net critique blog by Geert Lovink
By Dunja Nešović, April 6, 2022
PrtScn: The Lazy Art of Screenshot Edited by Dunja Nešović The zine PrtScn: The Lazy Art of Screenshot gathered more than 30 authors with an aim to collectively explore the omnipresent, yet somehow often overlooked, screenshot as a contemporary digital image and practice that fuses the human and machinic boundaries of authorship and vision. As [...]
By Karyna Lazaruk, April 5, 2022
Project by: Karyna Lazaruk and Marc Tuters (project leaders), with Borka Balogh, Marta Ceccarelli, Emillie de Keulenaar, Kiara Khorram, Devin Mitter, Son Nguyen, Stijn Peeters, Emilie Schwantzer, Cemal Tahir and Alexander Teggin. Warfakes is a popular Russian language telegram channel that, along with its English language website Waronfakes.com, emerged in the first few days of [...]
By Chloë Arkenbout, April 5, 2022
How can we build our future on the legacies and claims of those who, yesterday as today, have been plunged into existential hardship by the ecological-economic complex? And how can we make such struggles a source of inspiration for a common cause? THEME The Berliner Gazette (BG) 2022 project AFTER EXTRACTIVISM launches its intervention at [...]
By Geert Lovink, April 4, 2022
Open Letter Dear friends and colleagues, I want to write important thoughts for me. It is very difficult for me to talk about culture and art at a time when war is going on. The official Russian authorities call what is happening in Ukraine “a special military operation by Russian servicemen to protect Ukraine from [...]
By Geert Lovink, April 2, 2022
Alexander Isavnin: The Russian Sovereign Internet and Number Resources https://labs.ripe.net/author/alexander-isavnin/the-russian-sovereign-internet-and-number-resources/ Witnessing U: Testimonials from the front line https://toneelmakerij.nl/en/voorstellingen/witnessing-u/ The Last Days Of Mariupol’s Internet https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2022/03/31/the-last-days-of-mariupols-internet/ Drones for Ukraine https://eyesonukraine.eu/ Meet the Secretive US Company Building an ‘Unbreakable’ Internet Inside Russia https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3n5e9/russian-internet-lantern UKRA))i((NATV to platforma informacyjna, telewizja internetowa https://zbieram.pl/ukrainatv Elena Kostyuchenko’s reports on the war in [...]
By Sepp Eckenhaussen, March 30, 2022
UKRA))i((NATV is an information platform, internet tv and centre for intercultural integration created by a group of Ukrainian, Polish and all-language people, organisations and institutions. They are embedded in the cultural and media environment of Krakow, and have equipment, a studio and a small dynamic team that has been working intensively since the beginning of [...]
By Svitlana Matviyenko, March 29, 2022
March 21-29, 2022 On the 33rd day of the Russia-Ukraine war, I continued receiving media and speaking requests to address a so-called “crisis in Ukraine.” It is almost surprising, or maybe not at all, that Russian propaganda is so pervasive that it imposes a false caution on someone who’d think that despite the ongoing full-scale [...]
By Svitlana Matviyenko, March 23, 2022
I am an Assistant Professor of critical media analysis at Simon Fraser University in Canada where I teach political economy of information. I am a co-author of Cyberwar and Revolution: Digital Subterfuge of Global Capitalism, which is a Marxist theory of cyber warfare and militarism. I am in Ukraine currently, in the midst of the [...]
By Laurence Scherz, March 22, 2022
This spring, Domein voor Kunstkritiek and De Nieuwe Garde are organizing an adventurous lab on digital art criticism and essays, in which they will dive into online publication forms together. A lab for Dutch and Flemish cultural journalists, essayists, and makers with a passion for experimentation who want to look (far) beyond the linear text. [...]
By Svitlana Matviyenko, March 21, 2022
March 12 –20, 2022 The air raid siren is a complex event. At night, when the streets under the curfew regime are empty of cars and random night wanderers, all subtle sounds compose a balanced but vibrant sonic texture like a rustle or whisper. Suddenly – and it is always suddenly, no matter whether you [...]
