Tarah Wheeler on Nostr: I wrote a book review of "Geopolitics at the Internet’s Core" by Fiona Alexander, ...

I wrote a book review of "Geopolitics at the Internet’s Core" by Fiona Alexander, Laura DeNardis, Ph.D., Nanette Levinson, and Francesca Musiani. It initially seems to be a dense technical history of Internet Protocol—that constellation of technical specifications and social agreements that makes the internet work. But this would be a profound misreading.

What Alexander, DeNardis, Levinson, and Musiani have actually written is something far more elegiac: a cenotaph for a bygone era of consensus and freedom, created by the nerds who midwifed the internet into existence.

https://www.tarah.org/2025/11/17/a-cenotaph-for-internet-freedom-reviewing-geopolitics-at-the-internets-core/