With her poetic manifesto Brazilian artist Vanessa Ramos-Velasquez transfers ideas around cultural cannibalism and anthropophagic practices as coined by her countryman Oswald de Andrade in his 1928-text Manifesto Antropófago into the present digital age – For in today's world, it is the virtual world which poses the new frontier making everyone a potential coloniser. In this lecture Vanessa Ramos-Velasquez presents her research paper and manifesto-poem.