Mejias’s Off the Network develops a stringent critique of digital networks by arguing that they do not simply connect society but reorganise it through a capitalist logic that converts participation into inequality . The central proposition is that the network has become more than a technical infrastructure: it functions as an episteme, a way of seeing, arranging and governing the world through nodes and links. This produces what Mejias calls nodocentrism, a condition in which only what is legible as a node becomes visible, valuable or actionable, while whatever remains outside the network is rendered marginal, silent or unintelligible. The apparent generosity of digital participation therefore conceals a deeper asymmetry: users gain convenience, expression and connection, but corporations capture social labour, behavioural data and communicative value. The introductory discussion of Quit Facebook Day offers a revealing case study, since the attempted collective withdrawal from Facebook exposed both user anxiety over corporate control and the difficulty of abandoning platforms that have become embedded in everyday sociality. Similarly, Mejias’s critique of Google-managed institutional email illustrates how public or educational communication can be quietly absorbed into private infrastructures, making participation appear inevitable rather than chosen. Consequently, disrupting the digital world does not require nostalgic rejection of technology, but a more radical intellectual practice of unmapping: learning to perceive the exclusions, dependencies and forms of violence hidden beneath networked inclusion. The book ultimately insists that genuine digital critique begins by imagining forms of social life beyond the compulsory visibility of the node.