Save the Date: MoneyLab #7 Amsterdam, 14-15 November 2019

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Inte Gloerich, April 17, 2019

MoneyLab #7: Geo-Politics of Financial Flows Save the date: Amsterdam, November 14 & 15, 2019. The Institute of Network Cultures is proud to announce the return of MoneyLab to Amsterdam: two days filled with presentations, workshops, performances and discussions by and with artists, academics, activists, geeks, and students about pressing financial issues. What is the

Vulnerability of the Networked Generation: Interview with Geert Lovink by Lovro Japundžić

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, April 15, 2019

https://www.kulturpunkt.hr/content/vulnerability-networked-generation For Kulturpunkt.hr, recorded in Zagreb on March 29, 2019 According to the classical definition, melancholy is similar to sadness, at least in its manifestation of loss of interest for the external world. But, while in the traditional sense we associate it with retreatment and introspection, in the contemporary world sadness has become an integral

Link list on bitcoin & blockchain, demonitization and other MoneyLab issues (part 6)

In MoneyLab, by Geert Lovink, April 7, 2019

Adam Hayes: The Socio-Technological Lives of Bitcoin https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0263276419826218?journalCode=tcsa Bitwise: “As part of 226 slides presented to the SEC on our ETF filing, we did a first-of-its-kind analysis of *order book data* from all 81 exchanges reporting >$1M in BTC volume on CMC. TLDR: 95% of reported volume is fake but LOTS of good new Apple

Today’s Exhausting Distraction: Interview with Geert Lovink by Teresa Numerico for Il Manifesto

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, April 6, 2019

Interview with Geert Lovink by Teresa Numerico about the recently published Italian translation of Sad by Design (EGEA/Bocconi Editore: Nichilismo digitale, L’altra faccia della piattaformea), for the Il Manifesto newspaper, April 6, 2019. Two book launches are coming up: Rome, April 1o (John Cabot University, 6.30 PM) and Napels, April 12 (l’Orientale, 3.00 PM). TN:

Book Launch State Machines: 23 April @Furtherfield, London

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Inte Gloerich, April 5, 2019

State Machines: Reflections and Actions at the Edge of Digital Citizenship, Finance, and Art Join editors Yiannis Colakides, Marc Garrett, Inte Gloerich, contributors Max Dovey and Helen Kaplinsky, and respondent Ruth Catlow for short presentations with plenty for time for discussion. LOCATION: Furtherfield Commons, 269-271 Seven Sisters Road, London DATE: Tue, April 23, 2019, 6:00

The Art of Financial Hacking – EU Edition

In MoneyLab, by Inte Gloerich, April 4, 2019

By: Emma Kraak This article is a report on the Art of Financial Hacking workshop that took place in Brussels in April 2018. In this extensive four-day workshop, Paolo Cirio, Brett Scott and Luce Goutelle took participants on a journey into the dark heart of finance, showcased previous investigations and interventions into the financial sector,

Citizen D podcast 042: James Bridle and the new dark age

In State Machines, by Inte Gloerich, April 2, 2019

By Državljan D. (Citizen D) We sat down with James Bridle who was visiting Ljubljana to give a talk at the Aksioma gallery to talk about the evergrowing problem of technodeterminism and the way future is being predicted by the machines. Listen to the podcast here. What’s the role of humanities in the information society,

Unpublishing: A Problem of Access

In Making Public, by Miriam Rasch, April 2, 2019

By Nadine Rotem-Stibbe Unpublish – ‘make content that has previously been published online unavailable to the public’. A stark reminder that this is easier said than done comes from the Oxford Dictionary: ‘Once the images have been published on the internet it will be practically impossible for any court order to unpublish them.’ And: ‘After

On the Barricades of the Incalculable: Against Algorithm Addiction

In INC Longform, by Sepp Eckenhaussen, March 22, 2019

By Stefano Diana. Frontiers are usually zones of trafficking, and the moving boundaries of knowledge are no exception. There you may encounter the weird and adorable creatures known as paradoxes.

Conjuring Spirits in the Black Box of Finance

In Algorithmic Anxiety , by patricia, March 21, 2019

Conjuring Spirits in the Black Box of Finance by Patricia de Vries This essay appeared in State Machines: Reflections and Actions at the Edge of Digital Citizenship, Finance, and Art. Order a free copy or download the epub here. The whole terrible fight occurred in the area of imagination. That is the precise location of