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After Techno-Utopianism-Phil Agre workshop in Siegen (D), Sept 1/2, 2022

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Geert Lovink, August 15, 2022

From: tatjanaseitz@hotmail.com We can finally announce the schedule for the forthcoming workshop, ‘Agre After Techno-Utopianism’, to be held at the University of Siegen, Germany/hybrid, 1-2 September. We will hold two…

Piep Knars Krijs Kraak: Open Call for Art Exhibition

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Geert Lovink, August 15, 2022

(Dutch version below) Under the weight of growth and expansion, the city is cracking at the seams, seemingly about to collapse under its own weight. In the process, it’s making…

Sandro Mezzadra & Toni Negri: Join the Global Fight against the Regime of War

In Tactical Media Room, by Geert Lovink, August 9, 2022

(Authorized translation by INC. The Italian original, Lottare contro il regime di guerra a livello globale, was published August 7, 2022 on the Euronomade website: http://www.euronomade.info/?p=15117) As the Italian election campaign…

Gerade erschienen: In der Plattformfalle-Plädoyer zur Rückeroberung des Internets

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, August 8, 2022

https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-6333-4/in-der-plattformfalle/ Geert Lovink, In der Plattformfalle-Plädoyer zur Rückeroberung des Internets, Transcipt Verlag, August 2022 Wir sitzen alle in der Plattformfalle! Doomscrolling ist die neue Normalität des digitalisierten 24/7-Online-Lebens und scheinbar…

Endangered Profession

In Tactical Media Room, by Elmaz Asan, July 28, 2022

This is the transcript of the speech Elmaz Asan gave during the Tactical Media Room Meetup at Spui25 on the 30th of June, 2022. Read the report on the debates…

Fighting Disinformation: We’re Solving The Wrong Problems

In Tactical Media Room, by Michał 'rysiek' Woźniak, July 26, 2022

Tackling disinformation and misinformation is a problem that is important, timely, hard… and, in no way new. Throughout history, different forms of propaganda, manipulation, and biased reporting have been present…

Weaponized OSINT: The New Kremlin-Sponsored Participatory Propaganda

In Tactical Media Room, by Karyna Lazaruk And Marc Tuters, July 22, 2022

Image credit: Karyna Lazaruk. ‘Warfakes’ (“Война с фейками”) is the name of a popular Russian Telegram channel at the centre of an entire network of related channels that emerged in…

Elevated and Upgraded: The Paradigms of Female Health and Body Optimization

In INC Longform, by Morgane Billuart, July 15, 2022

Figure 1: A wishful cyborg-goddess with glitters. (This is part three of Morgane Billuart's Longforms series. Cycles: the Sacred and the Doomed, On Optimization, PMDD and its Metaphors, as well…

THE VOID 02 | Reclaiming Social Art Policy

In THE VOID, by T.V. Team, July 14, 2022

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The Privacy of War

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Kateryna Iakovlenko, July 11, 2022

Photo: Dmytro Shutaiev, (17 March 2021), with Roman Ratushny. For several months I have been monitoring social media feeds looking for views from the war-zone. Not coincidentally, many current soldiers…

Dispatches from the Place of Imminence, part 11

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Svitlana Matviyenko, July 9, 2022

May 30 – June 20, 2022 Salt disappeared. At the end of May, the shelf at the Silpo supermarket, where it is usually sitting – local or imported – is…

The Crowbar of Cultural Publishing: Introducing the Hybrid Publications Research Group

In Going Hybrid, by Sepp Eckenhaussen, July 6, 2022

As the digital components of cultural programs become more prominent, cultural organizations are faced with questions usually associated with the publishing industries, ranging from practical obstacles to fundamental issues. How…

Great Southern Dance: Transmutation of Experience from elsewhere…

In Performing the Internet, by Nancy Mauro-Flude, 29/06/2022

Great Southern Dance (GSD) is a newly minted company on the Tasmanian performing arts landscape. Its first live production Human Ba La La is a contemporary dance work exploring how…

THE VOID 01 | Stuck on the Platform: Interview with Geert Lovink

In THE VOID, by T.V. Team, June 24, 2022

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Report from the Antipodes: Terpsichorean oscillations with a Telluric Gateway

In Performing the Internet, by Nancy Mauro-Flude, 24/06/2022

I write to you from an island in the far south of the southern hemisphere to share an account of events that manifested around The Unconformity, a festival that never…

“Expectations as Reality” New Essay on The New Design Congress

In ENTREPRECARIAT, by Silvio Lorusso, June 23, 2022

It's finally online the essay derived from the talk I gave at the Yale school of Art in April. In this essay I tried to weave together various themes that…

As above, so below…

In Performing the Internet, by Nancy Mauro-Flude, 23/06/2022

This is my essay for Runway Journal, my intention as editor of Issue 45: Asemic was to introduce text-based computing convictions and a realm of computational poetics into and to…

THE VOID | New Audiovisual Publishing

In THE VOID, by T.V. Team, June 20, 2022

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The Potential and Limits for Call-Out Culture as an Activist Practice: How the Internet Tried to Hold J. K. Rowling Accountable For Her TERF’ism

In The Digital Gutmensch, by Chloë Arkenbout, June 8, 2022

“‘People who menstruate.’ I’m sure there used to be a word for those people. Someone help me out. Wumben? Wimpund? Woomud?” When world-famous author J. K. Rowling posted a trans*phobic…

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