net critique blog by Geert Lovink
By Gianmarco Cristofari, June 12, 2026
The introduction of Digital Tribulations, a series of intellectual interviews on the developments of digital sovereignty in Latin America, can be read here. For the last interview in Mexico, we dive into the more institutional perspective with the work, value and activities of the newly created Agency for Public Innovation of Mexico City. After attending [...]
By Sepp Eckenhaussen, June 10, 2026
Introducing the Duckrabbit w/ Anielek Niemyjski, A | RSS.com Duckrabbits Talk Back is a podcast about postartistic antifascism. It gathers thinkers, activists, artists, and postartists to discuss the global rise of fascism, ask questions together, and formulate possible responses. Duckrabbits — those wonderfully ambivalent creatures that can be seen as ducks or rabbits, or both [...]
By Sepp Eckenhaussen, June 5, 2026
Duckrabbits Talk Back | RSS.com Duckrabbits Talk Back gathers thinkers, activists, artists, and postartists to discuss the global rise of fascism, ask questions together, and formulate possible responses. Duckrabbits — those wonderfully ambivalent creatures that can be seen as ducks or rabbits, or both at once — guide us through the tangled web of contemporary [...]
By Gianmarco Cristofari, May 27, 2026
Interview with Colectivo Promedio The introduction of Digital Tribulations, a series of intellectual interviews on the developments of digital soveregnty in Latin America, can be read here. I arrived in San Cristóbal de las Casas on a cold morning, after an uncomfortable overnight bus from Puerto Escondido. The city sits at 2,200 metres in a [...]
By Sepp Eckenhaussen, May 19, 2026
transmediale 2027 invites applications for the Lattice Labs, a series of experimental working groups dedicated to rethinking and testing alternatives to technological monocultures of extraction and surveillance. Building towards the festival, the Lattice Labs introduce a process-based approach to collective learning and knowledge dissemination. Each Lab is formed by about five participants and guided by [...]
By Gianmarco Cristofari, May 17, 2026
Interview with the Medilabmx. The introduction of Digital Tribulations, a series of intellectual interviews on the developments of digital sovereignty in Latin America, can be read here. As I arrived in Mexico for a job interview, I took the opportunity to visit the Medialabmx, a space of technological resistance and experimentation in Mexico City. Located [...]
By Helena Łomnicka, May 15, 2026
There’s a moment in Buffy the Vampire Slayer when Buffy — the girl chosen in her generation to protect the world from evil — finally grows up. Let’s not spoil what might be one of the best-made episodes of the series, an hour of TV saturated with aching despair. Bills start piling up, money becomes short and [...]
By Chloë Arkenbout, May 12, 2026
(Dutch below) From September on INC will be an autonomous entity, leaving the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences behind. This phase will present us with both challenges and exciting new opportunities. As INC will become an association with members, we are currently looking for 3 board members. The board will meet about 4 times a [...]
By Geert Lovink, May 12, 2026
Max, a young and ambitious researcher, travels to Svalbard, Norway, to speak at a conference on the ethics of mind enhancement. There, she discovers a high-tech experimental building powered by “Dual Resolve,” a system that harvests human body heat. As the conference unfolds, the warmth of bodies and the pressure of ideas begin to blur, [...]
By Xiaoqian (Chelsea) Zhong, May 11, 2026
In Art and the After-Culture, Ben Davis suggests that visual art in the age of the after-culture is increasingly diverging into three distinct tendencies.[1] Following his line of thought, I have tried to identify three corresponding artistic cases that resonate with these categories. Before rushing to define it, it might be more meaningful to first [...]
