Two new publications: Online Courtship and In the Facebook Aquarium. Get your copy now!

Out now! Theory on Demand editions 15 & 16

Two new editions in our Theory on Demand-series are available now! Theory on Demand #15 was published a couple of weeks ago on the eve of the Facebook Farewell Party: Ippolita’s In the Facebook Aquarium.

Theory on Demand #16 is our very first publication about a subject that affects the lives of millions around the globe: love and courtship in a digital age. I. Alev Degim, James Johnson and Tao Fu edited a collection of essays spanning online courtship many cultures. See Online Courtship – Interpersonal Interactions Across Borders.

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In the Facebook Aquarium

Online Courtship – Interpersonal Interactions Across Borders

Naked Logic: Lecture of Boldizsár Hordós at Metaforum X, Budapest

By Geert Lovink, November 12, 2024

I am happy to teach computer history at a fine arts university. Besides, I also work with small kids. Part of my job is to pry phones out of their hands—not the most pleasant part of the day. This is partly because (as with every mandatory intervention) it stirs up more chaos than it prevents. [...]

Infrastructure that Sticks: Digital Affect Within Sovietcore

By Salome Berdzenishvili, November 4, 2024

Жить тяжело и неуютно Зато уютно умирать (Living is difficult and confining, But dying is liberating) The words written above are an excerpt from the song Sudno (Boris Ryzhy) by post-punk band Molchat Doma from Minsk. These words also often loop over the reels on post-Soviet aesthetics found online – the ones of decayed brutalist [...]

Ágnes Básthy: Crisis? What Crisis? Taking a Suspicious Walk around a Fashionable Notion

By Geert Lovink, October 31, 2024

(Text of the speech by Ágnes Básthy on the first day of Metaforum X, Budapest, October 25, 2024) “‘Krisis’ was originally a medical concept which designated, in the Hippocratic corpus of texts, the moment when the doctor decided whether the patient would be able to survive the disease. Theologians reprized the term to indicate the [...]