The Institute of Network Cultures (INC) analyzes and shapes the terrain of network cultures through events, publications, and online dialogue. Our projects evolve around urgent publishing, alternative revenue models, critical design and making, digital counter culture and much more.

Relevant Tools & Practices in Hybrid Publishing

In Going Hybrid, by Sepp Eckenhaussen, October 3, 2022

Seeing the wild amount and variety of experimental publications brought to the world, it is hardly possible to claim that any of them is a 'best practice'. But some of…

Gathering the Wounded’s Traces: From Self-Study to Data Collections

In INC Longform, by Morgane Billuart, October 2, 2022

Figure 1: Screenshot from Clue App and no coping mechanism. One more menstrual cycle that lasts more than forty days. The bitch isn’t in a hurry, and my Clue app…

Dispatches from the Place of Imminence, part 12

In Tactical Media Room, by Svitlana Matviyenko, September 29, 2022

June 26 – August 30, 2022 I have been resisting to return to writing this dispatch for more than two months. Notes – yes, constantly. Writing – occasionally, but not…

A Living Archive is Also a Dying Archive

In Going Hybrid, by Sofia Boschat-Thorez, September 21, 2022

In early April of 2022, a sub-group of the researchers involved in the Going Hybrid project came together for a first knowledge session, which was also the first physical gathering…

Grand Opening Program of LetterVerZ

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Geert Lovink, September 20, 2022

Vrijdag 23 september 2022, om precies 15.00 uur, vindt de officiële opening van LetterVerZ plaats bij De Dokwerker en de Weesperbrug, de M.S. Vaz Diasbrug. Daarmee vieren we dat het…

Platform BK Solidarity Camp

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Sepp Eckenhaussen, September 20, 2022

When: September 22, 2022 - September 24, 2022

Where: Casco Art Institute, Utrecht

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Memes Beyond Images: Memetic Tacticality Conference

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Chloë Arkenbout, September 15, 2022

When: November 11, 2022

Where: Spui25, Amsterdam

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The Moon’s new fury

In Performing the Internet, by Nancy Mauro-Flude, 15/09/2022

As I write about the moon’s new fury, my fingers summon symbols on the keyboard in a proprioceptive séance of transmission. I am taken by the mood of introspection and…

Christopher Kelty: The Internet We Could Have Had

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

Ten years ago I began writing a book. It was going to be called Power/Sharing and would pick up on my previous book Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free…

Video: Dromen van post-precariteit

In Our Creative Reset, by Sepp Eckenhaussen, August 29, 2022

De cultuursector van de toekomst, hoe zou die eruit kunnen zien? De urgenties zijn overduidelijk: sociale onveiligheid, teruglopende bezoekersaantallen en een slecht functionerende arbeidsmarkt. Op 21 juni 2022 gingen we…

Critical Coding Cookbook

In Performing the Internet, by Nancy Mauro-Flude, 17/08/2022

It’s here: the Critical Coding Cookbook website contains a collection of 24 recipes that consider computer programming from cultural, philosophical, and decolonial frameworks. The Critical Coding Cookbook perceives history as…

As above, so below…

In Performing the Internet, by Nancy Mauro-Flude, 17/08/2022

I have revisited this my preamble for your reading pleasure, initially posted in haste. Recently Runway Journal issue 45 was launched. As guest editor - my intention behind developing Issue…

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…

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 as…

THE VOID 02 | Reclaiming Social Art Policy

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

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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…

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