Drawing upon the themes discussed in the second week of classes, more specifically the different registers of Materiality, I thought it would be interesting to draw upon what I believe to be the hidden infrastructures within the hidden infrastructures of the internet. By such I mean to draw attention to he Dark Web and the Deep Web. These are, "encrypted network that exists between Tor servers and their clients, whereas the "deep web" is simply the content of databases and other web services that for one reason or another cannot be indexed by conventional search engines” (Quora 2016). Although we discussed the more physical notion of hidden pathways (telecommunication and fibre optic cables bellow ground), I wonder where in this already discrete infrastructure do the dark places of the Internet fall into place. When such places cannot be mediated by traditional power relations, what does it mean for the capitalist process which occur from such?
Attached below is a link to an article by Vice.com which analyzes how a teenager managed to make million on the Deep Web through illicit practices. I implore my fellow classmates to question how can virtual infrastructures moderate all aspects of the web where traditional power structures such as the law do not operate?
http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/meet-the-19-year-old-kiwi-that-makes-5000-a-week-from-the-deep-web
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