Infrastructure that Sticks: Digital Affect Within Sovietcore

By Salome Berdzenishvili, November 4, 2024

Жить тяжело и неуютно Зато уютно умирать (Living is difficult and confining, But dying is liberating) The words written above are an excerpt from the song Sudno (Boris Ryzhy) by post-punk band Molchat Doma from Minsk. These words also often loop over the reels on post-Soviet aesthetics found online – the ones of decayed brutalist [...]

Mythologized Masculinity and Dietary Practices

By Ruben Stoffelen, April 25, 2024

Dietary practices and the digital landscape have always been entangled with one another. It seems like the visual practice of posting your food has existed as long as the affordance of posting photos online has existed, with heavily filtered pictures of plates and their contents being ubiquitous on almost any social media platform. Think of [...]

IF YOU DON’T MOVE YOU’RE NOT HERE: Welcome to the Post-Zoom Alternative Mumler.app

By Agnieszka Antkowiak, January 14, 2024

On the occasion of the Expanded Publishing Fest – 20 Years of INC on the 12th of January 2024 amidst the triple book launch, micro book fair, tactical television and club night there was one more event that took place in the in-between spaces of physical and digital – the first public connection established through [...]

On Indisciplinary Technical Practice or How to Do Research on AI Without Doing Research on AI

By Jordi Viader Guerrero, December 12, 2023

Reflections on the Second Iteration of the Moments of Reading Workshop Invited by Daniel Leix Palumbo, fellow PhD researcher in this messy field we call AI, and Dr. Matt Coler, the second iteration of the Moments of Reading workshop took place on October 24, 2023 (thanks a lot to both and all the students who [...]

Reckless Endeavours, Ethics, and Memes — Reflections on the Fraught Side of Raving

By Eleni Maragkou, December 7, 2023

At its core, raving has existed in opposition to normativity, and so has electronic music. If newcomers enticed by hard trance remixes of 2000’s Top 40 hits embrace this opposition, it is often done in ways removed from history. As Loren Granic AKA Goddollars, co-founder and resident of A Club Called Rhonda in Los Angeles, stated: [...]

Notes on Eyes and Access: A Transmediale Panel on Sight

By Klara Debeljak, April 23, 2023

Attending conferences such as the 2023 Transmediale A Model A Map A Fiction in Berlin is a type of privilege. In our oversaturated world, it is a privilege to be exposed to people who do the data-sifting for you and collectively fill out and reveal this endless web of connections. By this I mean the [...]

The Techno-Utopia of the Grocery Delivery Platforms

By Marco te Brömmelstroet, Letizia Chiappini, and Ying-Tzu Lin, May 18, 2022

Originally published in Dutch on NRC (May 22th, 2022) Premise of the article This article looks at Amsterdam as an illustrative example of our research about digital platforms. Commercial platforms for food and grocery delivery have grown tremendously during the Covid period. Their advertisements and logos are capturing attention everywhere, on ferries, trams and in [...]