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The Critical Makers Reader: (Un)learning Technology

By Maisa Imamovic, November 20, 2019

     About the book: A decade ago many gushed at the possibilities of 3D printers and other DIY tech. Today makers are increasingly shaking off their initial blind enthusiasm to numerically control everything, rediscovering an interest in sociocultural histories and futures and waking up to the environmental and economic implications of digital machines that [...]

MoneyLab Reader 2: Overcoming the Hype

By Inte Gloerich, January 20, 2018

   Download individual chapters here. About the book: MoneyLab is a network of artists, activists, and geeks experimenting with forms of financial democratization. Entering the 10th year of the global financial crisis, it still remains a difficult yet crucial task to distinguish old wine from its fancy new bottles. The MoneyLab network questions persistent beliefs, [...]

MoneyLab Reader: An Intervention in Digital Economy

By Miriam Rasch, April 2, 2015

MoneyLab is part of a global movement that demands the democratization of the design of our financial futures. Audacity is essential in times of crisis. And so we must engage constructively with hackers, entrepreneurs, and other creators who take up the call for economic alternatives. One first step is a map of the present: What [...]

Society of the Query Reader: Reflections on Web Search

By admin, April 23, 2014

PDFs of all the articles can be downloaded separately from this page. Read the Introduction to the volume here. About the book: Looking up something online is one of the most common applications of the web. Whether with a laptop or smartphone, we search the web from wherever we are, at any given moment. ‘Googling’ [...]

Unlike Us Reader: Social Media Monopolies and Their Alternatives

By admin, February 20, 2013

About the book: The Unlike Us Reader offers a critical examination of social media, bringing together theoretical essays, personal discussions, and artistic manifestos. How can we understand the social media we use everyday, or consciously choose not to use? We know very well that monopolies control social media, but what are the alternatives? While Facebook [...]

Video Vortex Reader II: Moving Images Beyond YouTube

By admin, December 16, 2012

Print copies are out of stock. About the book: Video Vortex Reader II is the Institute of Network Cultures’ second collection of texts that critically explore the rapidly changing landscape of online video and its use. With the success of YouTube (‘2 billion views per day’) and the rise of other online video sharing platforms, the [...]

Critical Point of View: A Wikipedia Reader

By admin, December 16, 2012

About the book: For millions of internet users around the globe, the search for new knowledge begins with Wikipedia. The encyclopedia’s rapid rise, novel organization, and freely offered content have been marveled at and denounced by a host of commentators. Critical Point of View moves beyond unflagging praise, well-worn facts, and questions about its reliability [...]

Urban Screens Reader

By admin, December 16, 2012

  About the book: The Urban Screens Reader is the first book to focus entirely on the topic of urban screens. In assembling contributions from a range of leading theorists, in conjunction with a series of case studies dealing with artists’ projects and screen operators’ and curators’ experiences, the reader offers a rich resource for [...]

Video Vortex Reader: Responses to YouTube

By admin, December 16, 2012

Print copies are out of stock. About the book: The Video Vortex Reader is the first collection of critical texts to deal with the rapidly emerging world of online video – from its explosive rise in 2005 with YouTube, to its future as a significant form of personal media. After years of talk about digital [...]

MyCreativity Reader: A Critique of Creative Industries

By admin, December 16, 2012

About the book: The MyCreativity Reader is a collection of critical research into the creative industries. The material develops out of the MyCreativity Convention on International Creative Industries Research held in Amsterdam, November 2006. This two-day conference sought to bring the trends and tendencies around the creative industries into critical question. The ‘creative industries’ concept [...]