Made in China, Designed in California, Criticised in Europe: Amsterdam Design Manifesto

By Barbara Dubbeldam, July 5, 2019

Written by Mieke Gerritzen & Geert Lovink. Download the pdf here. When everything is destined to be designed, design disappears into the everyday. We simply don’t see it anymore because it’s everywhere. This is the vanishing act of design. At this moment design registers its redundancy: our products, environments and services have been comprehensively improved. [...]

TOD #19: Internet on the Outstation: The Digital Divide and Remote Aboriginal Communities

By Miriam Rasch, June 7, 2016

About this publication: Internet on the Outstation provides a new take on the digital divide. Why do whole communities choose to go without the internet when the infrastructure for access is in place? Through an in-depth exploration of the digital practices occurring in Aboriginal households in remote central Australia, the authors address both the dynamics [...]

Anti-Media: Ephemera on Speculative Arts, Florian Cramer

By INC Team, June 20, 2013

Anti-Media: Ephemera on Speculative Arts by Florian Cramer About the book: 1. There is art, and there is anti-art. 2. If that is so, there must also be anti-media. 3. ‘Media’ as a term is as fuzzy as ‘art’. 4. Both ‘art’ and ‘media’ refuse to go away. Anti-media is what [...]

TOD #10: Beyond ICT4D: New Media Research in Uganda

By INC Team, November 25, 2012

About the publication: Beyond ICT4D: New Media Research in Uganda is a collection of ethnographic reports from diverse perspectives of those living at the other end of the African ICT pyramid. Crucially, these texts refocus on the so-called “ICT4D” debate away from the standard western lens, which depicts users in the developing world as passive [...]

The Telekommunist Manifesto

By INC Team, January 4, 2013

About the publication: In the age of international telecommunications, global migration and the emergence of the information economy, how can class conflict and property be understood? Drawing from political economy and concepts related to intellectual property, The Telekommunist Manifesto is a key contribution to commons-based, collaborative and shared forms of cultural production [...]

From Weak Ties to Organized Networks: Ideas, Reports, Critiques

By INC Team, December 16, 2012

About the book: In March 2009 the Institute of Network Cultures brought 12 networks to Amsterdam for a week of getting things done. Aim of Winter Camp was to connect the virtual with the real in order to find out how distributed social networks can collaborate more effectively. The more people start [...]

54.780 Woorden over Nieuwe Media Cultuur in Nederland

By INC Team, January 5, 2013

Inleiding: Oude en nieuwe media spelen een steeds grotere rol in onze huidige postindustriële samenleving. Televisie en mobiele telefonie zijn diep doorgedrongen in het dagelijkse leven van veel mensen. Communicatie is door de komst van internet ingrijpend veranderd. We wachten niet meer af, maar gaan zelf op zoek. Beginnen zelf deel uit te [...]