Network Notebooks

Out now: Network Notebook 10 – The Internet Revolution by Richard Barbrook

By Vera van de Nieuwenhof, October 19, 2015

We’re happy to announce the publication of the 10th Network Notebook: The Internet Revolution by Richard Barbrook. It is available online through Issuu, but you can also order your hardcopy here. About this publication: Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron’s The Californian Ideology, originally published in 1995 by Mute magazine and the nettime mailinglist, is the [...]

Network Notebook #11: The Ends of the Internet, Boris Beaude

By Miriam Rasch, July 5, 2016

Order a free print copy by filling out the form below. About this publication: The Ends of the Internet is an investigation into all the reasons why the Internet, which has been with us for over thirty years, is now on the verge of disappearing. Originally conceived as a space of freedom, the Internet has [...]

Network Notebook #10: The Internet Revolution: From Dot-com Capitalism to Cybernetic Communism by Richard Barbrook, with Andy Cameron

By Miriam Rasch, October 16, 2015

About this publication: Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron’s The Californian Ideology, originally published in 1995 by Mute magazine and the nettime mailinglist, is the iconic text of the first wave of Net criticism. The internet might have fundamentally changed in the last two decades, but their demolition of the neoliberal orthodoxies of Silicon Valley remains [...]

Network Notebook #09: Digital Tailspin: Ten Rules for the Internet After Snowden, Michael Seemann

By Miriam Rasch, March 11, 2015

About the publication: Privacy, copyright, classified documents and state secrets, but also spontaneous network phenomena like flash mobs and hashtag revolutions, reveal one thing – we lost control over the digital world. We experience a digital tailspin, or as Michael Seemann calls it in this essay: a loss of control or Kontrollverlust. Data we never knew existed [...]

Network Notebook #08: The Allure of the Selfie: Instagram and the New Self Portrait, Brooke Wendt

By Miriam Rasch, October 9, 2014

About the publication: Over 130 million images with the hashtag ‘selfie’ have been uploaded to the social media platform Instagram. In The Allure of the Selfie: Instagram and the New Self-Portrait, Brooke Wendt examines the significant hold that the ‘selfie’, or the digital self-portrait, has over self and society. Media theorist Vilém Flusser observed that [...]

Network Notebook #07: Radical Tactics of the Offline Library, Henry Warwick

By Miriam Rasch, June 20, 2014

About the publication: The Personal Portable Library in its most simple form is a hard drive or USB stick containing a large collection of e-books, curated, archived and indexed by an individual user. The flourishing of the offline digital library is a response to the fact that truly private sharing of knowledge in the online [...]

Network Notebook #06: The Inner Life of Video Spheres, Andreas Treske

By admin, February 27, 2013

About the publication: Video is everywhere, like a space in which we move, an ocean we can dive into. But video is no longer the video we once knew. To address this techno-social shift, Andreas Treske sketches the outlines for a philosophical and practical understanding of online video, offering up a theory for the YouTube generation. [...]

Legacies of Tactical Media

By admin, January 4, 2013

About the publication: Tactical Media employ the ‘tactics of the weak’ to operate on the terrain of strategic power by means of ‘any media necessary’. Once the rather exclusive practice of politically engaged artists and activists, the tactical appropriations of media tools and distribution infrastructures by the disenfranchised and the disgruntled have moved from the margins [...]

The Glitch Moment(um)

By admin, January 4, 2013

About the publication: In this book, Rosa Menkman brings in early information theorists not usually encountered in glitch’s theoretical foundations to refine a signal and informational vocabulary appropriate to glitch’s technological moment(um) and orientations. The book makes sense of recent glitch art and culture: technically, culturally, critically, aesthetically and finally as a genre. The glitch takes [...]

The Telekommunist Manifesto

By admin, 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 and economic distribution. [...]