Good Data edited by Angela Daly, S. Kate Devitt and Monique Mann will be published by INC in January 2019. The book launch will be 24 Januari @ Spui25. In anticipation of the publication, we publish a series of posts by some of the authors of the book. “Moving away from the strong body of critique of [...]

Our goal here is to develop a framework that can encompass both the design of things and the design of beings. In order to do so, we need a working definition of design. For this purpose let us consider an unlikely source, Karl Marx’s Capital: A spider conducts operations that resemble those of a weaver, Read the rest

“Welke waarden zijn van belang in onze circulaire economie? In 2050 moet de Nederlandse samenleving zijn getransformeerd in een zogenoemde circulaire economie. In deze duurzame recycle-economie bestaat geen afval en worden grondstoffen steeds opnieuw gebruikt. De technologieën om deze ambitie van het Nederlandse kabinet waar te maken, bestaan al. Daarom is het nu tijd voor [...]

Download as PDF (This is a French translation of my essay On the Social Media Ideology, which was published in September 2016 in E-flux Journal #75. The translation was made for the May 2016 Ars Industrialis conference in St. Denis, where I first delivered the text) L’éradication du social : « Nous ne nous connaissons pas nous-mêmes [...]

VideoVortex, an artistic network that deals with the aesthetics and politics of online video, will gather again, this time in Malta, for a two day conference/event and a separate exhibition. If you want to get involved, contribute to the conference, exhibition or screening program, please send us a proposal before 31 Januari 2019.

There’s a long tradition of non-linear narratives in traditional fiction, dating back to the Mahabharata from the 5thcentury BC 1 all the way to Joyce’s Ulysses, published in 1922. The narrative device of non-linearity is not exactly what we’re after though, as we’re looking into non-linear publishing methods that are also somehow interactive and go [...]