Thoughtfactory has been experiencing major download problems. A cable was cut in Atlanta, US, yesterday and that was a main route to my Hosting Matters in Florida. So the site was down for most of the day. Hosting Matters says on its Emergency Forum that:

We are currently seeing Level3/WCG timeouts in multiple locations that are preventing requests from reaching the network. This is also affecting the remote monitor, which will show multiple servers down although they are not in fact down....it is indeed confirmed to be dropped routing. Based on the explanations we have received thus far, it appears that an OC3 was taken out by one provider, and with that maintenance, numerous routes were dropped at the same time. Those routes are being rebuilt/readvertised at this time and we hope things will return to normal shortly based on that activity....From Peak10, Telcove has had a major fiber cut in Atlanta, and our Level 3 Circuit is carried over the Telcove line. Telcove technicians are onsite trying to repair the cut right now...the crews are working on it. The word has come down that a couple of other providers also experienced cuts.... the last update we have is that the new fiber has been pulled, is in place, and the splicing process is beginning. They were unable to give us an estimate of how long this will take,

So an event in Atlanta substanially effects people in Adelaide and Florida. That's how internal relations in a network operate; a network in an information economy that is based around diverse digital information flows.

Isn't an information economy the new form of a technologically rationalised world that Horkheimer and Adorno initially mapped in 'The Dialectic of Enlightment'? Shouldn't we be wary of the 'Wired circle', the spokespeople for the wonders of technology, because the intoxication with techology leads to a constructing the realm of a delirious phantasmagoria?

We can accept the totalisation of exchange value and the commodity form in everyday life and history as it is experienced'. So we need to unresolve what has already been violently made 'whole'.

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