Patrick Lichty: Zoom Burnout, Teletopics and the Age of Covid

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Geert Lovink, August 11, 2020

Agony and the Ecstasy: Zoom Burnout, Teletopics and the Age of Covid by Patrick Lichty The era of Covid lockdown is Zoom-time. Although at the time of this writing, the…

Yuk Hui: In Memory of Bernard Stiegler

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, August 9, 2020

In Memory of Bernard How could I believe that Bernard has already left us? It is true that Bernard has left, but I don’t believe and will not believe. Since…

To Be Continued… An Interview on Seriality (Part I)

In No Fun, by Jess Henderson, August 6, 2020

With Ryan Engley. Professor of Media Studies at Pomona College, and one-half of the ‘Why Theory’ podcast. To listen to the Why Theory podcast is to sit in a room…

Delete Your Profile, Not People, Comment on Cancel Culture

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, August 5, 2020

by Geert Lovink (official version first published on Eurozine, August 5, 2020) “The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he’s in…

LAVA BRIGADE: LAVA #2 / AIR & EARTH & FIRE

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Geert Lovink, July 22, 2020

"I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion." Henry David Thoreau, Resistance to Civil Government. Please check the CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS for the new…

ML#8: Conference report & documentation now available!

In MoneyLab, by Inte Gloerich, July 20, 2020

Download the CONFERENCE REPORT or go to the documentation of the individual streams below: Stream #1: Critical Finance Strategies: Three Months into the Corona Crisis video | further reading article…

Artists (on) working on the blockchain – A report from MoneyLab8 Stream 8

In MoneyLab, by Inte Gloerich, July 14, 2020

 This blog post covers a panel session organized by Aksioma during the online event series MoneyLab #8: Minting a Fair Society. On the 29th of June, moderator Aude Launay…

ML8: Offshoring and Other Magic Tricks of Global Finance – An Interview with RYBN

In MoneyLab, by Inte Gloerich, July 10, 2020

This interview was first published here. Introduction by Max Gorynski. Interview by Nika Mahnič. A data visualisation of all of the nations implicated in the offshoring accounts disclosed by the…

ML8: A follow-up with Martin Zeilinger and Max Haiven

In MoneyLab, by Inte Gloerich, July 9, 2020

Because there was so much to discuss and many questions from the audience, many of my prepared questions for the speakers remained unasked during Blockchain: Radicalising the Social Imagination. After…

Digital stitch

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Inte Gloerich, July 8, 2020

Written by: Pamela Nelson Sewing is an act of mindfulness. When we embroider or engage in other creative activities like painting or sculpting, our perception of time can become distorted…

COVID-19 Diary: Not Working

In No Fun, by Jess Henderson, July 6, 2020

This edition of my COVID-19 Diaries features a two-part anecdotal poem on 'not working', combining fragments of conversations and dialogues collected over the past three weeks.   1st July 2020…

The Critic-lobbyist (When All Culture Has Become Kulturkritik)

In The Art of Criticism, by Axel Andersson And Miriam Rasch, 06/07/2020

Image by Stjepan Zlodi from Pixabay This is a guest post by Axel Andersson, editor-in-chief of Kritiklabbet in Sweden. The etymological link between criticism and crisis (via the Greek krinein)…

Geert Lovink text archive (1999-2010) transferred to INC

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, June 28, 2020

The dilemma is an old one: should one spread one's legacy here and there in order to minimize risks to lose the information all at once or rather centralize the…

Selfies Under Quarantine: Students Report Back to Rome (Video Episode)

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Geert Lovink, June 27, 2020

After the fifth episode of the Selfies Under Quarantine series, here, at the Institute of Network Cultures, we discussed how such online courses, but also lectures and debates, could make…

‘Counter speed with a blossoming of un-immediacy’: interview on Urgent Publishing

In Making Public, by Miriam Rasch, June 25, 2020

For their upcoming podcast series where researchers in the ARIAS network talk about their projects, Morgane Billuart and Katie Clarke asked me to introduce Making Public and the urgent publishing…

The Speculative Design of Immaculate Motherhood

In Algorithmic Anxiety , by Patricia, June 24, 2020

This article was first published by DigiCult by Patricia de Vries In the next five years, the artificial womb will become a medical reality. Ectogenesis, outside-the-womb gestation, is increasingly viable…

On the Basis of Face: Biometric Art as Critical Practice, its History and Politics

In INC Longform, by Devon Schiller, June 22, 2020

In September 2019 I visited Linz (Austria), the UNESCO City of Media Arts, where I attended the 40th Anniversary of the Ars Electronica Festival, 'the most time-honored media arts festival…

Special issue Urgent Publishing Debris @ Pervasive Labour Union zine

In Making Public, by Miriam Rasch, June 19, 2020

Making Public teamed up with Lídia Pereira of Pervasive Labour Union zine after the Urgent Publishing conference to make a special issue that would move far beyond the known realms…

It’s a book!

In Algorithmic Anxiety , by Patricia, June 15, 2020

Algorithmic Anxiety in Contemporary Art:  A Kierkegaardian Inquiry into the Imaginary of Possibility by Patricia de Vries  Available as open access E-pub here. Over the past decade, a growing number…

NPC.CAFE, Texts on Videogames

In ENTREPRECARIAT, by Silvio Lorusso, June 15, 2020

Gui Machiavelli and I didn't really know where to publish our weird takes on videogames so we came up with our own text repository. It's called npc.cafe because non-player characters…