net critique blog by Geert Lovink
By Gianmarco Cristofari, February 3, 2022
On Monday 17th, I got myself ready for some pleasant Zoom fatigue. At 9.30 am CET (2.30 pm in India) I joined three hours and half roundtable on feminist and intersecionalist perspectives on platformization. During five high-quality presentations, I learned about the increasing permeation of platformization in India’s informal economy, care work, and more. I [...]
By Dunja Nešović, January 20, 2022
The Institute of Network Cultures (INC) invites all designers, artists, writers and web-surfers (if there are any left) to submit their visual and written works created via or inspired by screenshots! In the upcoming hybrid publication PrtScn: The Lazy Art of Screenshot, INC wants to collaboratively explore the omni-present, yet somehow often overlooked screenshot as [...]
By Chloë Arkenbout, December 24, 2021
The Institute of Network Cultures is looking for an intern with research and development skills Internship period: February 1st until July 1st, 2022 (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 dialogue. [...]
By Tommaso Campagna, December 17, 2021
Theory on Demands #42 Radical Housing: Art, Struggle, Care Edited by Ana Vilenica Housing space is a crucial locus of social reproduction, as it is a place where countless acts of care that sustain our lives take place. Yet, capital has forced its way into our homes, making them a battleground. Art is embedded and [...]
By Dunja Nešović, December 14, 2021
On Monday, the 6th of December, Spui25 organized a panel event How Do Platforms Reshape Cultural Industries? that gathered Thomas Poell, Anne Helmond, David B. Nieborg and Jeroen de Kloet in order to discuss the topics of the upcoming book Platforms and Cultural Production by Poell and Nieborg. Appropriately, this event took place online via [...]
By Tommaso Campagna, December 10, 2021
We are re-posting here the call for participation for the Meme Data Sprint organized by the Crisis Memes project. How are memes deployed in times of crisis and collective trauma? Which new affective and political imaginaries emerge from COVID-19 and climate change memes? And how can they invite reflection or incite action on these global [...]
By Geert Lovink, November 29, 2021
Hauntology of Metadata WhatsApp presents itself to us as a service that belongs to us. The sent images, the videos, the messages are encrypted for my privacy because they belong to me. But a single glitch can reveal the WhatsApp’s gaze lingering behind its interface. Instead of seeing WhatsApp, I can see WhatsApp-me, a single [...]
By Geert Lovink, November 12, 2021
Update 2: On Saturday November 27, 2021 the Amsterdam riot police used violence to evict the Hotel Motel squat, after peaceful demonstration outside and a protest manifestation on Leidseplein the evening before. Politically responsible for this is the Green-Left local government and its major Halsema, who signed off on the eviction. Update 1: Excellent review [...]
By Agnieszka Wodzińska, November 6, 2021
Illustrators, designers and other creatives gathered in a skatepark in Breda last month to learn from each other and discuss the realities of working in precarious conditions where disciplines merge, creativity flows, and we all negotiate ways to stay afloat – financially and emotionally. What came out of the two-day event? Gathering energy The spacious [...]
By Geert Lovink, November 2, 2021
This is the second public lecture in the series by Recipes for a Technological Undoing, an extracurricular programme at the Sandberg Instituut. Abeda Birhane will share how systems of algorithmic classification, ordering, and prediction work to impose legibility on inherently complex, dynamic, and fluid aspects of human nature. Departing from embodied and enactive cognitive sciences, [...]
