net critique blog by Geert Lovink
By Geert Lovink, November 29, 2021
Hauntology of Metadata WhatsApp presents itself to us as a service that belongs to us. The sent images, the videos, the messages are encrypted for my privacy because they belong to me. But a single glitch can reveal the WhatsApp’s gaze lingering behind its interface. Instead of seeing WhatsApp, I can see WhatsApp-me, a single [...]
By Geert Lovink, November 12, 2021
Update 2: On Saturday November 27, 2021 the Amsterdam riot police used violence to evict the Hotel Motel squat, after peaceful demonstration outside and a protest manifestation on Leidseplein the evening before. Politically responsible for this is the Green-Left local government and its major Halsema, who signed off on the eviction. Update 1: Excellent review [...]
By Agnieszka Wodzińska, November 6, 2021
Illustrators, designers and other creatives gathered in a skatepark in Breda last month to learn from each other and discuss the realities of working in precarious conditions where disciplines merge, creativity flows, and we all negotiate ways to stay afloat – financially and emotionally. What came out of the two-day event? Gathering energy The spacious [...]
By Geert Lovink, November 2, 2021
This is the second public lecture in the series by Recipes for a Technological Undoing, an extracurricular programme at the Sandberg Instituut. Abeda Birhane will share how systems of algorithmic classification, ordering, and prediction work to impose legibility on inherently complex, dynamic, and fluid aspects of human nature. Departing from embodied and enactive cognitive sciences, [...]
By Tommaso Campagna, October 27, 2021
We are glad to announce the re-digitalization of the typo-film by Mieke Gerritzen “Beautiful World”. First published in 2006 this film traveled in DVD and fiscal booklet, after 15 years we decided it was time to preserve this masterpiece and re-publish it online. Beautiful World is a film about a feeling that prevails the world [...]
By Dunja Nešović, October 19, 2021
BLACK BOX EAST is the project of the Berliner Gazette that was oriented towards uncovering the latent material and ideological structures that keep the eastern, post-communist areas as the (exploited) “Other” years after the Cold War has ended. The name of the project reflects the processes of mystifying “the East” that in turn serve to [...]
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 of Dear Science and Other Stories by Katherine McKittrick. Part of the extracurricular course Recipes for a Technological Undoing offered to students at the Sandberg [...]
By Tommaso Campagna, 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 as economists for energy companies that offer rural people low-interest loans to purchase solar panels. I immediately notice that the air has a different smell [...]
By Chloë Arkenbout, October 12, 2021
The act of idolizing has long surpassed just hanging some posters on your bedroom wall. With the rise of the internet, and especially Web 2.0, fandom has extended onto our screens—allowing fans from all over the world to always be in touch with each other. When, during the Black Lives Matter protests last year, the [...]
By Geert Lovink, October 6, 2021
Ben je een jonge onderzoeker en/of producer op het gebied van digitale cultuur en experimenteel uitgeverschap? Heb je een kritische houding en affiniteit met educatie en kennisoverdracht? Ben je gemotiveerd om praktische en productionele taken uit te voeren voor de ontwikkeling van onze website, maar ook nieuwe initiatieven te ontwikkelen en een gezamenlijke visie op [...]
