Posts By: Silvio Lorusso

Dispatches from the Quarantine 05: Salvatore Iaconesi

By Silvio Lorusso, April 15, 2020

A dispatch from Salvatore Iaconesi, artist and technologist based in Rome [This dispatch, originally published in Italian on the newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore, is part of a series. Read the previous ones here.] We are fragile. Of so many different frailties. The state of quarantine makes us touch the borders of these fragility: economic, [...]

Dispatches from the Quarantine 04: Lídia Pereira

By Silvio Lorusso, April 14, 2020

A dispatch from Lídia Pereira, Portuguese writer and designer based in Rotterdam [This dispatch is part of a series: read the previous ones here.] “I am thinking of all the things that I cannot think about because I cannot feel them because I cannot live them because I live here I am here and despite everything [...]

Dispatches from the Quarantine 03: Alex Foti

By Silvio Lorusso, April 13, 2020

A dispatch from Alex Foti, writer and activist based in Milan [This dispatch is part of a series: read the previous ones here.] Nothing can never be the same. Nothing must never be the same. While the former is often repeated by pundits in these weeks of house arrest, the latter really is the assumption that [...]

Dispatches from the Quarantine 02: Alina Lupu

By Silvio Lorusso, April 13, 2020

Dispatch from Alina Lupu, Romanian Artist Based in Amsterdam [This dispatch is part of a series: read the previous one here.] As a generally resistant person, tending to be first and foremost critical of every situation as well as hard to engage in the first stage, I find it fascinating that this reorientation towards online [...]

Dispatches from the Quarantine 01: Silvio Lorusso and Geert Lovink

By Silvio Lorusso, April 13, 2020

by Silvio Lorusso and Geert Lovink During these long days, thinking is hard. Coronavirus updates come from every milieu: friends, family, work, governments, finance, the economy at large. None of them can be ignored. Remember, we used to complain about information overload. What about now? Now that we’re uninterruptedly tuned to different sources, from apps, [...]

Quantified Self #1 – a fragmented self-analysis

By Silvio Lorusso, August 8, 2011

Quantified Self exploits the opportunity of gathering relevant informations by tracking INC blogs’ fruition. Through separated dossiers periodically published on this blog an archive of the websites’ history will be built. The first dossier offers a visual comparison among INC’s blogs’ visits during the month of June 2011.

New INC Research: Out of Ink – Future Publishing Industries

By Silvio Lorusso, July 26, 2011

Digital technology has greatly impacted the publishing industry, leading to consolidation of the production cycle, reduction of the publication time period, use of newly available and open source publishing formats, and changing revenue models. Self-publishing, open access, and new players such as Amazon, Google, and Lulu have altered the previously defined roles related to this [...]

Publications Overview in EPUB format

By Silvio Lorusso, June 20, 2011

The publication overview is now available in EPUB format. This release represents an experiment on employing open standards for INC digital publishing. The catalogue includes INC Reader series, Studies in Network Cultures, Network Notebooks, Theory on Demand and some miscellaneous titles. Download EPUB from here.

ToD Readers available on Scribd and Issuu

By Silvio Lorusso, June 8, 2011

At the following links you can find all the Theory on Demand readers published till now. In addition, several other readers by the INC are available for browsing and free download. In the next days the catalogue will be updated with the missing documents. INC’s bookshelf on Scribd. INC’s bookshelf on Issuu. About Scribd: Scribd [...]

The Espresso Book Machine

By Silvio Lorusso, May 27, 2011

The Espresso Book Machine allows to print a book in minutes. It’s perfect for self-publishing because one can print as many copy as he or she needs. When a book is printed it may be stored in the database so customers from all around the world can buy prints of it. One can also print [...]