net critique blog by Geert Lovink
By Júlia Serra, October 5, 2026
It’s been a long time since images stopped being sacred. They are simply one of the millions of scraps in which I melt. I am everywhere and everything that can be. And yet I am in a place: this sort of cage called identity, built of fake nostalgia and estrangement from myself. And if I [...]
By Morgane Billuart, September 30, 2026
Metrons and Logons brings together Matthew’s recent series of photographic works with display structures made by eva duerden. The images move between recognisable objects and architecturally processed surfaces, reminding us of objects we used to consider technical, while acknowledging their obsolescence. The longer one looks, the less clear that designation of time becomes. The result [...]
By Gianmarco Cristofari, September 20, 2026
The introduction of Digital Tribulations, a series of intellectual interviews on the developments of digital sovereignty in Latin America, can be read here and the entire series can be found here. During the month I spent in Buenos Aires, the last city I visited before finally flying back to Europe, I managed to get a [...]
By Emanuele Braga, September 16, 2026
We have drafted a proposal: can the European Commission protect Autistici/Inventati from the effects of the sanctions imposed by the Trump administration? We have spoken with lawyers, involved several Members of Parliament, and we know that there is a legal avenue to protect European citizens, organisations and banks from the extraterritorial effects of these sanctions. [...]
By Gianmarco Cristofari, September 9, 2026
The introduction of Digital Tribulations, a series of intellectual interviews on the developments of digital sovereignty in Latin America, can be read here and the entire series can be found here. I met Juan Martín Graña, a CONICET researcher, one morning in early April in Buenos Aires, at a café called Aromi, near Parque Centenario, [...]
By Michael Dieter, August 3, 2026
Speech at INC Exit Fest, OT 301, Amsterdam, 25th June, 2026. Online video has become the general condition of social media, a streaming vortex driven by extractivism and behavioural targeting. Reflecting on my experience as a member of CDI-TV,[1] a collective contributing to StreamArtNetwork (SAN), I want to consider this condition from a specific angle, [...]
By Gianmarco Cristofari, August 2, 2026
The introduction of Digital Tribulations, a series of intellectual interviews on the developments of digital sovereignty in Latin America, can be read here. The entire series can be found here. Esteban from the AGC (Asociación Gremial de Computación) — Argentina’s tech worker union — invited me to the first meeting of the informatical workers of [...]
By INC Team, July 29, 2026
The Institute of Network Cultures is proud to present the first publication of its last intern at HvA, Noah Pellikaan, produced at INC in the first half of 2026: Art, Activism, Academia: Changemaking in Contemporary Amsterdam is a collected, fragmentary volume speaking on left-wing social movements in Amsterdam’s artistic and academic spheres, with an emphasis [...]
By Ned Rossiter, July 25, 2026
(expanded version of talk given at the opening evening of INC Exit Fest at UvA Spui25 in Amsterdam, June 22, 2026) Tonight, I would like to cast the idea of flat world theory to you and introduce the concept of the logistical episteme. Flat world theory – this is not to be confused with the [...]
By Rosa Menkman, July 24, 2026
Proceedings from my presentation during EXIT FEST on the 24th of June 2026, in celebration of Geert Lovink and the Institute of Network Cultures’ departure from the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (HvA) on September 1, 2026. The Digital Image is Non-Static While we usually think of images as static objects, they are in fact [...]
