net critique blog by Geert Lovink
By Tommaso Campagna, October 15, 2021
3PM I arrive at the airport in Entebbe, Uganda. My cousin has been living with her partner in Kampala, the capital for the last three years. They both work as economists for energy companies that offer rural people low-interest loans to purchase solar panels. I immediately notice that the air has a different smell [...]
By Chloë Arkenbout, October 12, 2021
The act of idolizing has long surpassed just hanging some posters on your bedroom wall. With the rise of the internet, and especially Web 2.0, fandom has extended onto our screens—allowing fans from all over the world to always be in touch with each other. When, during the Black Lives Matter protests last year, the [...]
By Geert Lovink, October 6, 2021
Ben je een jonge onderzoeker en/of producer op het gebied van digitale cultuur en experimenteel uitgeverschap? Heb je een kritische houding en affiniteit met educatie en kennisoverdracht? Ben je gemotiveerd om praktische en productionele taken uit te voeren voor de ontwikkeling van onze website, maar ook nieuwe initiatieven te ontwikkelen en een gezamenlijke visie op [...]
By Natalie Dixon, September 28, 2021
In this blog series, INC research fellows Natalie Dixon and Klasien van de Zandschulp explore a burgeoning intimate surveillance culture in neighbourhoods across the world. At the core of this research is a flourishing network of surveillance technologies produced by Silicon Valley and perfectly tailored to a vigilant and paranoid home-owner. This matters. Because being [...]
By Dunja Nešović, September 27, 2021
Twenty participants of Post-precarity Autumn Camp, jointly organized by the Platform BK, Institute of Network Cultures, and Hotel Maria Kappel have gathered in Hotel Maria Kappel in Hoorn to commence a five-day journey into the intricacies of overcoming the late-capitalist challenges artists encounter in aims to keep their practice alive and prosperous. The topic of [...]
By Morgane Billuart, September 16, 2021
Passive income. Not to dream of labor. Retiring at 30. Drop-shipping. E-commerce. Digital products. You’ve probably already heard of these words, terms, life goals. They have been referred to quite a lot over the past years, marketed as one of the many fast and concrete strategies to generate money and expand your wealth. To me, [...]
By Geert Lovink, July 27, 2021
I click on a weblink that prompts me to join a room. The room is dark and drenched in a purple hue: blue and red hexagonal tiles rotate along the perimeter. Large text reads “WELCOME TO THE WWWUNDERKAMMER.” Up ahead is a massive VR headset with portals in the place of apps revealing a map [...]
By Agnieszka Wodzińska, July 19, 2021
Theory on Demand #41 Pandemic Exchange How Artists Experience the COVID-19 Crisis Edited by Josephine Bosma News reports on the Covid-19 pandemic seldom include how the virus and the societal lockdowns affect artists. A lively circuit of cultural events, meetings, and exhibitions has come to an almost complete stop, leaving artists often not just with [...]
By Klara Debeljak, July 13, 2021
During the first lockdown in March 2020, my whole family freaked out. We thought it was the end of the world. My brother traveled home to Europe from California where he was studying and for the first days, he wore a mask that I had never seen before. It was shaped like a bird’s beak, [...]
By Natalie Dixon, July 1, 2021
In this blog series I explore a burgeoning intimate surveillance culture in neighbourhoods across the world. At the core of this research is a flourishing network of surveillance technologies produced by Silicon Valley and perfectly tailored to a vigilant and paranoid home-owner. This matters. Because being watched by the state is one thing, but being [...]
