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desk-talk #4 / Bojana Romic

In D E S K T O P I A, by @lbert Figurt, July 29, 2021

New issue of the desk-talk series. This is a precious one, since - as in a symmetrical counterpoint to the previous take (with all its related stylistic ruminations) - it's…

Chatting with an AI about Burnout.

In NO FUN, by Jess Henderson, July 28, 2021

Talking about burnout with OpenAI tool GPT-3. In July 2020, OpenAI released Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3 (GPT-3) for beta testing – a natural language processing system (colloquially, an “AI”) that…

Shot Theory: From Viagra to the COVID-19 Vaccine, Pfizer Got it Right

In INC Longform, by Donatella Della Ratta, July 27, 2021

How did data culture evolve in the past decade up to present day? It shifted from the euphoria of sharing for the sake of sharing, characterizing Web 2.0’s advent in…

Performing the Archive: On Carla Gannis’s wwwunderkammer. By Natasha Chuk

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Geert Lovink, July 27, 2021

I click on a weblink that prompts me to join a room. The room is dark and drenched in a purple hue: blue and red hexagonal tiles rotate along the…

Jackson Palmer: Cryptocurrency is an Inherently Right-Wing, Hyper-Capitalistic Technology

In MoneyLab, by Geert Lovink, July 27, 2021

Jackson Palmer’s Concluding Twitter Thread on the Dark Sides of Crypto Currency, July 14, 2021 I am often asked if I will “return to cryptocurrency” or begin regularly sharing my…

A demo poem

In Living Industry, by Maisa Imamovic, July 23, 2021

I’ve learned, A kind of communication, different from the one my masters have taught me, also different from the one my home has taught me. I've been taught that,…

On the Spectrality of Cats in Cyberspace

In Specters of Control, by Anna-Verena Nosthoff & Felix Maschewski, July 22, 2021

"The best material model of a cat is another, or preferably the same, cat." - Norbert Wiener Cats hold a strange role in the history of cybernetics. Most iconically, Norbert Wiener, Julian Bigelow, and Arturo Rosenblueth used…

Out Now – Pandemic Exchange: How Artists Experience the COVID-19 Crisis

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Agnieszka Wodzińska, July 19, 2021

Theory on Demand #41 Pandemic Exchange How Artists Experience the COVID-19 Crisis Edited by Josephine Bosma News reports on the Covid-19 pandemic seldom include how the virus and the societal…

Call for INC Theory on Demand on Ethics Washing in AI

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, July 19, 2021

Call for Chapters/INC Theory on Demand Economies of Virtue: The Circulation of ‘Ethics’ in AI and Digital Culture Edited by Thao Phan, Jake Goldenfein, Monique Mann, and Declan Kuch Who…

Free Download: The ‘We Are Not Sick’ Lyric Book

In NO FUN, by Jess Henderson, July 15, 2021

Print and make your own We Are Not Sick lyric book/zine! Now you can download, print, cut and fold your own lyric book of all the songs from We Are…

Post-Precarity Autumn Camp: How to survive as an artist?

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Sepp Eckenhaussen, July 15, 2021

When: September 27, 2021 - October 1, 2021

Where: Hotel Maria Kapel, Hoorn

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Unveiled, a Mask Theory in Covid Times

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Klara Debeljak, July 13, 2021

During the first lockdown in March 2020, my whole family freaked out. We thought it was the end of the world. My brother traveled home to Europe from California where…

Writing the Feminist Internet: Reimagining Internet Sovereignty as Feminist Laissez-Faire

In Performing the Internet, by Nancy Mauro-Flude, July 7, 2021

This is an excerpt from a larger forthcoming publication (2022) that responds to the collaborative performance work Writing the Feminist Internet (2020) WtFI as a motif of fourth wave feminism.…

Interview with Geert Lovink/We Are Not Sick by Jess Henderson/Band of Burnouts

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, July 6, 2021

Jess Henderson from the No Fun blog (hosted on the INC site) and the Band of Burnouts exhibited in Zurich her own version of the materials generated by We Are…

We Are Not Sick Zine: Interview w. Geert Lovink

In NO FUN, by Jess Henderson, July 5, 2021

An interview with Geert Lovink for Lange Nacht Festival. This past Saturday the Band of Burnouts research lab presented We Are Not Sick at Zurich's annual contemporary music festival Lange…

We Are Not Sick zine: Introduction

In NO FUN, by Jess Henderson, July 1, 2021

This Saturday, my research lab with the School of Commons—Band of Burnouts—is presenting Geert's band We Are Not Sick at Zurich's annual contemporary music festival Lange Nacht. You can see…

Other Worlds

In ENTREPRECARIAT, by Silvio Lorusso, June 29, 2021

A few months ago, I was blessed to join the amazing team of the Center for Other Worlds, a research center for design and art based at Lusófona University. Now,…

Interview with Geert Lovink by Petar Jandrić

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, June 27, 2021

Petar Jandrić: In a 2012 interview for Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, you said: "Internet, by and large, has not affected democratic culture, at least not in the West."…

Access To Tools_

In INC Longform, by Nina Sarnelle, June 18, 2021

As Gods_ If there’s a fight, then, I will fight. And fight with a purpose. I will not fight for America, nor for home, nor for President Eisenhower, nor for…

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