Love Letter to the Internet

Nearly 5 years after my Open Letter to the Internet (2021), and according to my detailed daily notes as planned already since 29th August 2022, I reveal this surprise: the long awaited part 2/follow-up of this letter, which is a Love Letter to the Internet.

Dear internet, my love, I don’t want to loose you. And I will fight for you and for our love and for our relationship, even if you seem to fight against me. I want to save you, also from yourself and from your naivety, so that you do not fall for malicious actors who threaten to harm you, control you and take you away from me. 

I wrote this text and implemented it using Bitsy again, between 26th and 28th February 2026. To me, Bitsy always remained annoyingly limiting in its visual identity and multimedia capabilities, eventhough some people have managed to pull off more complex micro-artworks with it. Contrary to 2021, I now didn't manage to get the Pixsy tool to function in compatibility with the current version of Bitsy, and thus I complete stayed within this limited default array of pixels. But at least the add bitsy audio tool worked, and like in the post-jam version of the Open Letter, here again I also composed a little soundtrack using Bosca Ceoil (now Bosca Ceoil: The Blue Album), but this time a bit of lighter hopecore.

Contrary to the Open Letter, I didn't work with collaged quotations as extensively, but a quote from Sadie Plant's zeros + ones (1997) sets the stage in the beginning. I usually refer to these kinds of books as "boomer feminism" lol, unfortunately usually very cis-centric and utterly unaware of us nonbinaries, as like most academics older than Gen Y seem to be, which means that most of such "feminist" literature is mostly unusable to me & leaves a sour feeling, and that sucks, which always makes it hard to even quote any of that, and surely creates alienation with white* (heterosexual) cis female academics. This was also a huge issue while working on my book Männer, sagte ich und seufzte / Men, I said and sighed (2024), because writings about "men" and the construct of "patriarchy" is usually done by (bourgeois) white cishet women, and certainly not by us socially isolated receivers of state welfare, leading to a stark contrast in perspective and oftentimes a lack of class solidarity, amongst other things. And then I want to quote a book, but I also don't want to uncritically use it, and it would all require a lot more of framing, and then as usual some Gen Z cis women who haven't even read any of my German 1,000-pages-books jump at me anyways lol, and ugh, it creates a huge mess. But yeah, the quote is kinda nice.