"Teams of engineers had been entrusted with the mission of making society function. They were the ones who had drawn these scenarios to the glory of flows, and, counting on the benefits that an abundance of circulations, circuits and channels would bring, they programmed the autonomous and infinite deployment of machines and networks.

I have been struck by three brutal deaths in recent years: that of Nodar Kumaritashvili, that of Elaine Herzberg, that of Jérôme Laronze. Each of these dramas reminds us of the limits of network engineering kind of fictions and their promises."