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The People are Not an Image: A Conversation on Vernacular Video [3/3]

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Alexandra Juhasz And Peter Snowdon, April 7, 2021

This is the final blog post of the three-part conversation between film professor, media producer, theorist, and activist Alexandra Juhasz and writer and filmmaker Peter Snowdon. Alex In this moment,…

The People are Not an Image: A Conversation on Vernacular Video [2/3]

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Alexandra Juhasz And Peter Snowdon, April 7, 2021

This is the follow-up of the three-part blog series of the insightful conversation between film professor, media producer, theorist, and activist Alexandra Juhasz and writer and filmmaker Peter Snowdon. Alex…

The People are Not an Image: A Conversation on Vernacular Video [1/3]

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Alexandra Juhasz And Peter Snowdon, April 7, 2021

This is the first of what will be a three-part blog series in which we present the insightful conversation between film professor, media producer, theorist and activist Alexandra Juhasz and…

Ghostly Design

In ENTREPRECARIAT, by Silvio Lorusso, April 6, 2021

The design field operates according to a fundamental conviction: that what we call design has an unambiguous existence. Back in the days, delimiting design was easy: whereas the mass-produced moka…

How and Why to Start a Meme Studies Research Network: A conversation with Idil Galip

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Chloë Arkenbout, April 6, 2021

As the co-editor of the upcoming INC Reader about critical meme research, you can imagine when I received an invitation to the Meme Studies Research Network I got really excited.…

hikiko[memento]mori

In D E S K T O P I A, by @lbert Figurt, April 4, 2021

I live in the shadow. Haven't left my house for almost a year, now. They say after six months you could be labeled that way. They also say it's a…

Questions from Pablo Gámez Cersosimo

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, April 2, 2021

Questions from Pablo Gámez Cersosimo “ Wir fragen nach der Technik und möchten dadurch eine freie Beziehung zu ihr vorbereiten. Das Fragen baut an einem Weg, ein Weg des Denkens.”…

Samos Calling: Phone Credit for Refugees

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, April 1, 2021

Samos Calling: refugees receive first phone credit Twenty African refugees living in the Vathy camp on the Greek island of Samos received €12,50 of phone credit from a new initiative named SAMOS…

Disturbing Moment of the Day: Letter from the University

In , by Jess Henderson, March 31, 2021

For over a year now, life inside of the University has been weird – and it seems to only be getting weirder. Today the entire student and faculty cohort received…

The Digital Gutmensch: The Ethics of Challenging Oppressive Discourse in Online Public Debate

In The Digital Gutmensch, by Chloë Arkenbout, March 30, 2021

A Research Project About Moral Responsibility, Allyship and the Power of the Words We Choose I’ve been called a Gutmensch more times than I can count. And yes, I…

MoneyLab#11 Chat during NFT/Crypto Art Debate

In MoneyLab, by Geert Lovink, March 29, 2021

The Discord chat below ran parallel to the MoneyLab #11 session MONEY TALKS – A Participatory Online Debate on Crypto Art & NFTs on Friday night March 26, 2021. What…

MoneyLab#11 pitch on on Financialization of the University

In MoneyLab, by Geert Lovink, March 29, 2021

Stephen Hastings-King on Financialization of the University For the MoneyLab #11: Disaster Capitalism Friday Session, Community Call-in: Across the Time Zones, March 29, 2021. My partner Kelly Grotke and I…

Materials of the String Figures @MoneyLab#11 Workshop

In MoneyLab, by Geert Lovink, March 29, 2021

String Figures is a project developed by Ailie Rutherford and Bettina Nissen to allow activist, feminist and creative groups working for social justice to support and strengthen each other’s work…

Call for ML to organize fin. support for migrants on Samos

In MoneyLab, by Geert Lovink, March 29, 2021

(this is the text presented at the Friday night open session of MoneyLab #11 by jo@xs4all.nl) Hi, I am extremely happy to join Money Lab for the first time! My…

Design Panism: A Timeline

In ENTREPRECARIAT, by Silvio Lorusso, March 28, 2021

1962 “Every human being is a designer. Many also earn their living by design – in every field that warrants pause, and careful consideration, between the conceiving of an action…

Schöne, neue Wearables. Oder: „da ist keine Stelle, die dich nicht sieht“

In Spectres of Control, by Anna-Verena Nosthoff & Felix Maschewski, March 27, 2021

Ich lebe mein Leben in wachsenden Ringen, die sich über die Dinge ziehn. - Rainer Maria Rilke Technische Innovationen neigen häufig dazu, gesellschaftliche Normen zu überholen, ihre Wirksamkeit und Gültigkeit still…

Watch the Public Spaces Conference – Hybrid Events Session back

In Going Online, by Marijn Bril, March 26, 2021

Exactly two weeks ago the Public Spaces conference Towards a Common Internet took place. The Hybrid Events table session particularly discussed online/offline event constellations: their opportunities, pitfalls, platforms, and experiments.…

THE TECHNOLOGICAL ZOMBIE

In The Technological Zombie, by Donatella Della Ratta, March 16, 2021

Technology can turn us into zombies, as Concordia University student Aaron Ansuini bitterly discovered. While searching for the email address for his professor Francois-Marc Gagnon, he instead found his obituary.…

Dehumanizing the User Experience

In The Cloud-Based Designer, by Paul Bille, March 15, 2021

Talking about the aesthetics of big-tech is tricky. The ubiquity of flat, geometric sans-serifs, cutesy illustrations and their compulsively positive kindergarten appeal seems to be too easy of a target.…

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