Posts By: Leonieke van Dipten

Out now: Disruption des Journalismus

By Leonieke van Dipten, July 9, 2018

Today, public interest in journalism seems greater than ever. Buzzwords such as ‘fake news’ or ‘click bait’ indicate that we are dealing with a polarising political issue. Anyone who dares to investigate journalism in this intensified situation also wants to better understand the world in which we are living. After all, journalists play a decisive [...]

Out now! Deep Pocket no. 2 Shadowbook: Writing Through the Digital by Miriam Rasch

By Leonieke van Dipten, June 16, 2018

The second volume in our series with experimental writing, Deep Pockets, is available. INC’s very own Miriam Rasch collected some of her work from the past years for an English edition called Shadowbook: Writing Through the Digital 2014-2018. Five experimental essays and one exposition, all dealing with the question ‘How do we write when we [...]

Democratisering van de Kunstkritiek?

By Leonieke van Dipten, April 6, 2018

How-To Digitale Kunstkritiek Donderdag 19 april, 17.00- 19.00, Spui 25, Amsterdam Door Sonja van der Valk Het publiek is steeds vaker een actor in het kunstenveld. In het theater participeert ze, in het museum cureert ze, met designers ontwerpt ze. In de kritische reflectie op die kunst is haar rol echter marginaal, zeker als actor. [...]

‘Fictiocracy: Media and Politics in the Age of Storytelling’ – new Longform by Davide Banis

By Leonieke van Dipten, February 22, 2018

In times of fake news and post-truth politics, the internet acts as catalyst, multiplying the impact of falsities and further blurring the boundary between fact and fiction. In this longform Davide Banis asked himself how to make sense of the relationship between any representational media and reality. And…what is ‘fictiocracy’? We proudly present our latest [...]

Geen voorgeprogrammeerde disruptie maar furieus onderwijs voor creatievelingen – een bespreking van ‘in defence of serendipity’

By Leonieke van Dipten, July 3, 2017

Het boek In Defence of Serendipity: For a Radical Politics of Innovation van Sebastian Olma verscheen in December 2016 en kwam tot stand na een jarig fellowship bij het Instituut voor Netwerkcultuur. Door Eke Rebergen Sebastian Olma wil in zijn boek In Defence of Serendipity de creatievelingen tot de orde roepen. Terecht, zo wil ik [...]

‘The Post-digital Condition’ – new INC Longform by Miriam Rasch

By Leonieke van Dipten, May 19, 2017

‘The Post-digital Condition’ is the English translation of the opening essay from Swimming in the Ocean: Texts from a Post-digital World, the essay collection by INC’s very own Miriam Rasch to be published in Dutch by renowned publishing house De Bezige Bij in June 2017. The essay is published in the INC Longform series. The translation [...]

Zero Infinite #2 Postdigital Publishing

By Leonieke van Dipten, March 1, 2017

We proudly  present our second podcast, Postdigital Publishing. In this episode we discuss the future of (digital) publishing through interviews with Janneke Adema, Michael Dieter, Morehshin Allahyari and Daniel Rourke. Although digital technologies promised a renaissance in the publishing industries, publishers still struggle with digital innovations and try to hold on to traditional workflows, production, [...]

Out now: On Socialist Cybernetics, Accelerationist Dreams and Tiqqun’s Nightmares

By Leonieke van Dipten, December 22, 2016

Are cybernetics and computer technologies ‘machines of communism’, a potential path to emancipatory coordination that is capable of hyper-complexity, or are they just the next governing techniques for boosting capitalistic exploitation, surveillance and oppression? We proudly present our latest longform On Socialist Cybernetics, Accelerationist Dreams and Tiqqun’s Nightmares by Paul Buckermann. About the author: Paul [...]

What can we say about the state of the art of digital comics?

By Leonieke van Dipten, November 21, 2016

What can we say about the state of the art of digital comics? Comics have taken on new forms in the digital realm as they offer many ways of reshaping the combination of visual and textual components. The limitations of the printed comic book are lifted as gifs, videos, HTML and other digital techniques offer [...]

New INC Longform: A Dream Of An Algorithm by Agnieszka Zimolag

By Leonieke van Dipten, September 26, 2016

‘As I walk towards my home at night a wet surface of the pavement glitters in all shades of black, reminding me that I am surfing. Not just on the street, but on the endless glassy surface of the interface of this world. This is where I belong. The warmth of the reflection entangles me, [...]