net critique blog by Geert Lovink
By Giulia Timis, November 30, 2023
The Hmm Hotline is here! Get all your burning questions on AI answered @ PickUp Club in Amsterdam, December 6, 8 PM CET! What data is being used to train ChatGPT? Is AI really coming for your job? And how does DALL·E know how to paint? As waves of developments in artificial intelligence keep washing [...]
By Ruben Stoffelen, November 24, 2023
As I gaze out of my window, I am met with a totem. This totem is gray and windowless, nestled in between offices and academic buildings. Behind it is a park, and the longer I stare, the deeper it becomes embedded in the natural landscape, after a bit I forget it’s there. But in the [...]
By Klara Debeljak, November 20, 2023
During IMPAKT festival 2023 lawyer Jan Fermon and artist Jonas Staal presented their collective action lawsuit Collectivize Facebook. The lawsuit aims to force legal recognition of Facebook as a public domain, owned and controlled by its users. During their panel talk they were asked the following question; »Do your Facebook posts providing updates on the [...]
By Gianmarco Cristofari, November 16, 2023
Tech Won’t Save Us – Organize! Simone Robutti has been working as a programmer for the last ten years. One day he started to become interested both in the theory of techno politics and the practice of tech worker organization. In fact, his trajectory is kind of similar to mine – a repentant lawyer who [...]
By Geert Lovink, November 10, 2023
Established in 2000, the Sarai media programme of CSDS in Delhi has been a critical space in the Global South for work on media culture and cultural theory. Sarai was the first space to examine internet culture in the Global South. This is a call for abstracts for a workshop in Delhi, in March 2024. [...]
By Klara Debeljak, November 6, 2023
A famous inscription above the temple of Apollo in Delphi reads: “Know thyself, you, that walks down this hallway.” It implies responsibility and the weight of agency. And that’s the thing: I always felt responsible for my actions, opinions and tastes. It is what I was always taught, probably because it encouraged a more ethical [...]
By Arianna Caserta, November 4, 2023
In an ocean of perfectly constructed auto narrations, users draft an ode to the ” non-readable” in search of the only method to reappropriate the entropic and spectral side of the Internet. I remember scrolling through Yung Lean‘s Instagram profile meant trying to decode the rules of a universe nobody knew anything about. Pages full of [...]
By Geert Lovink, October 16, 2023
We, Krisis Publishing, an independent publishing and curatorial platform, based in Brescia, Italy, are proud to introduce our new publication Black Box Cartography. A Critical Cartography of the Internet and Beyond by Vladan Joler. With texts and contributions by Vladan Joler, Kate Crawford, Matteo Pasquinelli, Daphne Dragona and SHARE Lab. The book will be published [...]
Download the pdf of the book here: https://shop.meatspacepress.com/products/eaten-by-the-internet-digital-download-ebook-and-pdf Eaten by the Internet: Power and the Future of the Digital Society, edited by Corinne Cath, published by Meatspace Press, online, 2023. Our world is eaten by the Internet. This means that those who control the Internet control the bounds of public speech, economic production, social cohesion, [...]
By Geert Lovink, October 11, 2023
Program: https://impakt.nl/festival/2023/programme/ On Wednesday 1 November, activist and former U.S. Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning will be present in Utrecht to participate in the opening of the IMPAKT Festival 2023: Our Terms, Our Conditions.Chelsea E. Manning is a technologist and network security expert, analyst, and consultant whose actions showed the world that the conscience of [...]
