net critique blog by Geert Lovink
By Geert Lovink, November 27, 2024
12 Dec 2024 18:00 – 20:00, Framer Framed, Oranje-Vrijstaatkade 71, Amsterdam On 12 December 2024 at Framer Framed, System of Systems launches the first two books in their Managing Displacement series: Outsourcing and Extraction. System of Systems is a research project that analyses the bureaucratic, spatial, and technological conditions shaping Europe’s migration landscape. The themes [...]
By INC Team, November 26, 2024
Theory on Demand #54 In/Convenience: Inhabiting the Logistical Surround Edited by Joshua Neves and Marc Steinberg Convenience is the feeling and aspiration that animates our platformed present. As such, it poses urgent techno-political questions about the everyday digital habitus. From next-day delivery, gig work, and tele-health to cashless payment systems, data centers, and policing – [...]
By Maja Korczyńska, November 25, 2024
multidimensionality imperfection instability fluidity In a world where technology redefines our perception of selfhood, identity becomes fluid, fragmented, and constantly evolving. My project, infiniteartist, is a multi-channel simulation that delves into this complexity by exploring alternative versions of identity through digital tools such as algorithms, AI, and generative processes. infiniteartist embraces a multi-faceted approach, transcending [...]
By Geert Lovink, November 12, 2024
I am happy to teach computer history at a fine arts university. Besides, I also work with small kids. Part of my job is to pry phones out of their hands—not the most pleasant part of the day. This is partly because (as with every mandatory intervention) it stirs up more chaos than it prevents. [...]
By Salome Berdzenishvili, November 4, 2024
Жить тяжело и неуютно Зато уютно умирать (Living is difficult and confining, But dying is liberating) The words written above are an excerpt from the song Sudno (Boris Ryzhy) by post-punk band Molchat Doma from Minsk. These words also often loop over the reels on post-Soviet aesthetics found online – the ones of decayed brutalist [...]
By Geert Lovink, October 31, 2024
(Text of the speech by Ágnes Básthy on the first day of Metaforum X, Budapest, October 25, 2024) “‘Krisis’ was originally a medical concept which designated, in the Hippocratic corpus of texts, the moment when the doctor decided whether the patient would be able to survive the disease. Theologians reprized the term to indicate the [...]
By T.V. Team, October 29, 2024
By Tommaso Campagna, October 28, 2024
By Flóra Barkóczi, October 26, 2024
Welcome to MetaForum X, the fourth edition of the MetaForum conference series, taking place in Budapest, Hungary, from October 24-26, 2024. Although this event is not about nostalgia, it is impossible not to reflect on the legacy of the historical MetaForum series. The first three editions between 1994 and 1996, emerged at a time of [...]
By Pure Anna, October 15, 2024
This text is a love letter to Isa, to hyperbass, to XF, to the demoscene, and a reminder that life, in all its complex and technologically mediated glory, is a canvas for radical self-creation and empathy. Isaka Links: Soundcloud Bandcamp Symbios.wiki Instagram Her new EP Elytra drops October 18th on SFX I first encountered Isaka’s [...]
