Isabel Löfgren 122 The question for this generation could be: how to reclaim the “techno-social” from the hands of the Californian ethos, as Geert Lovink (2022) asks in his manifesto Extinction Internet, “without falling into offline romanticisms or defensive communalism?” (p. 10). Given that networks are deeply rooted in our lives, Lovink suggests reclaiming the sense of the common to address urgent issues, such as transforming the planet or, at the very least, “leading a dignified and sane life within these net- works that we so love” (p. 8). In my view, this requires a communicational philosophy of care, as proposed by Muniz Sodré (2014), reinterpreting the verb “to communicate” as an action of linking and organizing what is common. Sodré proposes an ontology of communication that goes beyond functionalist prac- tices, invoking the concept of community, of being-in-common, as a basis for projecting a shared future. Just because we are embedded in planetary networks and swallowed by the cloud does not mean we are completely dominated by it. By looking at the planetary issues and the environment-medium, we can better understand the urgent task ahead. Thus, we can create a terrestrial Internet that prioritizes communication and being-in-common, rather than blindly adhering to the cult of connectivity, compulsive interactions, and predictive reporting of data from the clouds. To create this ter- restrial, telluric Internet, we must rethink our habitual relationship with technological structures so that we can produce new imaginaries without the shadow of unchecked efficiency of arti- ficial intelligence. If we relinquish our identification with our platform- selves and instead reclaim the science of the commons, we may conceive other ways of being-in-the-world, demanding social, environmental, and algorithmic justice to free ourselves from toxic clouds, both real and data-driven. And let us continue hunting metaphorical, semiotic, real, and imaginary clouds with our own algorithms, our own collective intelligence, and cre- ative means. Let us become caboclos launching arrows of pre- cise knowledge into the air, for a science, and an Internet, that is yet to come. Instead of fulfilling the prophecies of an Earth exploited by “twisted angels” and their black clouds, we need to reclaim the mountain, the land inhabited by the xapuris (Ko-
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