Monthly Archives: January 2020

The Data Prevention Manifesto by the Plumbing Birds


By Geert Lovink, January 24, 2020

The Data Prevention Manifesto by the Plumbing Birds The privacy discourse sputtered out of steam. This has lead to the current stalemate: we know we’re observed, traced and tracked, but pretend it’s not happening or nothing to fret about. The question is not when the repressed will return but how? Hackers, have been proclaiming that privacy has been [...]

My body, my traitor: essay in 10TAL

By Miriam Rasch, January 10, 2020

Last year Swedish magazine 10TAL published an essay of mine about data mining, the body, and self-knowledge. Now, the English translation has been published too! Read the opening below or click through to the whole text: My body, my traitor   We’ve come a long way, baby. From »On the internet nobody knows you’re a [...]

Column – Take root among the stars: If Octavia Butler wrote design fiction

By Inte Gloerich, January 9, 2020

Authors: Gabriele Ferri, Inte Gloerich “The Butler Timeline (BT) is a parallel universe where renowned speculative fiction author Octavia E. Butler engaged in a critical dialogue with researchers in human-computer interaction, shaping the genre of design fiction differently from how it unfolded in our timeline. Here we present a meta-speculation, imagining what could have been [...]

Out Now: Deep Pockets #3 Scenes of Independence: Cultural Ruptures in Zagreb (1991-2019)

By Sepp Eckenhaussen, January 6, 2020

  By Sepp Eckenhaussen. After the violent disintegration of Yugoslavia, a flourishing cultural scene was established in Croatia’s capital Zagreb. The scene calls itself: independent culture. In this book, Sepp Eckenhaussen explores the history of Zagreb’s independent culture through three questions: How were independent cultures born? To whom do they belong? And what is the [...]