The Tunisian censors used “Error 404” to block unwanted websites. The situation changed only after Mohamed Bouazizi burned himself in public on 17 December 2010.
What’s growing in that empty space there? On 17 December 2010, the Tunisian grocer Mohamed Bouazizi burns himself to death in public – the Arab Spring begins, the fire spreads through the Internet. A fast-forward trip through the interior architecture of a modern revolution, right into the dispersed character of the event: from the planet’s surfaces to digital de-spatialization.