Eulogy for the Internet
Description
AI slop. Brain rot. Virtual communities. Enshittification. How did one of the greatest technological advances of our time go so awry? Rhett Davis, Anna Krien and Cher Tan offer readings, reflections and provocations about the perils and promises of the internet – what it’s become, what it was, and what it could have been. MC’ed with a reading by Matilda Boseley.
Lineup
Rhett Davis
Rhett Davis is the author of Arborescence, a novel about what trees might do if we weren’t careful. It was shortlisted for the Aurealis Award for Science Fiction and longlisted for the Indie Book Awards and the ALS Gold Medal. His first novel, Hovering, was about a city that wasn’t sure that it should be there. It won the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript and was shortlisted for the Readings New Australian Fiction Prize and the Aurealis Award for Science Fiction. Rhett has also been a manager, a consultant, a business analyst, a bookseller, and a creative writing tutor. He lives and writes mostly on Wadawurrung country in Geelong.
Anna Krien
Anna Krien is the author of the award-winning Night Games and Into the Woods, as well as Quarterly Essays, Us and Them: On the Importance of Animals and The Long Goodbye: Coal, Coral and Australia's Climate Deadlock. Act of Grace is her debut novel and her writing has been published widely including in The Monthly, The Saturday Paper, The Age, and Best Australian Stories. Headshot: Jesse Marlow
Cher Tan
Cher Tan is an essayist and critic. Her critically-acclaimed debut essay collection, Peripathetic: Notes on (Un)belonging, was published by NewSouth in May 2024. She is an editor at Liminal and Debris magazines, and the managing editor of Overland.
Matilda Boseley
Matilda Boseley is an award-winning social media reporter and presenter for Guardian Australia. She has spearheaded the publication’s popular TikTok channel where she writes and hosts their short-form news explainers. Her work on the platform has won her a Quill Award for Innovation in Journalism and was nominated for a Walkley Award for the same category. Named Walkley Awards’ 2019 Student Journalist of the Year, Matilda has also worked as a reporter and assistant chief of staff at 7 News Melbourne and as a breaking news reporter for The Age newspaper. She regularly reports on issues affecting young people, women and mental health and her first book, The Year I Met My Brain, documents her experiences and discoveries after being diagnosed with ADHD at 23 and investigates the hidden prevalence and costs of ADHD among adults. Headshot: Ellen Smith
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