Omar Kholeif contributes a newly commissioned essay to 'Dial Up to Utopia: An Oral History of the Early Internet'. This anthology shares the voices of the artists, critics, activists, and writers who were deeply engaged in the genesis and culture of the world's most powerful technology.

Through the stories and recollections of those who were present in the early, anarchic days of the internet, one comes to relive the unparalleled excitement of a technology that many believed would unite the world in utopian harmony, as well as the disillusionment of what eventually emerged: namely, today's culture of vanity and harassment, surveillance capitalism, and political and social repression.

With the utopian dream of the early internet almost unrecognizable to young people today, Dial Up to Utopia aims to convey the euphoria and sense of endless potential the online world once represented to so many, as well as offering a critically optimistic outlook of what might lie ahead.

Omar Kholeif's contribution narrates the necessity for 'opacity' (after Glissant) in the digital sphere; the multiple deaths that we experience, the ends we find ourselves at before we reach a prospective beginning.

Other contributors to the volume include: Jane Metcalfe, Bruce Sterling, Geert Lovink, Ricardo Dominguez, Ruth Catlow, Mindy Seu, Sabria David, Enno Park, among others.