Isabel Löfgren 114 institutions at the highest levels (Latour, 2018, p. 88). From the perspective of economic and social organization, the “Terres- trial” departs from the logic of endless production and accumu- lation, including the accelerated production of information and communication, toward a logic of interdependence, cooperation, and reciprocity. In the context of climate issues, this perspective emphasizes the symbiosis between humans and non-humans. Ontologically, the terrestrial dimension dissolves the modern distinction between humans and non-humans, thereby redefin- ing the concept of “materiality.” Within this vision, how do we define territory? The no- tion of territory is not limited to national borders but encom- passes both natural territories and those defined by the communities and peoples who inhabit them. According to Estrada and Lehuédé (2022), the territory is “an abbreviation for the system of relations whose continuous re-enactment recreates the community in question” (p. 3). In a broader sense, territory also rep- resents forms of grouping and resistance against the extractive capitalist modernity, especially in areas of mineral extraction such as lithium, essential for manufacturing technical compo- nents that sustain the Internet infrastructure (Svampa, 2016). These resources are often extracted from remote zones, such as maritime, rural, or forested areas, and circulate in the global market as valuable commodities. Therefore, the conception of a “Terrestrial Internet,” as suggested by Estrada and Lehuédé (2022), is intrinsically linked to these territories, where con- ceptions, imaginaries, and cosmologies of Indigenous peoples, Afro-descendants, peasants, and other groups engaged in social struggles, including feminists who consider the body as terri- tory, circulate. In this context, the defense of territory is synony- mous with the defense of the body. From this perspective, the notion of uprootedness and mobility, fundamental to modernity, contradicts the terrestrial vision of the Internet, where issues of belonging, traditionally linked to nationalism and ethnocentrism, assume an extra-terri- torial dimension, from the ground up. In other words, belonging ceases to be merely cultural or social and becomes environmental. Viewed from the perspective of the bodies directly involved at the root of the Internet’s infrastructural complex, such as In-
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