Monthly Archives: November 2021

Raw Memory, Ephemerality of the Eternal in WhatsApp by Natalia Stanusch

By Geert Lovink, November 29, 2021

Hauntology of Metadata WhatsApp presents itself to us as a service that belongs to us. The sent images, the videos, the messages are encrypted for my privacy because they belong to me. But a single glitch can reveal the WhatsApp’s gaze lingering behind its interface. Instead of seeing WhatsApp, I can see WhatsApp-me, a single [...]

Visit the “House Peace” Art Show at Amsterdam Squat Hotel Mokum

By Geert Lovink, November 12, 2021

Update 2: On Saturday November 27, 2021 the Amsterdam riot police used violence to evict the Hotel Motel squat, after peaceful demonstration outside and a protest manifestation on Leidseplein the evening before. Politically responsible for this is the Green-Left local government and its major Halsema, who signed off on the eviction. Update 1: Excellent review [...]

Young Creatives Unite at Blend 2021

By Agnieszka Wodzińska, November 6, 2021

Illustrators, designers and other creatives gathered in a skatepark in Breda last month to learn from each other and discuss the realities of working in precarious conditions where disciplines merge, creativity flows, and we all negotiate ways to stay afloat – financially and emotionally. What came out of the two-day event? Gathering energy The spacious [...]

Abeba Birhane: The Impossibility of Automating Ambiguity (Sandberg Lecture)

By Geert Lovink, November 2, 2021

This is the second public lecture in the series by Recipes for a Technological Undoing, an extracurricular programme at the Sandberg Instituut. Abeda Birhane will share how systems of algorithmic classification, ordering, and prediction work to impose legibility on inherently complex, dynamic, and fluid aspects of human nature. Departing from embodied and enactive cognitive sciences, [...]