We Have Always Been Brainrotted

By Jordi Viader Guerrero, September 10, 2026

Ask Me for Those Unborn Promises that May Seem Unlikely to Happen in the Natural

By Jordi Viader Guerrero, September 10, 2026

Let’s Play Image Type Charades!

By Rosa Menkman, July 24, 2026

Proceedings from my presentation during EXIT FEST on the 24th of June 2026, in celebration of Geert Lovink and the Institute of Network Cultures’ departure from the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (HvA) on September 1, 2026. The Digital Image is Non-Static While we usually think of images as static objects, they are in fact [...]

Slopification, Mon Amour: How I Stopped Hating the Algorithm and Became a Sloppy Research Persona

By Tommaso Campagna, July 2, 2026

Vectoral Agents 2: Are You Agentic Enough?

By Anielek Niemyjski, June 22, 2026

  Network Notion #6 – Vectoral Agents 2: Are You Agentic Enough? Edited by Jernej Markelj We are increasingly embedded in highly complex and intelligent machinic networks that enable and shape our capacities to act. Recommendation algorithms organize our search results, feeds, and playlists; LLMs doctor our emails, plan our travel itineraries, and help us [...]

Paint Me Like One of Your Online Propaganda Girls

By Giulia Timis, April 6, 2026

Visual Tropes and Affect Propaganda in Orbán’s Electoral Campaign There’s a video circulating online that opens with a little girl sitting by a rainy window. She asks her mom where dad is and when he will come back. The mother answers “soon”. The rain keeps pouring in the next scene, in which a man, whom [...]

How To Not Dissolve Completely

By Ruben Stoffelen, March 20, 2026

    Network Notion #5 – How To Not Dissolve Completely Two Essays by Mela Miekus and Ruben Stoffelen It seems increasingly impossible to imagine human life without technology. Ranging from sociality, to medicine, to the military—the industries that preserve as well as destroy life are mediated through digital technologies on a planetary-scale. While big [...]

Girls Against Identity

By Mela Miekus, February 12, 2026

On February 10, 2026, I took part in an event at Spui25 that explored digital culture and the self through the lens of Alexander Douglas’ Against Identity. The book takes on the ‘uncomfortable’ topic of identity and decides to play against it, drawing on the philosophies of three very different figures: Zhuangzi, Benedict de Spinoza, [...]

A Review of a Sexual History of the Internet & the Influencer Theorist

By Eva Brown, December 22, 2025

 Part One: The Cyberfeminism Index  In the past three years, we saw the Cyberfeminism Index on every hot, internet-pilled girl’s bedside table. Mindy Seu’s newest publication, A Sexual History of the Internet, is sure to follow in its lead. The first time I saw the green book was in its birthplace, or at least across [...]

Longing for Locality: Nostalgia and Resistance in the Age of Platforms

By Anielek Niemyjski, December 22, 2025