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the Internet Protocol is a set of rules for machines to move data packets between each other
postal codes, apartment numbers, doorbells for traffic signals
nets become inter-nets
where is your mail box on the world wide web?
fill in the following boxes with each byte of your ip address
this is how your ip address might sound like
this is another way your ip address might sound like
this is a third way your ip address might sound like
perhaps an ip address could be made to sound like anything
it is, after all, simply four bytes of numbers
readily manipulated, added, subtracted, divided, multiplied, parsed, packed, formatted, broken down, generated and regenerated, ordered and randomized
but perhaps the seeming abstractness of these numbers belies their deeply politicized specificities, their concrete entanglements in power and resource inequalities, and their ambiguous role in perpetuating hegenomic control and jargonized governmentality
consider, for example, ip address blocks assigned to the U.S. Department of Defense
try putting these numbers into the top of the page, and listen to what sounds they might generate.
what are the sounds of these troubled histories? how do we listen and attune to their rumblings and rustlings?
how do we listen and attune to their rumblings and rustlings?