Monthly Archives: May 2020

Pandemic and Subversion-Dialogue with Federico Zappino

By Geert Lovink, May 29, 2020

The Exception of the Minorities: Pandemic and Subversion A Dialogue with Federico Zappino by Lorenzo Petrachi Federico Zappino is philosopher, translator and queer activist. He translated into Italian work of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Judith Butler and Monique Wittig. Among his recent works are Il genere tra neoliberismo e neofondamentalismo (Gender Between Neoliberalism and Neofundamentalism, ed. [...]

Out Now: TOD#36 Listening into Others: An Ethnographic Exploration in Govindpuri

By Sepp Eckenhaussen, May 15, 2020

  By Tripta Chandola. The essays collected here are based on two decades of engagement with the residents of the slums of Govindpuri in India’s capital, Delhi. The book presents stories of many kinds, from speculative treatises, via the recollection of a thousand everyday conversations, to an account of the making of a radio documentary. [...]

Friction and the aesthetics of the smooth: Ethics in times of dataism

By Miriam Rasch, May 14, 2020

Read an excerpt in English from Frictie over at Eurozine: Seamless design is an important dogma of dataism. Without unpredictable behaviour, however, there’s no data to retrieve. A wholly predictable future is just a continuous present, a tyranny of choices on offer. But returning to our time-honoured language is similarly impossible. What we need is [...]

Hackers & Designers: OPEN CALL FOR DISTRIBUTED WORKSHOPS

By Geert Lovink, May 11, 2020

Throughout the years Hackers & Designers have been exploring and imagining different network concepts and networked practices in many ways. Looking back at some of our activities dealing with ‘Network Imaginaries’ we are getting very excited about the upcoming Summer Academy! Without rendering the current events as an opportunity we restructured our annual H&D Summer [...]

Out now: Frictie – Ethiek in tijden van dataïsme, Miriam Rasch

By Geert Lovink, May 11, 2020

Verschenen op 6 mei 2020 bij De Bezige Bij, Amsterdam, Frictie: Ethiek in tijden van dataïsme van Miriam Rasch, onderzoeker bij het Instituut voor Netwerkcultuur. Dataïsme is het geloof dat alles te vertalen is in data. Data leggen de wereld vast en maken haar beheersbaar. Maar voor wie en met welk doel? De onderliggende aannames [...]

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

By Donatella Della Ratta, May 8, 2020

Episode 1 with introduction: https://networkcultures.org/blog/2020/04/09/selfies-under-quarantine/ Italian translation: https://not.neroeditions.com/selfie-dalla-quarantena/. Episode 2: https://networkcultures.org/blog/2020/04/16/selfies-under-quarantine-episode-2/ Episode 3: https://networkcultures.org/blog/2020/04/23/selfies-under-quarantine-students-report-back-to-rome-episode-3/ Episode 4: https://networkcultures.org/blog/2020/05/01/selfies-under-quarantine-students-report-back-to-rome-episode-4/  Video Episode: https://networkcultures.org/blog/2020/06/27/video-episode/ Episode 5 (final episode): DIGITAL IS THE NEW ‘NORMAL’ In collaboration with Danielle, Shaina, Briana, Jackie, Marta, Gabriella, Sydney, Elena, Sophia and Natalia As this is the ending week of our semester, we go for lighter readings: Human Contact is Now a Luxury Good I just [...]

Coronavirus and Web 2.0: Philosophical Questions and Answers by Lorenza Saettone

By Geert Lovink, May 6, 2020

A new INC essay, Coronavirus and Web 2.0: Philosophical Questions and Answers by Lorenza Saettone, now available, in Italian, here as pdf and here as an e-pub file. Thanks a lot to Tommaso Campagna for the design and technical work. Italian philosopher Lorenza Saettone and I started corresponding at the end of my  ‘Sad by [...]

Selfies Under Quarantine: Students Report Back to Rome (Episode 4)

By Donatella Della Ratta, May 1, 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: https://networkcultures.org/blog/2020/04/23/selfies-under-quarantine-students-report-back-to-rome-episode-3/ Italian translation: https://not.neroeditions.com/selfie-dalla-quarantena/. Episode 4: LOVE (NOT) AT FIRST SIGHT In collaboration with Danielle, Shaina, Briana, Jackie, Marta, Gabriella, Sydney, Elena, Sophia and Natalia This week we read  excerpts from Eva Illouz’s Cold Intimacies. The Making of Emotional Capitalism and watched the video: ‘How Emotions Are Made’ ‘Thought that I was going crazy Just havin’ one those [...]