Ágnes Básthy: Crisis? What Crisis? Taking a Suspicious Walk around a Fashionable Notion

By Geert Lovink, October 31, 2024

(Text of the speech by Ágnes Básthy on the first day of Metaforum X, Budapest, October 25, 2024) “‘Krisis’ was originally a medical concept which designated, in the Hippocratic corpus of texts, the moment when the doctor decided whether the patient would be able to survive the disease. Theologians reprized the term to indicate the [...]

THE VOID T.V. #2 Girl Theory – Stream Archive

By T.V. Team, October 29, 2024

Last week to send in proposals! | Tactical Media Reader: Common Tools for Common Struggles

By Tommaso Campagna, October 28, 2024

Introduction to MetaForumX in Budapest

By Flóra Barkóczi, October 26, 2024

Welcome to MetaForum X, the fourth edition of the MetaForum conference series, taking place in Budapest, Hungary, from October 24-26, 2024. Although this event is not about nostalgia, it is impossible not to reflect on the legacy of the historical MetaForum series. The first three editions between 1994 and 1996, emerged at a time of [...]

Engineering Empathy – A Conversation with Isaka on Transforming Noise into Understanding

By Pure Anna, October 15, 2024

This text is a love letter to Isa, to hyperbass, to XF, to the demoscene, and a reminder that life, in all its complex and technologically mediated glory, is a canvas for radical self-creation and empathy. Isaka Links: Soundcloud Bandcamp Symbios.wiki Instagram Her new EP Elytra drops October 18th on SFX I first encountered Isaka’s [...]

Full Program of Metaforum X – Permacrises, October 24-26, 2024, Budapest

By Geert Lovink, October 14, 2024

Editorial Team: Flóra Barkóczi, Geert Lovink, Áron Lődi, Diana McCarty, Zsolt Miklósvölgyi and János Sugár Download conference program booklet here: Metaforum_Handout_Full_2024 Embracing the legacy of the three MetaForum conferences (1994-96), MFX continues to highlight the urgent issues of the times with a reflection on contemporary crisis surfing. The theme of PermaCrises examines the persistent breakdown [...]

Sign the BAN X in EUROPE Petition and Join the Campaign

By admin, October 12, 2024

Europeans must unite against Elon Musk’s influence. If you are in the EU or a supporter of its values, we urge you to sign this petition to ban his platform X. Please sign the petition on change.org here. Your name and data will not be published. More info and updates on the campaign website. The [...]

On Artificial Stupidity and Evil Resistance

By Eke Rebergen, October 12, 2024

By now, everyone knows that the normally smooth functioning world of information and communication is not to be trusted or taken for granted. Designers and researchers devise methods, protocols, checks and regulations to somehow ward off the inherent possibility of technology-enhanced evil. An entire industry of design ethics and (digital) security has emerged that not [...]

Full Program of Platform Blues  – Conference at University of Canberra, November 21, 2024

By Geert Lovink, October 10, 2024

Location: Building 1, Level A, Room 21 (Theatre), Bruce (ACT), Australia More information: https://networkcultures.org/events/platform-blues-one-day-conference-at-university-of-canberra/ Free entrance but please register here: https://events.humanitix.com/platform-blues Opening: 10:00 – 10:15am Welcome – Geert Lovink and Denise Thwaites Session 1: 10: 15 – 11:15am Hiding in and from the internet: Avoidance and Dissociation Moderator: Nicole Curato Ella Barclay – Visualising Messy Connectivity in [...]

The Slow Cancellation of Online Libraries (part 2)

By Henry Warwick, October 7, 2024

Part 1: https://networkcultures.org/blog/2024/09/22/henry-warwick-the-slow-cancellation-of-online-libraries/ We’re in an interesting juncture where smaller libraries are easily transported (I have a USB drive that will hold 64GB of data that is literally the size of my thumbnail.) These are available in 128GB as well. The problem is, the “hero” level systems like UBUweb / libgen / sci-hub / etc. [...]