Berliner Gazette launches After Extractivism

By Chloë Arkenbout, November 24, 2022

After an inspiring local event in Berlin at the Haus der Demokratie und Menschenrechte, the Berliner Gazette has launched the “After Extractivism” conference as an “asynchronous online event” and expansive resource site with video talks, projects, texts, and audios tackling the Ecological-Economic Complex, Green Capitalism, and Transition Justice. Check out the website here: https://after-extractivism.berlinergazette.de. In [...]

Out now: APRIA Journal, Issue #4: Feminist by Design

By Chloë Arkenbout, April 12, 2022

Announcing the new issue of APRIA journal, Feminist by Design, edited by Mariana Fossatti, Tigist Shewarega Hussen and Namita Aavriti Malhotra. This journal features contributions from Nyx McClean, Nadege, Débora Prado, Aayush Rathi, Horacio F. Sívori, Akash Sheshadri, Ambika Tandon, Bruna Zanolli and Bruno Zilli. The algorithmic and data-driven technology we use every day regularly [...]

The Great Parler Hack

By Eleni Maragkou, January 11, 2021

In the aftermath of the chaotic coup-that-wasn’t incited by a Brady Bunch of QAnon conspiracists, Proud Boys, and everyday American Trumpists on January 6, 2021, their newfound home, alternative (read: white supremacist-friendly) social platform Parler is in trouble. Amazon has dropped the controversial platform from its AWS hosting service starting Sunday night, January 10. Apple [...]

The Institute of Network Cultures stands in solidarity with the Budapest University of Theatre and Film Arts

By Chloë Arkenbout, October 8, 2020

Budapest University of Theatre and Film Arts students have not only occupied their university, they have now redesigned the university completely and started new ways of teaching with their ‘experimental teaching republic’. Earlier this October, nearly 100 students occupied their university after the right-wing national government of prime minister Viktor Orband transferred ownership of the [...]

Podcast: Why data won’t redeem us

By Miriam Rasch, August 17, 2020

This summer Eurozine launched their podcast titled Gagarin. I was invited to join Réka Kinga Papp, editor-in-chief- of Eurozine, to talk about my book Frictie and the accompanying Eurozine essay Friction and the aesthetics of the smooth. Listen to the episode over at Eurozine or find it in your podcast app. “What does the worship [...]

LAVA BRIGADE: LAVA #2 / AIR & EARTH & FIRE

By Geert Lovink, July 22, 2020

“I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion.” Henry David Thoreau, Resistance to Civil Government. Please check the CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS for the new issue of LAVA – Letters from the Volcano! https://lavaletters.org/ & https://lavaletters.org/call-def.pdf We can’t breathe. After 50 years of neoliberal barbarism – which has accelerated the necrotic [...]

Friction and the aesthetics of the smooth: Ethics in times of dataism

By Miriam Rasch, May 14, 2020

Read an excerpt in English from Frictie over at Eurozine: Seamless design is an important dogma of dataism. Without unpredictable behaviour, however, there’s no data to retrieve. A wholly predictable future is just a continuous present, a tyranny of choices on offer. But returning to our time-honoured language is similarly impossible. What we need is [...]

Out now: Frictie – Ethiek in tijden van dataïsme, Miriam Rasch

By Geert Lovink, May 11, 2020

Verschenen op 6 mei 2020 bij De Bezige Bij, Amsterdam, Frictie: Ethiek in tijden van dataïsme van Miriam Rasch, onderzoeker bij het Instituut voor Netwerkcultuur. Dataïsme is het geloof dat alles te vertalen is in data. Data leggen de wereld vast en maken haar beheersbaar. Maar voor wie en met welk doel? De onderliggende aannames [...]

Listen now: Zine renaissance and hyperlocal news – Eurozine podcast

By Miriam Rasch, March 13, 2020

Listen to “Eurozine Podcast Part II: Local journalism in the digital age” on Spreaker. Globalization was supposed to connect people, but instead ended up connecting the powerful. Local news is rapidly disappearing and leaving crucial stories unreported, communities unrepresented and disconnected, a side-effect of digitalization and the ownership concentration in media markets. But local and [...]

Please fill out the Urgent Publishing Survey and help us find new strategies in post-truth times

By Sepp Eckenhaussen, June 11, 2019

What kind of reading experiences do you look for? What kind of content do you read and where do you find it? Which (digital) tools, formats and forms of reading interest you? Insight in your preferences will help cultural publishers to keep their publishing urgent and experimental. Please help the Making Public-consortium by anonymously filling out [...]

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