Pandemic and Subversion-Dialogue with Federico Zappino

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Geert Lovink, May 29, 2020

The Exception of the Minorities: Pandemic and Subversion A Dialogue with Federico Zappino by Lorenzo Petrachi Federico Zappino is philosopher, translator and queer activist. He translated into Italian work of…

Changes at INC, introducing ‘synthesis’, central INC email list

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Geert Lovink, May 22, 2020

While we’re publishing a lot, here at the Institute of Network Cultures, trying to facilitate critical reflection on the corona crisis with diaries and essays from around the world, we’re…

Here and Now? Explorations in Urgent Publishing

In Making Public, by Barbara Dubbeldam, May 20, 2020

Here and Now? Explorations in Urgent Publishing presents the results of the Making Public project, led by the Institute of Network Cultures in collaboration with 1001 Publishers, Amateur Cities, Amsterdam…

Urgent Publishing Toolkit

In Making Public, by Miriam Rasch, May 14, 2020

Find all the tools and methods that were developed during the Making Public project here: Urgent Publishing Toolkit Parazine is a tool that allows you to recontextualize existing academic content.…

The User Condition 06: How to Name Our Computer Monoculture?

In ENTREPRECARIAT, by Silvio Lorusso, May 13, 2020

A general question, to start with: What are today’s socio-technical conditions embedded in hardware and software that shape a computer user? There are various issues that make such question too…

Sad by Design Essay in Turkish & Interview with Red Thread

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, May 12, 2020

I am proud to announce that my Sad by Design essay has been translated into Turkish: http://red-thread.org/mutsuzlugu-tasariminda. It was published in the 5th issue of the Red Thread web magazine,…

The User Condition 05: On Movement and Relocation

In ENTREPRECARIAT, by Silvio Lorusso, May 11, 2020

In a previous post I stated that one of the features of interface industrialization (and therefore of user proletarianization) is “movement without relocation”. Here I’d like to characterize a bit better what…

The Puzzle of Post-Growth

In No Fun, by Ruth Les, May 8, 2020

Last week I received two emails, which felt like obtaining the two pieces missing from a 2000 piece puzzle sitting before you. The first was an issue of the bliss…

MoneyLab 8: streaming series 11 May – 29 June

In MoneyLab, by Inte Gloerich, May 6, 2020

Initially planned as an IRL conference, MoneyLab #8 has been reformulated as a series of weekly streaming events to be held every Monday at 5 PM CET. All information about…

Teen Tonality: A Letter From 1918

In No Fun, by Ruth Les, May 5, 2020

Imagine being a teenager nursing soldiers during the 1918 pandemic. It’s near impossible. Six months ago, such a task of the imagination would have been of no interest. Just as…