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“Instead of using the cable break as an opportunity to increase technological literacy, popular discourses downplay the diversity and frequency of faults, more often coding disconnection as a large-scale disruption to the dominant cultural order.”
― Nicole Starosielski, The Undersea Network

“Creating new cultural narratives for undersea cables is critical to an informed public participation with the transnational Internet, especially in a privatized cable system where, as described in chapter 1, public perception can affect the development of new networks.”
― Nicole Starosielski, The Undersea Network

“In other words, media critique is not only about saying things, it is about design and materiality – doing critique in an alternative fashion, against the grain, so to speak (see Lovink 2003: 11). Through such material existence, the media-archaeological work puts the spectator/user/viewer into a new relation with the imaginary, and hence forces us to engage creatively with the presence of media – new and old, imagined and real.”
― Jussi Parikka, What is Media Archaeology?

“The lack of awareness extends even to the highest levels of the U.S. government: President Barack Obama’s 2013 executive order on cybersecurity made no specific mention of the undersea cable industry.”
― Nicole Starosielski, The Undersea Network