Monthly Archives: March 2020

Letizia Chiappini: Why I feel unsafe and stay in the Netherlands

By Geert Lovink, March 25, 2020

It’s early morning and the Italian news is dramatic. The Corona virus hits Northern Italy with a magnitude comparable to China. My mother and my grandmother are there, alone. Confined at home, scared and victims of a wretched television that shows sensationalist news about Corona-virus. Numbers are growing at a rapid pace. Young individuals are [...]

Launch of LAVA, Letters from the Volcano-Issue #1: Be Water

By Geert Lovink, March 25, 2020

Letters from the Volcano is an experimental zine conceived by Franco “Bifo” Berardi and developed by Mitra Azar, Hugo Sir, and a small group of agitators from the four corners of the world. LAVA emerged from a desire to understand the recent wave of social movements starting in autumn of 2019. These movements involved a [...]

Cultural Workers Shouldn’t Pay for the COVID-19 Pandemic in NL

By admin, March 14, 2020

We are reposting this anonymous open letter meant to address Dutch cultural organisations, institutions of education and research, and government bodies. Its goal is to raise concerns regarding freelance and remote work during the COVID-19 emergency. Feel free to circulate, appropriate and adapt this text. Here’s the source: https://cryptpad.fr/pad/#/2/pad/view/N+YV5BXQdELU0Z2RZLIuwLkH3My2GNNk9SsdwJ51Gd0/ We are freelancers working in schools, [...]

Listen now: Zine renaissance and hyperlocal news – Eurozine podcast

By Miriam Rasch, March 13, 2020

Listen to “Eurozine Podcast Part II: Local journalism in the digital age” on Spreaker. Globalization was supposed to connect people, but instead ended up connecting the powerful. Local news is rapidly disappearing and leaving crucial stories unreported, communities unrepresented and disconnected, a side-effect of digitalization and the ownership concentration in media markets. But local and [...]

Out Now: ToD#34 The Age of Total Images: Disappearance of a Subjective Viewpoint in Post-digital Photography

By Sepp Eckenhaussen, March 9, 2020

In The Age of Total Images, art historian Ana Peraica focuses on the belief that the shape of the planet is two-dimensional which has been reawakened in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, and the ways in which these ‘flat Earth’ conspiracy theories are symptomatic of post-digital image culture. Such theories, proven to be [...]