Dividual Privacy in the Era of Algorithmic Profiling

In Algorithmic Anxiety , by Patricia, September 22, 2020

This review was first published in the journal Global Media and Communication. You can find it here. Review: John Cheney-Lippold, We Are Data: Algorithms and the Making of Our Digital Selves, New…

The City Yet to Come: Transindividuation and Becoming in Future Queer Space

In INC Longform, by Annie Howard, September 14, 2020

In ‘The Metropolis and Mental Life,’ Georg Simmel gives a thorough account of the peculiar circumstances that city residents experience in daily life. Particularly in his call to investigate the…

We Are Not Sick’s Theory-Music Album Sad by Design

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, September 13, 2020

On Saturday night September 12, 2020, John Longwalker and Geert Lovink ('We Are Not Sick') launched their theory-music album Sad by Design in OT 301 in Amsterdam (info on the…

A Conversation with Geert Lovink by Tommaso Campagna

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, September 11, 2020

A Conversation with Geert Lovink by Tommaso Campagna (This interview was conducted on June 25, 2020 in the HvA main building as part of the intern report for the research…

MoneyLab #9 Helsinki (19-20.9.2020) program now online

In MoneyLab, by Geert Lovink, September 11, 2020

MONEYLAB #9 HELSINKI Playgrounds for Post-Capitalism 19.-20.9.2020 Oodi & Online For more up-to-date information: moneylab9.m-cult.org/. This will also be the landing page where you will find the links to the…

Sixty Minutes Back to the Future: The Pleasure of Friction

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Miriam Rasch, September 3, 2020

When: September 24, 2020 20:00 - 21:00

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First Announcement of MoneyLab #X Economythologies (Australia)

In MoneyLab, by Geert Lovink, September 2, 2020

MoneyLab #X Economythologies Critical thinking, making and trading for the 'New World Disorder' Canberra/Hobart, November 5-6, 2020 "Myth is very precisely the incantation that gives rise to a world..." - Jean-Luc…

INC Longform Reader – Introduction: Celebrating Five Years of Online Tech Critique

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Miriam Rasch, August 27, 2020

It is with joy that we present Let’s Get Physical: A Sample of INC Longforms, 2015-2020 (INC Reader #13), which gathers thirteen essays that have been published in our INC…

A distributed MoneyLab

In MoneyLab, by Inte Gloerich, August 21, 2020

The Institute of Network Cultures has coordinated the MoneyLab project for seven year. With every instance (conferences, books, etc), a core team came together to define urgent topics, select cutting…

Axel Andersson: To Inherit Thinking-Bernard Stiegler In Memoriam

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Geert Lovink, August 17, 2020

We know how it sounds when the voice of those who are absent animate their words as we read them, as if from the inside of the text. How long…

Podcast: Why data won’t redeem us

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Miriam Rasch, August 17, 2020

This summer Eurozine launched their podcast titled Gagarin. I was invited to join Réka Kinga Papp, editor-in-chief- of Eurozine, to talk about my book Frictie and the accompanying Eurozine essay…

To Be Continued… An Interview on Seriality (Part II)

In No Fun, by Jess Henderson, August 13, 2020

This is the second part of an interview on serial media with Ryan Engley, Professor of Media Studies at Pomona College and one-half of the ‘Why Theory’ podcast. In Part…

Yuk Hui: In Memory of Bernard Stiegler

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, August 9, 2020

In Memory of Bernard How could I believe that Bernard has already left us? It is true that Bernard has left, but I don’t believe and will not believe. Since…

To Be Continued… An Interview on Seriality (Part I)

In No Fun, by Jess Henderson, August 6, 2020

With Ryan Engley. Professor of Media Studies at Pomona College, and one-half of the ‘Why Theory’ podcast. To listen to the Why Theory podcast is to sit in a room…

Delete Your Profile, Not People, Comment on Cancel Culture

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, August 5, 2020

by Geert Lovink (official version first published on Eurozine, August 5, 2020) “The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he’s in…

ML#8: Conference report & documentation now available!

In MoneyLab, by Inte Gloerich, July 20, 2020

Download the CONFERENCE REPORT or go to the documentation of the individual streams below: Stream #1: Critical Finance Strategies: Three Months into the Corona Crisis video | further reading article…

COVID-19 Diary: Not Working

In No Fun, by Jess Henderson, July 6, 2020

This edition of my COVID-19 Diaries features a two-part anecdotal poem on 'not working', combining fragments of conversations and dialogues collected over the past three weeks.   1st July 2020…

The Critic-lobbyist (When All Culture Has Become Kulturkritik)

In The Art of Criticism, by Axel Andersson And Miriam Rasch, 06/07/2020

Image by Stjepan Zlodi from Pixabay This is a guest post by Axel Andersson, editor-in-chief of Kritiklabbet in Sweden. The etymological link between criticism and crisis (via the Greek krinein)…

‘Counter speed with a blossoming of un-immediacy’: interview on Urgent Publishing

In Making Public, by Miriam Rasch, June 25, 2020

For their upcoming podcast series where researchers in the ARIAS network talk about their projects, Morgane Billuart and Katie Clarke asked me to introduce Making Public and the urgent publishing…

The Speculative Design of Immaculate Motherhood

In Algorithmic Anxiety , by Patricia, June 24, 2020

This article was first published by DigiCult by Patricia de Vries In the next five years, the artificial womb will become a medical reality. Ectogenesis, outside-the-womb gestation, is increasingly viable…