net critique blog by Geert Lovink
By Karyna Lazaruk, April 25, 2022
Let me start this blog posting with a the list of Russian wars over the past 30 years: Georgia (1991-1993), Abkhasia (1991-1993), Transnistria (1992), North Ossetia-Alania (1992), Tajikistan (1992-1997), Chechnya (1994-1996), Dagestan (1999), Chechnya (1999-2009), Georgia (2008), South Ossetia and Abkhazia, North Caucasus (2009-2017), Ukraine (2014 – present), Syria (2015 – present), Central African Republic [...]
By Maria van der Togt, April 25, 2022
Sign petition here. On April 13, a Saint Petersburg court sent the artist/musician to a pre-trial detention center. She faces between 5 and 10 years of imprisonment because, on March 31, she swapped price tags with stickers containing information about the actions of Russian soldiers in Mariupol in the “Perekrestok” supermarket. She is now accused [...]
By Laurence Scherz, April 20, 2022
Het Domein voor Kunstkritiek en De Nieuwe Garde organiseren dit voorjaar een avontuurlijk lab rondom digitale kunstkritiek en essayistiek, waarin we met elkaar in de online publicatievormen duiken. Een lab voor Nederlandse en Vlaamse cultuurjournalisten, essayisten en makers met experimenteerdrift die (ver) voorbij de lineaire tekst willen kijken. Meld je aan voor deze driedaagse met [...]
By Chloë Arkenbout, April 19, 2022
Tactical Media Room is a temporary coordination group in Amsterdam supporting independent media in Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia, made possible by various organizations working in the tech sector, arts and culture, education, and research. We are looking for an intern for a few days a week with immediate effect, starting for a period of three [...]
By Franco "Bifo" Berardi, April 15, 2022
(Originally published in Italian on NOT (April 12th, 2022), translated by Tommaso Campagna and Laurence Scherz @INC) The Precipice – Ukraine’s Inter-White War Is Just the Beginning: Welcome to the Geopolitics of Chaos By Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi This is not the time of Your judgment, Francis punctuated, addressing God from the empty Square on Easter [...]
By Maria van der Togt, April 14, 2022
Mark Deuze is Professor of Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam in The Netherlands. In light of current events, he initiated a series of Zoom interviews with Ukrainian (and East European) journalists working in Ukraine. Below you can find the first two interviews. Or you can watch them on Mark Deuze’s YouTube account: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrAM_FOAyARuhku_HHVRFgQ. [...]
By Svitlana Matviyenko, April 12, 2022
March 29 – April 12, 2022 Today is the 48th day of war. For last two weeks our region has been hit several times: Khmelnytsky, Slavuta, Shepetivka, and Starokostantyniv. In all these cases, as far as we know, the Russians attacked oil refineries and gas stations to interrupt seasonal agricultural works and destroyed a small [...]
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 [...]
By Geert Lovink, April 9, 2022
(thanks to all that started to contribute to this act of collaborative filtering /geert) Mariupol computer museum destroyed (via Patrice) https://kbd.news/Mariupol-computer-museum-destroyed-1327.html Ukranian Dispatches https://newfascismsyllabus.com/category/contributions/ukrainian-dispatches/ Essay and Zoom interview with Ukranian film maker Oleksyi Radynski (via Alex) https://www.e-flux.com/journal/107/322782/is-data-the-new-gas/ https://www.e-flux.com/journal/55/60303/maidan-and-beyond-part-i/ https://www.volksbuehne.berlin/#/de/veranstaltungen/diskussionsveranstaltung-ukraine-4 (German, English) Russian prosecutor requests harsh sentences for editors of student-run magazine DOXA https://cpj.org/2022/04/russian-prosecutor-requests-harsh-sentences-for-editors-of-student-run-magazine-doxa/ What is the [...]
By Karyna Lazaruk, April 7, 2022
The 3th of April was the day when all of the world had seen the photos, videos and witnesses of the massacre by russian murderers in Bucha. My social networks accounts were full of “sensitive content” that day, the hashtags #bucha and #buchamassacre blocked by platforms because of extreme violence imprinted in these pictures: tortured [...]
