net critique blog by Geert Lovink
By Marijn Bril, October 27, 2020
What does it mean to infiltrate the other side of the argument? The Fetish for the Image and the Digital Ethnographer Coming from the field of design, my online feeds and timelines are flooded in aesthetics. Even after carefully picking accounts to follow and pages to like, the aestheticized image keeps on slipping [...]
By Geert Lovink, October 23, 2020
Hello world! My name is Karina Zavidova, I am a designer, an independent researcher and a migrant in the Netherlands. I am currently conducting a survey on the working conditions of non-EU citizens in the Dutch arts & culture sector. My definition of ‘cultural work’ in this survey is intentionally broad. I have been researching [...]
By Eleni Maragkou, October 22, 2020
“Baker’s first extensive translation to English provides us with a much-needed intervention for re-imagining social thought and visual media, at a time when sociology tends to be reduced to an analysis of ‘big data’, and the pedagogical powers of the image are reduced to data visualization and infographics.” From the book’s back cover. Ulus Baker [...]
By Chloë Arkenbout, October 8, 2020
Budapest University of Theatre and Film Arts students have not only occupied their university, they have now redesigned the university completely and started new ways of teaching with their ‘experimental teaching republic’. Earlier this October, nearly 100 students occupied their university after the right-wing national government of prime minister Viktor Orband transferred ownership of the [...]
By Geert Lovink, October 8, 2020
Contagion Design: Labour, Economy, Habits, Data International Symposium 22 October – 12 November, 2020 Hosted by Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/ics/events/contagion_design Organizers: Gay Hawkins and Ned Rossiter How is contagion designed? How do labour, migration, habits and data configure contagion? Across a program of four weeks of discussion and debate, this [...]
By Inte Gloerich, October 1, 2020
Our friends over at the Berliner Gazette are organizing a series of events called SILENT WORKS about hidden labor in AI-capitalism. In the lead up to the central conference and exhibition, they share the following update: Big tech is using the Covid-19 pandemic to take over Berlin. Amazon, for instance, one of the biggest profiteers [...]
By Tommaso Campagna, October 1, 2020
WRITTEN BY: Hoçâ Cové-Mbede The mandate of exclusive pay-wall access for scientific articles is nothing new inside research routines and academic cycles. This began after the influx of virtual repositories in the 90’s information-rerun era [1]. However, the debates on whether or not these contents should become part of the public domain in contemporary network [...]
By Jess Henderson, September 28, 2020
When did creative work become so boring? How did ‘digital-first’ come to dominate everything? …and why is nobody talking about it? Offline Matters is a handbook for anybody experiencing digital overload in their lives and creative work. Part insider exposé, part worker-manual, this book is for any creative seeking help on: Navigating the possibility of [...]
By Miriam Rasch, August 27, 2020
It is with joy that we present Let’s Get Physical: A Sample of INC Longforms, 2015-2020 (INC Reader #13), which gathers thirteen essays that have been published in our INC Longform series over the past years. The book is available for free as pdf and on paper, epub to follow soon. Below you can read [...]
By Geert Lovink, August 17, 2020
We know how it sounds when the voice of those who are absent animate their words as we read them, as if from the inside of the text. How long after a disappearance is a voice activated through a postcard, a note on a piece of paper or a book? I reach for Bernard Stiegler’s [...]
