Abstract This paper examines discourse around the positioning of Internet access as a human right, including global access campaigns (A Human Right, One Laptop Per Child), hacktivist responses to the 2011 Egyptian Revolution Internet blackout, and rhetoric employed by political and technological leaders. The language surrounding the “access as human right” debate, I argue, has largely re-presented the Bildungsroman narrative that Joseph Slaughter finds embedded in international human rights discourse. However, the materiality of Internet access and the networks it requires has also asserted its visibility in ways that draw attention to the human-material anatomy of infrastructure. Drawing on John Durham Peters’ philosophy of infrastructuralism, Judith Butler’s work on bodily vulnerability, and new materialist notions of human and nonhuman networks, I suggest that this inescapable materiality is the most valuable contribution of “access as human right” discourse, and that it points us productively toward a theory of rights that visibilizes and values the material and the infrastructural.

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脱节：想象物质基础设施的权利

摘要 本文探讨了关于将互联网接入定位为一项人权的论述，包括全球接入运动（一项人权，每个孩子一台笔记本电脑）、黑客行动主义对 2011 年埃及革命互联网停电的反应，以及政治和技术领导人使用的言论。我认为，围绕“作为人权的访问”辩论的语言在很大程度上重新呈现了约瑟夫·斯劳特 (Joseph Slaughter) 发现嵌入国际人权话语中的成长小说叙事。然而，互联网访问的重要性及其所需的网络也以引起人们对基础设施的人与物质解剖结构的关注的方式断言其可见性。借鉴约翰达勒姆彼得斯的基础设施主义哲学，朱迪思巴特勒关于身体脆弱性的工作，以及人类和非人类网络的新唯物主义概念，