Isabel Löfgren 116 urgencies of social, environmental, and data justice. It demands adopting a new mode of listening, accessing cosmologies be- yond Western paradigms, creating new languages, and propos- ing effective actions. The outcome is the imaginary of a terrestrial Internet (Estrada and Lehuédé, 2022), a telluric Internet that diverges from the imaginaries grounded in industrial progress or the virtuality of platforms created by the “twisted angels” of Sili- con Valley. Here, we can envision a socio-technical imaginary that provides a sense of life – a form of buen vivir in the digital realm. This imaginary echoes Latour’s (2018) call to recognize the terrestrial as an active agent rather than a mere backdrop to history and politics. Moreover, it transcends the notion of Earth as a planetary unit composed of two types of spaces: the global and the local (Latour, 2014; 2018; Latour and Weibel, 2020). Both are clichés employed in globalization discourses that favor market expansion at the expense of political borders. For Latour, terrestrial politics breaks with this unifying vision of globaliza- tion, where Earth, seemingly passive and unitary under human control, is exploited to serve political and economic dispersal. Terrestrial politics seeks to re-signify geopolitics with a plan- etary dimension, implying a shift from human-centered politics to Earth-centered politics. While this “planetary turn” illuminates the contradic- tions of modernity, where the Internet is an essentially modern product, Latour’s work has been criticized for overlooking, for instance, the Indigenous voices that sustain alternative on- tologies of the world and the planet, already aligned with this conception of terrestrial politics but systematically ignored, si- lenced, and decimated by the modern imaginary and its colonial roots (Tallbear, 2013; Todd, 2014). 7. Emerging from the Fog To emerge from the hall of mirrors and see through the fog, it would be easy to fall into the trap of the libertarian promises of the cosmology of California’s “twisted angels” and address technology’s problems with more technology – leading
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