The network must be built

What is a computer? Has the American century ended yet? Everything dies, dies, dies. The city, the internet, ____ _____.  The network must be built is a hybrid poetry collection, simultaneously published in English and Dutch, which mixes different forms and gendres in order to narrate a disjointed history. This polymorpheus collection roams like a mishappen travel log past Dutch data centers and silicon America, the Amsterdam of childhood and the college towns of the Midwest.  The network must be built  is a personal investigation into the dead screen, the slow cancellation of the city, the failure of language and representation, the mad scene and the squat, the servers and the social housing market, loss and resistance. This computer speaks English because its bones are American; this machine kills fascists because it wants to kill. Everything dies, except Neopets.