Institute of Network Cultures Blog
SoftWhere 2008: Software Studies Strategy Round-Table
Posted on Sunday, 6 July 2008, 10:11 pm by anne
Day two of SoftWhere 2008 was an invite-only strategy round-table session that aimed to address several questions on the formation of a new field of studies. What is Software Studies? Is it an intellectual movement, a paradigm, a school or field? According to the Software Studies Initiative directors Lev Manovich and Noah Wardrip-Fruin it is whatever we [...]Summer time
Posted on Thursday, 3 July 2008, 7:23 pm by sabine
Now that school’s out, and the Video Vortex Reader editing process is in full swing, Network Notebook #2 is being fine tuned, the new publication in the Studies in Network Cultures series is being written, and we’ve started the preparations for our next event (in March 09), it’s time to wish you all a wonderful [...]Recent pictures
net critique by Geert Lovink
Review of Gail Pool and her Plight of Book Reviewing in America
Posted on Monday, 16 June 2008, 4:03 pm by geert
Gail Pool, Faint Praise, The Plight of Book Reviewing in America, Columbia, University of Missouri Press, 2007, reviewed by Geert Lovink. For a long-term reader of the New York Review of Books like me it came as a surprise to read about the decline of book review culture in America. Of course, in the Land of [...]Beyond the Wearable: Interview in Social Fabrics
Posted on Sunday, 15 June 2008, 11:23 am by geert
One of my ambitions was to become a ‘fashion philosopher’, to write in Vogue about (media) theory with the aim to overcome Roland Barthes’ semiotics legacy. Maybe one is never too old to enter this glamorous field of knowledge, so it could still happen! My involvement did not go further than a few [...]
