Micro Book Fair ✨ INC Expanded Publishing Fest (12 January @OT301)

By Sepp Eckenhaussen, December 21, 2023

On the evening of 12 January, INC is organizing a Micro Book Fair as part of the Expanded Publishing Fest at OT301. In this post, we introduce you to the concept of the fair and the work of each participating publisher. Time: 19:00-21:30 (followed by a club night until 03:00) Publishers: HumDrumPress, Outline, Platform BK, [...]

Afterword of Semiotics of the End: New Beginnings

By Matt Bluemink, December 21, 2023

This is the afterword for Network Notion #1: Semiotics of the End by Alessandro Sbordoni. ‘In a way, we must start at the end.’ Deleuze and Guattari[1] This statement from Deleuze and Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus brings us to a strange conclusion. If we are to start at the end, which way should [...]

OUT NOW – Network Notion #1: Semiotics of the End by Alessandro Sbordoni

By Chloë Arkenbout, December 21, 2023

The Institute of Network Cultures is Proud to Present its New Publication Series: Network Notion #1 Semiotics of the End: On Capitalism and the Apocalypse By Alessandro Sbordoni The end of the world is just another sign of semiocapitalism. Semiotics of the End is a collection of thirteen essays about the end of the world [...]

OUT NOW TOD#50 Resisting Data Colonialism by Tierra Común Network

By Agnieszka Antkowiak, December 19, 2023

Theory on Demand #50 RESISTING DATA COLONIALISM – A PRACTICAL INTERVENTION Members and allies of the Tierra Común Network Some people think that colonialism is long over, while others are sure it has never stopped. This book explores a third possibility: not only is colonialism still continuing, but right now it is morphing into possibly [...]

On Indisciplinary Technical Practice or How to Do Research on AI Without Doing Research on AI

By Jordi Viader Guerrero, December 12, 2023

Reflections on the Second Iteration of the Moments of Reading Workshop Invited by Daniel Leix Palumbo, fellow PhD researcher in this messy field we call AI, and Dr. Matt Coler, the second iteration of the Moments of Reading workshop took place on October 24, 2023 (thanks a lot to both and all the students who [...]

PublishingLab Website Restored and Made Available Again

By Geert Lovink, December 12, 2023

INC is proud to announce the conservation of the website of the PublishingLab (past URL: www.publishinglab.nl), which is now available again here: 🔗 networkcultures.org/publishing-lab/🔗 The PublishingLab ran for over three years (2014-2017), in parallel but connected to the Institute of Network Cultures and had its own website and domain name. After the project closed, faculty [...]

Reckless Endeavours, Ethics, and Memes — Reflections on the Fraught Side of Raving

By Eleni Maragkou, December 7, 2023

At its core, raving has existed in opposition to normativity, and so has electronic music. If newcomers enticed by hard trance remixes of 2000’s Top 40 hits embrace this opposition, it is often done in ways removed from history. As Loren Granic AKA Goddollars, co-founder and resident of A Club Called Rhonda in Los Angeles, stated: [...]