Institute of Network Cultures

Now that school’s out, and the Video Vortex Reader editing process is in full swing, Network Notebook #2 is being fine tuned, the new publication in the Studies in Network Cultures series is being written, and we’ve started the preparations for our next event (in March 09), it’s time to wish you all a wonderful summer.

Please check out our media archive for some nice summer reads. Most of our publications can be downloaded from the archive: the Incommunicado reader, C’lick Me reader, and the MyCreativity reader, for instance, are all freely available as downloadable PDFs.

Applicants for the internship: please feel free to contact Margreet with your questions and application letters. Email: margreet [at] networkcultures.org.

Naked Logic: Lecture of Boldizsár Hordós at Metaforum X, Budapest

By Geert Lovink, November 12, 2024

I am happy to teach computer history at a fine arts university. Besides, I also work with small kids. Part of my job is to pry phones out of their hands—not the most pleasant part of the day. This is partly because (as with every mandatory intervention) it stirs up more chaos than it prevents. [...]

Infrastructure that Sticks: Digital Affect Within Sovietcore

By Salome Berdzenishvili, November 4, 2024

Жить тяжело и неуютно Зато уютно умирать (Living is difficult and confining, But dying is liberating) The words written above are an excerpt from the song Sudno (Boris Ryzhy) by post-punk band Molchat Doma from Minsk. These words also often loop over the reels on post-Soviet aesthetics found online – the ones of decayed brutalist [...]

Ágnes Básthy: Crisis? What Crisis? Taking a Suspicious Walk around a Fashionable Notion

By Geert Lovink, October 31, 2024

(Text of the speech by Ágnes Básthy on the first day of Metaforum X, Budapest, October 25, 2024) “‘Krisis’ was originally a medical concept which designated, in the Hippocratic corpus of texts, the moment when the doctor decided whether the patient would be able to survive the disease. Theologians reprized the term to indicate the [...]