BLACK BOX EAST: POST-COMMUNIST LABORATORIES OF GLOBALIZATION

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Dunja Nešović, October 19, 2021

BLACK BOX EAST is the project of the Berlin Gazette that was oriented towards uncovering the latent material and ideological structures that keep the eastern, post-communist areas as the (exploited)…

Link list on NTFs, crypto art, blockchain and other MoneyLab issues (part 12)

In MoneyLab, by Geert Lovink, October 19, 2021

Doug Henwood @ The Gravel Institute: The Truth about Bitcoin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AAUrMuMPlo&t=9s David Golumbia: Cryptocurrency Is Garbage. So Is Blockchain. https://davidgolumbia.medium.com/cryptocurrency-is-garbage-so-is-blockchain-3e80078e77fe Universities Are Flunking Blockchain Tech by Quinn Dupont https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2021/10/06/universities-are-flunking-blockchain-tech/ Michael…

Katherine McKittrick: Black Method / Curiosity & Wonder (virtual lecture)

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Geert Lovink, October 18, 2021

https://perdu.nl/nl/r/black-method-curiosity-and-wonder/ Students of the Amsterdam Sandberg Instituut organize a lecture series and the first event is Thursday October 21, 2021 in Perdu, Kloveniersburgwal 86, Amsterdam, 8 pm: Reading and discussion…

European kind of waiting

In Living Industry, by Maisa Imamovic, October 16, 2021

The deadline for waiting is Hard to measure.    Official ends to waiting processes were invented by the ministry, I believe.   If there are any, Bureaucratic reasons to wait, …

Kampala Diary – Day 1

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Klara Debeljak, October 15, 2021

  3PM I arrive at the airport in Entebbe, Uganda. My cousin has been living with her partner in Kampala, the capital for the last three years. They both work…

A Collective Film Program about Work in the Gig Economy

In Our Creative Reset, by Sepp Eckenhaussen, October 13, 2021

What if 20 people create a 30-minute film program about 5 topics in 2 hours? During the Post-Precarity Autumn Camp, PLOKTA organized a collective film program to find out exactly…

Le Meme D’Auteur, Or: How We Learned To Stop Worrying and Love Original Content Memes

In Viral Image Culture, by Clusterduck, October 13, 2021

At the start of the third decade of the 21st century, while internet Memes certainly can’t be considered a cultural novelty anymore, their definition remains as elusive and difficult as…

Out Now: APRIA #3 – Urgent Publishing

In Making Public, by Miriam Rasch, October 12, 2021

Edited by Miriam Rasch and Nishant Shah. With contributions from Florian Cramer, Labor Neunzehn, Miriam Rasch and Paul Soulellis. Published by ArtEZ Press and APRIA: ArtEZ Platform for Research Interventions of…

Machine Dreams #1 | Cryptoeconomics and the Decolonization of Money

In MoneyLab, by Geert Lovink, October 11, 2021

Tuesday, 26 October 2021, 19.30 Uhr, diffrakt | centre for theoretical periphery Conversation with Jonathan Beller | Max Grünberg While for most critical observers cryptoeconomic protocols are but forms of…

Now You See Me: Visibility of the Lesbian Identity on TikTok

In INC Longform, by Dunja Nešović, October 8, 2021

In April 2020, I was in my second month of lockdown. The particular state of isolation I was in made my digital life more tangible, and my ‘real life’ intensively…

Interview: Making Sense of the High-Speed Society

In NO FUN, by Jess Henderson, October 7, 2021

Pausing for thought with Scott Wark and Tom Sutherland Hi Scott and Tom, Thanks for being up for a chat with INC. We met through your Pause for Thought (PfT)…

In MoneyLab, by Moneylab, October 4, 2021

Program of White Papers on Dissent: A Public Program on the Politics & Poetics of Blockchain October 22-24, 2021, Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven (NL) More information on the program plus…

POST-PRECARITY AUTUMN CAMP – DAY FIVE

In Our Creative Reset, by Dunja Nešović, October 1, 2021

The fifth and last day of Post-Precarity Autumn Camp served to recollect the knowledge of the previous four days and motivate participants to apply it to their strategies of durable…

POST-PRECARITY AUTUMN CAMP – DAY FOUR

In Our Creative Reset, by Dunja Nešović, September 30, 2021

During the fourth day of Post-Precarity Autumn Camp, the notions of dependency, wasted time, refusal, and selflessness in the artistic working life have been explored through the workshops prepared by…

POST-PRECARITY CAMP – DAY THREE

In Our Creative Reset, by Dunja Nešović, September 30, 2021

On the third day of the Post-Precarity Autumn Camp, the participants had the chance to get an insight into alternative financial pathways of the digital art world. Geert Lovink of…

Wojak’s Lament: Excess and Voyeurism under Platform Capitalism

In Viral Image Culture, by Anthony Glyn Burton, September 21, 2021

Those of us with faint memories of the early internet may remember it making a different appeal: nobody needed to know who you were if you didn’t want them to.…

Korean We Are Not Sick Video Lecture by Geert Lovink

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, September 20, 2021

http://whatdomuseumsconnect.kr/programs/1/sad-by-design-we-are-not-sick In this presentation, Geert Lovink discusses the dark side of the net. The mental state of internet users is tragic. Instead of empowerment and self-organization, what we mostly see…

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In D E S K T O P I A, by @lbert Figurt, September 13, 2021

Whenever a mobile device breaks by collision or crash (talking about accidental slips and drops here / not considering luddite i-conoclasty, sponsored resistance tests or bittersweet pranks), it usually feels…