net critique blog by Geert Lovink
By Miriam Rasch, February 11, 2020
Last month INC proudly published Sepp Eckenhaussen’s Scenes of Independence: Cultural Ruptures in Zagreb (1991-2019) as the third edition of the Deep Pockets series. It tells the story of ‘independent culture’ in Zagreb in a way that is both theoretical, practical, and personal. Below you can read an excerpt. To get a free download or [...]
By Geert Lovink, January 24, 2020
The Data Prevention Manifesto by the Plumbing Birds The privacy discourse sputtered out of steam. This has lead to the current stalemate: we know we’re observed, traced and tracked, but pretend it’s not happening or nothing to fret about. The question is not when the repressed will return but how? Hackers, have been proclaiming that privacy has been [...]
By Miriam Rasch, January 10, 2020
Last year Swedish magazine 10TAL published an essay of mine about data mining, the body, and self-knowledge. Now, the English translation has been published too! Read the opening below or click through to the whole text: My body, my traitor We’ve come a long way, baby. From »On the internet nobody knows you’re a [...]
By Inte Gloerich, January 9, 2020
Authors: Gabriele Ferri, Inte Gloerich “The Butler Timeline (BT) is a parallel universe where renowned speculative fiction author Octavia E. Butler engaged in a critical dialogue with researchers in human-computer interaction, shaping the genre of design fiction differently from how it unfolded in our timeline. Here we present a meta-speculation, imagining what could have been [...]
By Sepp Eckenhaussen, January 6, 2020
By Sepp Eckenhaussen. After the violent disintegration of Yugoslavia, a flourishing cultural scene was established in Croatia’s capital Zagreb. The scene calls itself: independent culture. In this book, Sepp Eckenhaussen explores the history of Zagreb’s independent culture through three questions: How were independent cultures born? To whom do they belong? And what is the [...]
By Sepp Eckenhaussen, December 20, 2019
TOD#32: Networked Content Analysis: The Case of Climate Change By Sabine Niederer With a foreword by Klaus Krippendorff Description: Climate change is one of the key societal challenges of our times, and its debate takes place across scientific disciplines and into the public realm, traversing platforms, sources, and fields of study. The analysis of [...]
By Miriam Rasch, December 13, 2019
>> English below Bijdrage aan de Spui25-bijeenkomst De roman en het geschreven woord in tijden van technologisering, ter gelegenheid van de verschijning van Maxim Februari’s laatste boek De onbetrouwbare verteller. (Meer van dit in mijn nieuwe boek Frictie: Ethiek in tijden van dataïsme, dat in mei 2020 verschijnt bij De Bezige Bij.) ‘See, in spite [...]
By Geert Lovink, November 27, 2019
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 [...]
By Geert Lovink, November 11, 2019
On 18 December 2019 Daniël de Zeeuw will defend his dissertation before a committee of learned colleagues at the University of Amsterdam. He happily invites all of you to attend the ceremony. Time: 11.45 Doors open (ceremony starts at 12.00 sharp), 13.00 Reception. Location: Agnietenkapel, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 229 – 231, 1012 EZ Amsterdam (NL). For [...]
By Valeria Pugliese, November 4, 2019
Out now: Theory On Demand #31- Media Do Not Exist INC is happy to announce the publication of Media Do Not Exist: Performativity and Mediating Conjunctures by Jean-Marc Larrue and Marcello Vitali-Rosati. You can download and read the book here: https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/tod31-media-do-not-exist/
