Monthly Archives: November 2018

The Sad Fallacies of Redditor Rhetoric

By Sepp Eckenhaussen, November 29, 2018

On November 23rd 2018, Pim van den Berg published Execute Order 66: How Star Wars Memes Became Indebted to Fascist Dictatorship on the INC website. In line with The Case Against the Jedi Order, Pim’s text is critical of the politics of Star Wars meme culture. It was read about 3700 times and caused controversy on [...]

The Universe of [  ] Images Symposium 23 November

By Barbara Dubbeldam, November 28, 2018

“The long-held idea of images as proof of reality vanished. Washed away by manipulative practices of image production our hyper-visual media streams have become highly subjective and emotional. Authenticity claims to be the new challenge while power structures shift and users become creators.” On Friday 23 November, Hackers & Designers, together with Froh! organized a [...]

On the #MarielleMultiplica Action in Brazil

By Geert Lovink, November 20, 2018

By Isabel Löfgren (Stockholm) The October 2018 presidential elections in Brazil saw the rise of an extreme-right candidate due to several strategies, but there are equally many counter-movements that took place in the electoral period. One of these counter-movements is the action #MarielleMultiplica which went viral after a series of street protests for human rights, [...]

Data Production Labour – an Investigative Discussion with the Institute of Human Obsolescence

By Barbara Dubbeldam, November 15, 2018

On November 10 the Institute of Human Obsolescence (IoHO) founded by artist and activist Manuel Beltrán, organized a discussion in the context of the Data Production Labor series to investigate the hidden dynamics behind our data work. There were three installations on show that visualized data labor in different ways. IoHO is an artistic research [...]

INC herpubliceert De Muur (1984)–Interview met de schrijvers Jan de Graaf & Wim Nijenhuis

By Geert Lovink, November 15, 2018

Hierbij presenteert het Instituut voor netwerkcultuur met trots de herpublicatie van De Muur (Uitgeverij 010, 1984), geschreven door Donald van Dansik, Jan de Graaf en Wim Nijenhuis met foto’s van Piet Rook van de Berlijnse Muur. Hier vind je de pdf en hier de e-pub. Met dank aan Leonieke van Dipten (Shanghai) voor de productie. Inleiding [...]

Open Access Night at Kennisland

By Kelly Mostert, November 9, 2018

On November 2 Kennisland organised a networking event in their “Out of Office” format on open access. A screening of the documentary Paywall: The Business of Scholarship took place which focuses on the current state of Open Access publishing and showcases some fierce proponents of open publishing. One of the highlights in the documentary are [...]