Written by: Gabriele Ferri and Inte Gloerich Ant 1: [Wiggles antennae, wiggles antennae, wiggles antennae.] I bring an interesting message to pass along. Ant 2: [Wiggles, wiggles.] I’m listening. Ant 1: This is something that I’m passing along on behalf of my other sisters in the colony, who received it from another anthill, which received […]
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The People are Not an Image: A Conversation on Vernacular Video [3/3]
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, living in COVID; living as we do in isolation; living in fear; living in America (as I do) where, thank goodness, we have a new […]
The People are Not an Image: A Conversation on Vernacular Video [2/3]
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 Peter, I really love the way you write about each of the distinct videos in your book The People Are Not an Image, your deep […]
YOU SAY I DO NOT EXIST: Theory of the Chrono-Ghettos
You are unable to comprehend me rationally, because you harbor deep emotions about me without even being aware of them. You are always a little afraid I will take things from you, and you believe I am the source of your suffering. You think above all that I expose your impermanence, which is the quintessential […]
Seven years since #GirlBoss. Where is she now?
Who remembers the first time they heard the term ‘Girl Boss?’ For most, it was around the time founder of the fashion brand Nasty Gal, Sophia Amoruso, published her autobiography ‘#GirlBoss’ in 2014. Since then, the term has grown in popularity to the extreme, creating its own aspirational ‘category’ of woman, archetypal image, and countless […]
Out now: Internet, Mon Amour – Chronicles before yesterday’s collapse
‘The future was yesterday, when we were inseparable from computers and smartphones, for better or for worse. Even when we would have preferred to do without them, because we knew they could prove to be our worst enemies. The global surveillance scandals of the Internet were just the tip of a icebergs, mass manipulation was […]
Architectural Filter Bubbles: On the Society for the Nonpreservation of Brutalism
What does it mean to infiltrate the other side of the argument? The Fetish for the Image and the Digital Ethnographer Coming from the field of design, my online feeds and timelines are flooded in aesthetics. Even after carefully picking accounts to follow and pages to like, the aestheticized image keeps on slipping […]
Selfies Under Quarantine: Students Report Back to Rome (Episode 4)
Episode 1 with introduction: https://networkcultures.org/blog/2020/04/09/selfies-under-quarantine/ Episode 2: https://networkcultures.org/blog/2020/04/16/selfies-under-quarantine-episode-2/ Episode 3: https://networkcultures.org/blog/2020/04/23/selfies-under-quarantine-students-report-back-to-rome-episode-3/ Italian translation: https://not.neroeditions.com/selfie-dalla-quarantena/. Episode 4: LOVE (NOT) AT FIRST SIGHT In collaboration with Danielle, Shaina, Briana, Jackie, Marta, Gabriella, Sydney, Elena, Sophia and Natalia This week we read excerpts from Eva Illouz’s Cold Intimacies. The Making of Emotional Capitalism and watched the video: ‘How Emotions Are Made’ ‘Thought that I was going crazy Just havin’ one those […]
Pit Schultz: Europe is not a Data Grossraum
Europe is Not a Data Grossraum by Pit Schultz (@pitsch) Apart from outdated spatial metaphors, the sectorization of data economies points to the risk of the emergence of monopoly platforms. There is a danger of “natural” sectorwize monopolies, which, thanks to telecommunication-driven 5G infrastructure (EdgeML, IoT), allows vertical integration and the centralization of value chains, […]
Wim Nijenhuis on Making: The Mystery of the Non-Finito
The Mystery of the Non-Finito, or Making Does Not Produce Artefacts by Wim Nijenhuis Text of the speech at the book launch of the INC Critical Makers Readers, Theatrum Anatomicum, Waag, Amsterdam, November 21, 2019 I will elaborate my thesis with a small consideration about the workshop Building Nests, which was led by the Dutch […]
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