Network Notion #7 – Imagining the Internet(s): A Collaborative Glossary

By Tommaso Campagna, June 22, 2026

  Network Notion #7 – Imagining the Internet(s): A Collaborative Glossary Edited by Nathalie Fridzema, Anya Shchetvina The internet has never been just a piece of technology, unified in its material form. Rather, it is a story we have learned to tell ourselves, organized by metaphors, futuristic pref ixes like ‘cyber’, and a suspension of [...]

Vectoral Agents 2: Are You Agentic Enough?

By Anielek Niemyjski, June 22, 2026

  Network Notion #6 – Vectoral Agents 2: Are You Agentic Enough? Edited by Jernej Markelj We are increasingly embedded in highly complex and intelligent machinic networks that enable and shape our capacities to act. Recommendation algorithms organize our search results, feeds, and playlists; LLMs doctor our emails, plan our travel itineraries, and help us [...]

How To Not Dissolve Completely

By Ruben Stoffelen, March 20, 2026

    Network Notion #5 – How To Not Dissolve Completely Two Essays by Mela Miekus and Ruben Stoffelen It seems increasingly impossible to imagine human life without technology. Ranging from sociality, to medicine, to the military—the industries that preserve as well as destroy life are mediated through digital technologies on a planetary-scale. While big [...]

Vectoral Agents: Power in the Age of Planetary Computation

By Ruben Stoffelen, November 28, 2025

      Network Notion #4 – Vectoral Agents: Power in the Age of Planetary Computation Edited by Jernej Markelj & Claudio Celis Bueno As machine learning algorithms are delegated with more and more tasks, the capacities that were historically considered signs of human exceptionalism become increasingly less persuasive. Composing a song, making a managerial [...]

OUT NOW – Internet’s Dark Forests: Subcultural Memories and Vernaculars of a Layered Imaginary by Marta Ceccarelli

By INC Team, April 24, 2024

Afterword of Semiotics of the End: New Beginnings

By Matt Bluemink, December 21, 2023

This is the afterword for Network Notion #1: Semiotics of the End by Alessandro Sbordoni.   ‘In a way, we must start at the end.’ Deleuze and Guattari[1]   This statement from Deleuze and Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus brings us to a strange conclusion. If we are to start at the end, which way should [...]

OUT NOW – Network Notion #1: Semiotics of the End by Alessandro Sbordoni 

By INC Team, December 21, 2023

The Institute of Network Cultures is Proud to Present its New Publication Series: Network Notion #1 Semiotics of the End: On Capitalism and the Apocalypse By Alessandro Sbordoni  The end of the world is just another sign of semiocapitalism. Semiotics of the End is a collection of thirteen essays about the end of the world [...]

Plaats vergaan: Politiek en praktijk van atelierontwikkeling

By Sepp Eckenhaussen, November 18, 2024

Network Notion #3 – Plaats vergaan: Politiek en praktijk van atelierontwikkeling Door Roel Griffioen ‘Het atelier’ is in de kunstgeschiedenis meermaals doodverklaard – eerst door de opkomst van conceptuele kunst, later door de digitale revolutie. Maar wie naar de hedendaagse kunstpraktijk kijkt, ziet dat kunstenaars en cultuurwerkers hun werkruimtes onverminderd hard nodig hebben. Ook beleidsmakers [...]

Internet’s Dark Forests: Subcultural Memories and Vernaculars of a Layered Imaginary

By Tommaso Campagna, April 24, 2024

         Network Notion #2 Internet’s Dark Forests: Subcultural Memories and Vernaculars of a Layered Imaginary Marta Ceccarelli In this book, Marta Ceccarelli sheds light on the partially hidden shadowlands of the internet’s Dark Forests. The author proposes a possible reading of the history of the (social) internet. Starting from the transformation of [...]

Network Notion #1: Semiotics of the End: On Capitalism and the Apocalypse

By Chloë Arkenbout, December 21, 2023

        Network Notion #1 Semiotics of the End: On Capitalism and the Apocalypse Alessandro Sbordoni  The end of the world is just another sign of semiocapitalism. Semiotics of the End is a collection of thirteen essays about the end of the world and its representation in XXI-century culture. The apocalypse as such [...]