net critique blog by Geert Lovink
By Svitlana Matviyenko, July 9, 2022
May 30 – June 20, 2022 Salt disappeared. At the end of May, the shelf at the Silpo supermarket, where it is usually sitting – local or imported – is empty. Tired of answering the same questions, sellers at the market put their hand-made signs upfront: there is no salt – cолі немає. Online, the [...]
By Svitlana Matviyenko, May 31, 2022
May 9 – 29, 2022 The war did not end on May 9th. That day Russia celebrated the 77th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany with a large-scale military parade in Moscow’s Red Square. To the huge disappointment of the public, there was no promised flying display of the supersonic Tu-160 strategic bombers, nor a so-called “Doomsday” [...]
By 11111 &23%#719, May 26, 2022
Maxim Kondratiev is a coordinator of Avtozak LIVE, an independent media that covers protests and the violations of rights in Russia. Avtozak LIVE is mostly active on Telegram, where their channel has almost 51.000 followers. We talked with Maxim in early May via Zoom. He is currently residing in a migration centre in the Netherlands, [...]
By Marco te Brömmelstroet, Letizia Chiappini, and Ying-Tzu Lin, May 18, 2022
Originally published in Dutch on NRC (May 22th, 2022) Premise of the article This article looks at Amsterdam as an illustrative example of our research about digital platforms. Commercial platforms for food and grocery delivery have grown tremendously during the Covid period. Their advertisements and logos are capturing attention everywhere, on ferries, trams and in [...]
By Chloë Arkenbout, May 15, 2022
The Institute of Network Cultures is looking for an intern with research and development skills Internship period: September 1st, 2022 until Feburary 1st, 2023 (0.6-0.8 fte/3-4 days a week). The Institute of Network Cultures (INC) is a media research center that actively contributes to the field of network cultures through research, events, publications, and online [...]
By Maria van der Togt, May 11, 2022
🄸🄽 🅃🄷🄴 🄻🄾🄾🄿Ukraine special edition Tactical Tech is an international NGO that engages with citizens and civil-society organizations to explore and mitigate the impacts of technology on society. Their vision is a world where digital technologies can contribute to a more equitable, democratic, and sustainable society. To enable this change, they investigate how digital technologies [...]
By Svitlana Matviyenko, May 10, 2022
April 13 – May 8, 2022 If you do not know Russian or if you just focus on the voice’s timbre and the rhythm of this brief conversation, it feels comforting. You’d immediately sense this young woman and man are attracted to one another. They definitely have a bond and, possibly, even a passion. You [...]
By 11111 &23%#719, May 4, 2022
The first edition of the Kyiv Biennial named The School of Kyiv took place in 2015. By adapting, or rather reappropriating the well-known and highly commercial format of the international exhibition, Vasyl Cherepanyn, one of the organizers of the Biennial, sought to reflect the Maidan revolution in a thematic format of education. The school epitomized [...]
By Maria van der Togt, May 3, 2022
We met around 8, on a Thursday evening[1]. Welcomed by the smell of homemade soup. Courtesy of Mirror Soup Kitchen Lviv. Hackers, artists, researchers, journalists, and passerby’s filled their bellies with the very same soup that’s providing essential sustenance a mere 1.362km away. The very same recipe, cooked on the very same day. It tasted [...]
By Sepp Eckenhaussen, April 30, 2022
De culture of giving is in de afgelopen jaren steeds belangrijker geworden voor het financieren van culturele programma’s. Maar wie geeft er eigenlijk aan wie en waarom? En hoe staan private giften in verhouding tot publieke financiering? De staat van mecenaat is een eendaags symposium van Platform BK en Framer Framed over de veranderende rol van [...]
