a cloud.

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 a spaghetti of undersea cables

But internet is material: a spaghetti of undersea cables.

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Lots of machines blinking

Lots of machines blinking

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Greedy and insatiable extractivism.

Greedy and insatiable extractivism.

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Internet has a big footprint

Internet has a big footprint.

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But we can learn how to care

But we can learn how to care.

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Follow these doodles at genderit.org. Poetic license: share under the moon. Created by Nadège.

Some sources:

The Carbon Footprint of the internet

Submarinecablemap.com

Carry on reading (in Spanish):

Repensar el uso de metales frente al modelo extractivista (Suriendo)

Chiapas, territorio digital geoestratégico (Sursiendo)