Monthly Archives: April 2020

Selfies Under Quarantine: Students Report Back to Rome (Episode 3)

By Donatella Della Ratta, April 23, 2020

Episode 1 with introduction: https://networkcultures.org/blog/2020/04/09/selfies-under-quarantine/ Episode 2: https://networkcultures.org/blog/2020/04/16/selfies-under-quarantine-episode-2/ Episode 3: LOVE AND SEX IN TIMES OF COVID-19 In collaboration with Danielle, Shaina, Briana, Jackie, Marta, Gabriella, Sydney, Elena, Sophia and Natalia This week’s readings: Excerpts from Eva Illouz’s Cold Intimacies. The Making of Emotional Capitalism and excerpts from Melissa Broder’s So Sad Today Day 44 since the lockdown started in Italy. My Facebook wall is populated [...]

Selfies Under Quarantine: Student Report Back to Rome (Episode 2)

By Donatella Della Ratta, April 16, 2020

‘We wait. We are bored. No, don’t protest, we are bored to death, there’s no denying it. Good. A diversion comes along and what do we do? We let it go to waste.’

Dispatches from the Quarantine 05: Salvatore Iaconesi

By Silvio Lorusso, April 15, 2020

A dispatch from Salvatore Iaconesi, artist and technologist based in Rome [This dispatch, originally published in Italian on the newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore, is part of a series. Read the previous ones here.] We are fragile. Of so many different frailties. The state of quarantine makes us touch the borders of these fragility: economic, [...]

Dispatches from the Quarantine 04: Lídia Pereira

By Silvio Lorusso, April 14, 2020

A dispatch from Lídia Pereira, Portuguese writer and designer based in Rotterdam [This dispatch is part of a series: read the previous ones here.] “I am thinking of all the things that I cannot think about because I cannot feel them because I cannot live them because I live here I am here and despite everything [...]

Dispatches from the Quarantine 03: Alex Foti

By Silvio Lorusso, April 13, 2020

A dispatch from Alex Foti, writer and activist based in Milan [This dispatch is part of a series: read the previous ones here.] Nothing can never be the same. Nothing must never be the same. While the former is often repeated by pundits in these weeks of house arrest, the latter really is the assumption that [...]

Dispatches from the Quarantine 02: Alina Lupu

By Silvio Lorusso, April 13, 2020

Dispatch from Alina Lupu, Romanian Artist Based in Amsterdam [This dispatch is part of a series: read the previous one here.] As a generally resistant person, tending to be first and foremost critical of every situation as well as hard to engage in the first stage, I find it fascinating that this reorientation towards online [...]

Dispatches from the Quarantine 01: Silvio Lorusso and Geert Lovink

By Silvio Lorusso, April 13, 2020

by Silvio Lorusso and Geert Lovink During these long days, thinking is hard. Coronavirus updates come from every milieu: friends, family, work, governments, finance, the economy at large. None of them can be ignored. Remember, we used to complain about information overload. What about now? Now that we’re uninterruptedly tuned to different sources, from apps, [...]

Selfies Under Quarantine: Students Report Back to Rome

By Donatella Della Ratta, April 9, 2020

On March 5, 2020, the Italian government ordered a lockdown for all schools. A few days later, now a month ago (feels like ages), on March 9, all Italian cities, and all of us, human beings, were placed on a strict lockdown due to the coronavirus crisis. No more going out, no more walking, no [...]

Out now: TOD#35 The Arab Archive: Mediated Memories and Digital Flows

By Barbara Dubbeldam, April 3, 2020

INC is proud to announce the publication of The Arab Archive, edited by Donatella Della Ratta, Kay Dickinson, and Sune Haugbolle. As the revolutions across the Arab world that came to a head in 2011 devolved into civil war and military coup, representation and history acquired a renewed and contested urgency. The capacities of the [...]