It’s ironic perhaps that our digital revolution for the most part depends on labourers, just like the roads, the canals, the railways did. Navigators, navis, digging trenches and laying cables. Here we see the flimsiness of the network, a box of rainbow wires and connections held together with duct tape. Its low hum.

thoughts from abroad
a super highway
of jackhammers and shovels

Paul Conneally
December 14th 2021