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‘Moneylab Updates 2021’, lecture by Geert Lovink at Hotel Maria Kapel (Hoorn)

In Our Creative Reset, by Angela Luong, December 1, 2021

Presentation on Wednesday morning September 29, 2021, the third day of the Post-Precarity Autumn Camp: How to Survive as an Artist? at Hotel Maria Kapel, Hoorn (NL). As crypto fantasies…

Call for Proposals – Memes Beyond the Image

In Viral Image Culture, by Chloë Arkenbout, December 1, 2021

The Institute of Network Cultures is looking for theorists, researchers, journalists, artists, activists, designers and other creatives and thinkers that are working on meme studies and practices, that want to…

Freelance Worker in the Dutch Cultural Sector? Fill Out This Income Loss Survey

In Our Creative Reset, by Sepp Eckenhaussen, November 30, 2021

Once again the cultural sector is being hit hard by the corona measures and once again the self-employed are at risk of being left without support. In order to take…

a blizzard of flakey hunches

In D E S K T O P I A, by @lbert Figurt, November 30, 2021

It's night, at least outside. Pixels are flowing down, like a sharade of electrified snowflakes: tiny little floating elementals, peacefully fighting for some unique shiny spark, dancing and trembling with…

Raw Memory, Ephemerality of the Eternal in WhatsApp by Natalia Stanusch

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Geert Lovink, November 29, 2021

https://vimeo.com/650892559 Hauntology of Metadata WhatsApp presents itself to us as a service that belongs to us. The sent images, the videos, the messages are encrypted for my privacy because they…

A Poem about a Container

In Living Industry, by Maisa Imamovic, November 26, 2021

I need a container, To help me contain The fluidity of all That I do not desire To chain; like a company. Academic, cultural, scholarly, instructive. Youtube tutorial. …

‘The Elephant in the Device’, Silvio Lorusso on Gig Platform Fiverr

In Our Creative Reset, by Sepp Eckenhaussen And Angela Luong, November 24, 2021

Need a logo, webdesign, translation, or set of subtitles? In the mood for something more extravagant, like a personal video message from Jesus Christ? Fiverr is your place to go.…

Recap: Critical Meme Reader Launch @ Spui25

In Viral Image Culture, by Chloë Arkenbout, November 23, 2021

On the occasion of the launch of the ‘Critical Meme Reader, Global Mutations of the Viral Image’, edited by Chloë Arkenbout, Jack Wilson and Daniel de Zeeuw, we dived into…

#Overexposed: Technological Sadness, Overconsumption and Memory Loss

In INC Longform, by Iris Hagel, November 23, 2021

As a designer, when I choose a topic to discuss, it is usually based on my own experiences. As I am a keen observer of human behavior, I noticed something…

Lars Spuybroek THE GRACE MACHINE Seminar

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, November 17, 2021

THE GRACE MACHINE Seminar is an experiment that challenges the distinction between the humanities and technology by using a form of thinking based on what Roland Barthes called “gymnastic figures.”…

Digital Esoterism Or to be a Witch in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism

In INC Longform, by Ginevra Petrozzi, November 15, 2021

The following text has been extracted from Digital Esoterism Master thesis, produced within the Social Design Department of Design Academy Eindhoven, 2021. This text will follow the structure of a…

Notes on Design Populism

In ENTREPRECARIAT, by Silvio Lorusso, November 15, 2021

Like many others, I’ve been following @neuroticarsehol for years now. Mostly popular within graphic design circles, NA is a shitposting account active on both Twitter and Instagram that makes fun…

De Macht van Memes @ Het Redelijke Midden

In The Digital Gutmensch, by Chloë Arkenbout, November 15, 2021

Kattenplaatjes hebben het vermogen om een revolutie aan te zwengelen, als we er slim gebruik van maken. Pim en Dennis van de linkse podcast Het Redelijke Midden vragen in hun…

4 Demands for Economically Responsible Art Education

In Our Creative Reset, by Sepp Eckenhaussen, November 13, 2021

Our future generations of artists deserve to be prepared for the unruly reality of the labor market of the cultural sector. We therefore find it hard to understand why many…

Visit the “House Peace” Art Show at Amsterdam Squat Hotel Mokum

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Geert Lovink, November 12, 2021

Update 2: On Saturday November 27, 2021 the Amsterdam riot police used violence to evict the Hotel Motel squat, after peaceful demonstration outside and a protest manifestation on Leidseplein the…

The Left Can Meme: Strategies to Challenge Dutch Oppressive Political Discourses

In The Digital Gutmensch, by Chloë Arkenbout, November 11, 2021

“One must speak for a struggle for a new culture, that is, for a new moral life that cannot but be intimately connected to a new intuition of life, until…

A Poem about Venice Biennale 2021

In Living Industry, by Maisa Imamovic, November 8, 2021

At the core of your research trip, An event; Where conclusions land just on time, Where solutions shadow the cyborgs, Where machines work with us, Not for us. Of course.…

Young Creatives Unite at Blend 2021

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Agnieszka Wodzińska, November 6, 2021

Illustrators, designers and other creatives gathered in a skatepark in Breda last month to learn from each other and discuss the realities of working in precarious conditions where disciplines merge,…

6 Theses on the Deprofessionalization of Design

In ENTREPRECARIAT, by Silvio Lorusso, November 3, 2021

1. According to Donald Schön, a professional is someone who "claims extraordinary knowledge in matters of human importance, getting in return extraordinary rights and privileges." This definition proves that a…

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