Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: This essay utilises three comets – Halley’s Comet (1066), the Great Comet of 1811, and Hale-Bopp (1995–97) – to compare Britain’s economic and ecological histories with the internet, linking enclosure, industrialisation, corporatisation, and extractivism on and offline. It introduces the interranet as a conceptual ecology and nature-culture hybrid of infrastructure and land, and e-cology as the interdependent forces that make the internet a living, strained system. The artwork After Halley explores craft as both method and material – an embodied form of ecological knowledge. This research questions how, with new ways of relating, the internet might recover from extractive processes.
Source: Visual Culture in Britain
Author: Alis Oldfield
Language: English
Topic: Art, Technology, and Culture
Subfield: Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W7165863711