Monthly Archives: August 2020

INC Longform Reader – Introduction: Celebrating Five Years of Online Tech Critique

By Miriam Rasch, August 27, 2020

It is with joy that we present Let’s Get Physical: A Sample of INC Longforms, 2015-2020 (INC Reader #13), which gathers thirteen essays that have been published in our INC Longform series over the past years. The book is available for free as pdf and on paper, epub to follow soon. Below you can read [...]

Axel Andersson: To Inherit Thinking-Bernard Stiegler In Memoriam

By Geert Lovink, August 17, 2020

We know how it sounds when the voice of those who are absent animate their words as we read them, as if from the inside of the text. How long after a disappearance is a voice activated through a postcard, a note on a piece of paper or a book? I reach for Bernard Stiegler’s [...]

Podcast: Why data won’t redeem us

By Miriam Rasch, August 17, 2020

This summer Eurozine launched their podcast titled Gagarin. I was invited to join Réka Kinga Papp, editor-in-chief- of Eurozine, to talk about my book Frictie and the accompanying Eurozine essay Friction and the aesthetics of the smooth. Listen to the episode over at Eurozine or find it in your podcast app. “What does the worship [...]

Patrick Lichty: Zoom Burnout, Teletopics and the Age of Covid

By Geert Lovink, August 11, 2020

Agony and the Ecstasy: Zoom Burnout, Teletopics and the Age of Covid by Patrick Lichty The era of Covid lockdown is Zoom-time. Although at the time of this writing, the crest of the first wave is starting to pass, its impact is evident. In over three months of lockdown, stay at home, 24/7 Zoom culture [...]