Movie Details
Theatrical Release:December 28th, 2015
Original Language:English
ContraInternet Inversion Practice 1 Constituting an Outside Utopian Plagiarism on the Web:Official Website
ContraInternet Inversion Practice 1 Constituting an Outside Utopian Plagiarism (2015)
This video begins with the familiar interface of the Macintosh OS X desktop with only one folder shown labeled contrainternet The user clicks over to iTunes plays the song Get Off the Internet by Le Tigre and then opens a series of PDFs of theoretical and political treatises copying and pasting selected passages into a new text document and then using the find and replace feature to rewrite their meaning Texts by JK GibsonGraham Fredric Jameson Paul B Preciado and Subcomandante Marcos that originally opposed economic and sexual hegemony are repurposed as part of a manifesto against the internet itself critiquing its logic and suggesting possible alternatives This is the third work presented as part of Real Live Online curated by Lucas G Pinheiro and Devin Kenny It follows IDPWs Internet Bedroom and João Enxuto and Erica Loves Waiting for the Internet
DirectorZach Blas
