Institute of Network Cultures Blog
From Weak Ties to Organized Networks
Posted on Friday, 3 July 2009, 5:24 pm by margreet
Proudly we present the Winter Camp report; From Weak Ties to Organized Networks - Ideas, reports and Critiques. about the publication: In March 2009 the Institute of Network Cultures brought 12 networks to Amsterdam for a week of getting things done. Aim of Winter Camp was to connect the virtual with the real in order to [...]Review MyCreativity reader by Megan Yarrow
Posted on Monday, 22 June 2009, 10:18 am by margreet
Cultural Studies: My Creativity Reader: A Critique of Creative IndustriesReviewed by Megan Yarrow My favourite piece in My Creativity Reader: A Critique of Creative Industries—a collection of essays edited by Geert Lovink and Ned Rossiter—is Annelys De Vet’s Creativity is not About Industry: I have nothing smart to say about the creative industry. This might be because [...]Recent pictures
net critique by Geert Lovink
The Digital Given–10 Web 2.0 Theses by Ippolita, Geert Lovink & Ned Rossiter
Posted on Monday, 15 June 2009, 8:18 am by geert
0. The internet turns out to be neither the problem nor the solution for the global recession. As an indifferent bystander it doesn’t lend itself easily as a revolutionary tool. The virtual has become the everyday. The New Deal is presented as green, not digital. The digital is a given. This low-key position presents an [...]Teaching at the European Graduate School in Saas Fee
Posted on Friday, 12 June 2009, 11:23 am by geert
I am high up in the Swiss Alps, in the car-free village of Saas Fee, to teach a class for three days to PhD students of the European Graduate School, invited by Wolfgang Schirmacher and Hendrik Speck (who are also teaching here). I was here for the first time in June 2007 (the public lecture [...]
