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Our Terms, Our Conditions – Report of the 2023 IMPAKT Festival

By Klara Debeljak, November 20, 2023

During IMPAKT festival 2023 lawyer Jan Fermon and artist Jonas Staal presented their collective action lawsuit Collectivize Facebook. The lawsuit aims to force legal recognition of Facebook as a public domain, owned and controlled by its users. During their panel talk they were asked the following question; »Do your Facebook posts providing updates on the [...]

The State of the Tech Workers Global Movement – Interview with Simone Robutti

By Gianmarco Cristofari, November 16, 2023

Tech Won’t Save Us – Organize! Simone Robutti has been working as a programmer for the last ten years. One day he started to become interested both in the theory of techno politics and the practice of tech worker organization. In fact, his trajectory is kind of similar to mine – a repentant lawyer who [...]

Twenty-First Century Media? Call for Submissions, Sarai, Delhi, March 2024

By Geert Lovink, November 10, 2023

Established in 2000, the Sarai media programme of CSDS in Delhi has been a critical space in the Global South for work on media culture and cultural theory. Sarai was the first space to examine internet culture in the Global South. This is a call for abstracts for a workshop in Delhi, in March 2024. [...]

Bending the Maze: On the Architectures of Digital Enclosures

By Klara Debeljak, November 6, 2023

A famous inscription above the temple of Apollo in Delphi reads: “Know thyself, you, that walks down this hallway.”  It implies responsibility and the weight of agency. And that’s the thing: I always felt responsible for my actions, opinions and tastes. It is what I was always taught, probably because it encouraged a more ethical [...]

Entropyposting or the Art of Sabotaging Your Online Self

By Arianna Caserta, November 4, 2023

In an ocean of perfectly constructed auto narrations, users draft an ode to the ” non-readable” in search of the only method to reappropriate the entropic and spectral side of the Internet. I remember scrolling through Yung Lean‘s Instagram profile meant trying to decode the rules of a universe nobody knew anything about. Pages full of [...]

Black Box Cartography. A Critical Cartography of the Internet and Beyond by Vladan Joler

By Geert Lovink, October 16, 2023

We, Krisis Publishing, an independent publishing and curatorial platform, based in Brescia, Italy, are proud to introduce our new publication Black Box Cartography. A Critical Cartography of the Internet and Beyond by Vladan Joler. With texts and contributions by Vladan Joler, Kate Crawford, Matteo Pasquinelli, Daphne Dragona and SHARE Lab. The book will be published [...]

Eaten by the Internet: Book Launch on Oct 31 @Spui25 Amsterdam

By Geert Lovink, October 16, 2023

Download the pdf of the book here: https://shop.meatspacepress.com/products/eaten-by-the-internet-digital-download-ebook-and-pdf Eaten by the Internet: Power and the Future of the Digital Society, edited by Corinne Cath, published by Meatspace Press, online, 2023. Our world is eaten by the Internet. This means that those who control the Internet control the bounds of public speech, economic production, social cohesion, [...]

Chelsea Manning opens IMPAKT Festival 2023: Our Terms, Our Conditions

By Geert Lovink, October 11, 2023

Program: https://impakt.nl/festival/2023/programme/ On Wednesday 1 November, activist and former U.S. Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning will be present in Utrecht to participate in the opening of the IMPAKT Festival 2023: Our Terms, Our Conditions.Chelsea E. Manning is a technologist and network security expert, analyst, and consultant whose actions showed the world that the conscience of [...]

Timetable for Hybrid Publication Event: Screentime Airtime Facetime, November 10, 2023

By Klara Debeljak, October 9, 2023

Going Hybrid!, the research project dedicated to investigating the medium of publishing in its hybrid forms by subverting notions of what a publication is, concludes its two year cycle by launching a final event; a live-publication, a transcript, a book, a conversation, on the 10th of November, between 13h-17h. We welcome you to join the [...]

Ljubljana: Unfolding the Algo-Rhythmic Ideation Assembly

By Klara Debeljak, October 2, 2023

From the 21st to the 25th of August 2023, Projekt Atol hosted the Omsk Social Club and a program of workshops and lectures for the 18 participants who came together in Ljubljana to Live Action Role-Play, aiming to build and inhabit an alternative world in the context of a changing planetary ecology. Welcome to ARIA, [...]