Monthly Archives: November 2020

Call for Proposals: INC Reader #15 – Critical Meme Research 

By Chloë Arkenbout, November 13, 2020

As they metastasized from the digital periphery to the mainstream, memes have seethed with mutant energy. From now on, any historical event will be haunted by its memetic double — just as any pandemic will have its own infodemic that will recursively act upon it — issuing in the kinds of cross-contamination that Baudrillard already [...]

OUT NOW: TOD#38 Satellite Lifelines by Isabel Löfgren

By Marijn Bril, November 12, 2020

My book Satellite Lifelines: Media, Art, Migration and the Crisis of Hospitality in Divided Cities just launched and can be found online (info below). Hospitality is central to the question of political frontiers where admittance and refusal across state borders may be a matter of life or death, and also touches on the fundamental ethical [...]

Out now: Internet, Mon Amour – Chronicles before yesterday’s collapse

By Chloë Arkenbout, November 9, 2020

‘The future was yesterday, when we were inseparable from computers and smartphones, for better or for worse. Even when we would have preferred to do without them, because we knew they could prove to be our worst enemies. The global surveillance scandals of the Internet were just the tip of a icebergs, mass manipulation was [...]

Designing the Politics of Public Data for Public Events: A Conversation with Designer & Programmer Joel Galvez

By Chloë Arkenbout, November 2, 2020

When web developer Joel Galvez quit Facebook, he realized he had no accessible overview of events anymore – ‘newsletters and Instagram are just not the same, they give glimpses, but they don’t tell you what you could do this Saturday’. That’s why he started his project Public Data for Public Events (publicdata.events), a simple, low-tech, FLOSS [...]