net critique blog by Geert Lovink
By Gianmarco Cristofari, December 4, 2025
(first, introduction posting of this series can be read here) I met Oscar D’Alva, a researcher at the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), at a bar in Botafogo during the pre-conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) that took place in Rio de Janeiro in mid-October 2025. Oscar’s PhD thesis, entitled “Estatísticas [...]
By INC Team, November 29, 2025
”Those who challenge the capitalist order tend to be publicly labelled as criminals generally falling into the terrorist category.” Steve Kurtz (World-InfoCon Brussels (2000): An Annotated Report) In memory of Steve Kurtz [1958-2025] Steve Kurtz was an American artist, professor and co-founder of the pioneering art collective Critical Art Ensemble (CAE). Formed in 1987, CAE [...]
By Klaudia Orczykowska, November 22, 2025
Theory on Demand #59 Paritance: A Philosophical Investigation Behind Cognition and Simulation By Henry Warwick This work advances the idea of Paritance—the acceptance of parity—as a fundamental operation of human cognition and culture. Warwick argues that the capacity to recognize a copy, model, or simulation as ontologically sufficient to its referent underlies cultural [...]
By Gianmarco Cristofari, November 19, 2025
I have always found it quite reasonable to think that the large-scale use of do-it-all machines produces collective value that deserves to be fairly distributed. In my cyborg anthropology, citizens, now emancipated thanks to the reprogrammable infrastructures that they always carry with them, are economically supported by the state to be able to contribute to [...]
By Eke Rebergen, November 19, 2025
There is something mesmerizing about the artworks currently exhibited at POST Arnhem. In the exhibition ‘Embodied Encryption’ you will find weirdly morphing videos of deepfake drag performances, abstract closeup visualizations of motherhood based on poetic scripts, and gender non-binary portraits generated from archive paintings of the Qajar dynasty. However, the exhibition in general does not [...]
By Peter Lunenfeld, November 17, 2025
Dear Geert— Greetings from a Los Angeles that while no longer reeling from assaults like the devastating fires, appalling abductions by masked federal agents, and occupying troops, cannot be described as having recovered from these past ten months. Instead, we are numbed and in remove. Southern California feels very far from Washington where the lords [...]
By Ruben Stoffelen, November 10, 2025
Over the past two decades, the bedroom has been culturally reconfigured and revitalized. As neoliberal-policy induced housing precarity has become ubiquitous, we now spend much more time living with roommates, or maybe even moving back into our parents’ place. We feel as though our agency and control are in constant flux, slowly slipping away from [...]
By Klaudia Orczykowska, October 29, 2025
I repeat this as a mantra while on the 51 train to my 9-to-5. Frosty af, but at least my shoes are cozy. I take this train like, 4 days a week, and they STILL haven’t fixed the escalator after 3 months. I’m hoping AI takes THAT job, not mine. Mind your steps, fr. It’s [...]
By Alessandro Sbordoni, October 29, 2025
“The youth of Morocco carries the message of a nation,” reads an open letter from the Gen Z 212 movement to King Mohammed VI of Morocco. “We call for the dissolution of the government for its failure to safeguard the constitutional rights of Moroccans.” The Gen Z 212 movement (after Morocco’s national dialing code, +212) [...]
By Tommaso Campagna, October 23, 2025
Due giornate di riflessione e confronto sull’artivismo contemporaneo
