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Open Call: Join the Digital Democracy Forum by the Platform Co-op School

By Sepp Eckenhaussen, January 9, 2023

Long hailed as a democratic tool, the internet is now a tool for private economic interests. This forum brings together researchers, artists, policymakers, labor leaders, and technologists at the forefront of efforts to construct a democratic internet. What challenges do we face, and how do we overcome them? Lectures, workshops, stakeholder meetings and tech-meetups will [...]

OUT NOW – Audiobook Extinction Internet by Geert Lovink

By Tommaso Campagna, December 23, 2022

  Extinction Internet is not merely an end-of-the-world phantasy of digital technology that one day will be wiped out by an electromagnetic pulse or the cutting of cables. Rather, Extinction Internet marks the end of an era of possibilities and speculations, when adaptation is no longer an option. During the internet’s Lost Decade, we’ve been [...]

How to Resist Data Colonialism? Interview with Nick Couldry & Ulises Mejias

By Geert Lovink, December 13, 2022

Interview with Nick Couldry and Ulises Mejias by Teresa Numerico The critical discussion about data power and politics is now mainstream. There are a lot of doubts about the rhetoric that Big Data could represent human preferences, habits, and behaviours without a subjective situated gaze on social phenomena. One of the most interesting texts that [...]

OUT NOW – New Essay by Geert Lovink: Extinction Internet

By Tommaso Campagna, November 24, 2022

Extinction Internet is not merely an end-of-the-world phantasy of digital technology that one day will be wiped out by an electromagnetic pulse or the cutting of cables. Rather, Extinction Internet marks the end of an era of possibilities and speculations, when adaptation is no longer an option. During the internet’s Lost Decade, we’ve been rearranging [...]

A Conversation With Ruha Benjamin

By jasmin, November 18, 2022

With grace, eloquence and wisdom, Ruha Benjamin recently presented her book “Viral Justice – How we Grow the World we Want”  in Amsterdam. As a Research Masters student at the University of Amsterdam and on behalf of the INC, I  attended two of her events, both at SPUI 25 and the Institute of Advanced Study. [...]

OUT NOW – Overload, Creep, Excess – An Internet from India by Nishant Shah, Ashish Rajadhyaskha and Nafis Hasan

By Tommaso Campagna, October 27, 2022

Theory on Demand #45 Overload, Creep, Excess – An Internet from India Nishant Shah, Ashish Rajadhyaskha, Nafis Hasan. Foreword – Chinmayi Arun This book locates India’s flourishing internet within a complex 24-year history that has seen an unprecedented re-organization of social and political life. Three essays provide independent perspectives on a common area of inquiry, an [...]

Grand Opening Program of LetterVerZ

By Geert Lovink, September 20, 2022

Vrijdag 23 september 2022, om precies 15.00 uur, vindt de officiële opening van LetterVerZ plaats bij De Dokwerker en de Weesperbrug, de M.S. Vaz Diasbrug. Daarmee vieren we dat het bruggedicht Wibautotisme van Kristian Kanstadt daar exact 40 jaar onder hangt, in de typografie van Karim Hashem. In choreografie openen boten de brug, zingt een [...]

Christopher Kelty: The Internet We Could Have Had

By Geert Lovink, September 15, 2022

Ten years ago I began writing a book. It was going to be called Power/Sharing and would pick up on my previous book Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software. It was a turbulent time: the occupy movement, M15 and the indignados movement, the protests in Tunisia and Egypt, protests against legislation called SOPA/PIPA, [...]

‘Out of Place’-Inaugural Rietveld Academy Lecture by Patricia de Vries

By Geert Lovink, September 8, 2022

Invitation for ‘Out of Place’ Inaugural Lecture by Patricia de Vries Gerrit Rietveld Academy, September 29, 2022, 4-6PM The newly appointed Gerrit Rietveld Academy research professor (‘lector’) and former INC researcher Patricia de Vries will present her inaugural lecture at the start of the academic year 2022–2023. In this lecture, she will elaborate on the [...]

After Techno-Utopianism-Phil Agre workshop in Siegen (D), Sept 1/2, 2022

By Geert Lovink, August 15, 2022

From: tatjanaseitz@hotmail.com We can finally announce the schedule for the forthcoming workshop, ‘Agre After Techno-Utopianism’, to be held at the University of Siegen, Germany/hybrid, 1-2 September. We will hold two paper sessions on ‘Agre as a Philosopher’ and ‘Capture and Capitalism’, with contributions from a range of scholars. In addition, we have a number of [...]