COVID-19 Diary: Should I Stay or Should I Go?

In No Fun , by Ruth Les, 02/04/2020

  Should I Stay Or Should I Go?   20th March 2020:   Empathy! Solidarity! Togetherness! We are shouting from our balconies in between the intervals of clapping. Buzzwords of…

Plokta TV

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Barbara Dubbeldam, March 31, 2020

When: April 1, 2020 - April 5, 2020

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Aesthetics of Boredom in times of Corona

In Living Industry, by Maisa Imamovic, March 31, 2020

♥ on current modes of materializing the waiting and the world’s impossibility to be bored ♥   "Now that the physical has given up on us as if saying: 'Stop…

SURVIVING NAPOLI: Part Two

In No Fun , by Ruth Les, 29/03/2020

Last time we spoke with Dalia, she had returned to her home city of Naples, Italy, after being fired from her job in Berlin. This week we checked in with…

Letizia Chiappini: Why I feel unsafe and stay in the Netherlands

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Geert Lovink, March 25, 2020

It’s early morning and the Italian news is dramatic. The Corona virus hits Northern Italy with a magnitude comparable to China. My mother and my grandmother are there, alone. Confined…

The Cloud Sailor Diary: Shanghai Life in the Time of Coronavirus

In INC Longform, by Tsukino T. Usagi, March 19, 2020

              I remember the last conversations my former colleague José and I had one year ago. At that time, we were working in a…

The User Condition 02: A Tentative Chronology of the Industrialization of Web Interfaces (work in progress)

In ENTREPRECARIAT, by Silvio Lorusso, March 11, 2020

  Apple's "revolutionary user interfaces" In a previous post, I hypothesized that the evolution of web user interfaces can be understood as their progressive automation which, following the paradigm of industrialization,…

MoneyLab #8 postponed due to Coronavirus

In MoneyLab, by Inte Gloerich, March 10, 2020

We are sorry to announce the postponement of MoneyLab#8 to a date to be defined for reasons of force majeure (coronavirus). In fact the National Security Council of the Republic…

The (Nearly) Complete Bilwet Archive

In Bilwet, by Barbara Dubbeldam, March 9, 2020

The (nearly) complete BILWET archive, made in the nineties, was rescued from web decay by Jaap Vermaas and has found its new home at  https://networkcultures.org/bilwet-archive/.

Jenseits programmierter Traurigkeit, Erklärung zu Hanau

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, March 6, 2020

Von Geert Lovink Vorgetragen bei der Eröffnung der Digikonferenz der Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung im Mousonturm in Frankfurt am Main, 5. März 2020. Am allerwichtigsten ist das Motto: „Ihnen zuhören,…