net critique blog by Geert Lovink
By Geert Lovink, October 10, 2024
Location: Building 1, Level A, Room 21 (Theatre), Bruce (ACT), Australia More information: https://networkcultures.org/events/platform-blues-one-day-conference-at-university-of-canberra/ Free entrance but please register here: https://events.humanitix.com/platform-blues Opening: 10:00 – 10:15am Welcome – Julian.Knowles (Dean of the UC Faculty of Art & Design), Geert Lovink and Denise Thwaites Session 1: 10: 15 – 11:15am Hiding in and from the internet: Avoidance and Dissociation [...]
By Henry Warwick, October 7, 2024
Part 1: https://networkcultures.org/blog/2024/09/22/henry-warwick-the-slow-cancellation-of-online-libraries/ We’re in an interesting juncture where smaller libraries are easily transported (I have a USB drive that will hold 64GB of data that is literally the size of my thumbnail.) These are available in 128GB as well. The problem is, the “hero” level systems like UBUweb / libgen / sci-hub / etc. [...]
By Tommaso Campagna, October 1, 2024
INC Reader #18 Tactical Media Reader Common Tools for Common Struggles Edited by Chloë Arkenbout, Tommaso Campagna, Sepp Eckenhaussen and Geert Lovink Activists, artists, and social movements take on a multitude amount of simultaneous urgencies, from the climate crisis, war, and genocide to housing crises, economic recession, and endemic fake news. We know that these [...]
By August Kaasa Sundgaard, September 30, 2024
I found myself staring at a computer screen, my face blurred and tracked by a green rectangle that followed me everywhere I moved. Behind the screen, a pre-recorded video showed similar rectangles over other people’s faces, next to the bold caption: “SHOCKING FOOTAGE OF A 25-YEAR-OLD BEING KIDNAPPED FROM A MUSIC FESTIVAL IN ISRAEL.” This [...]
By Henry Warwick, September 22, 2024
Some 15 years ago, Sean Dockray, Geert Lovink, and myself were discussing online libraries and my research into offline libraries. There were many possibilities for the future of online libraries. Sean, as the founder and director of AAAARG.ORG, the now defunct online library, was pretty positive about it all, even as he himself was begin [...]
By Carolina Pinto, September 17, 2024
This year, we celebrate 20 years of the influencer — with the first influencers being moms, through the highly popular ‘00s mommyblog. Thanks to the mommyblog, parenthood was able to become, and often still is, a “lively, public conversation”. For many mothers, the blogosphere became a support network. However, looking at the mom-o-sphere today, it [...]
By August Kaasa Sundgaard, September 12, 2024
For the past couple of years, a certain type of animation has haunted me. It’s an AI-manipulated image that brings its human subjects to life by simulating speech, lip movements, and facial expressions. In these ‘talking head animations’ or ‘digital puppets,’ the background remains static while only the subject’s face moves or changes. The [...]
By Geert Lovink, September 4, 2024
The Institute of Network Cultures is looking for interns with research and development skills Internship period: February 1st until July 1st, 2025 (4-5 months, 3/4 days a week). The starting and closing dates can be a bit flexible. The overall period will be at least four and maximum six months with a possibility to extend the [...]
By K Woods, September 2, 2024
I feel like there should be a word to describe the feeling you get when discovering something is immensely popular and yet you have never heard of it. This is one of the feelings I got when reading Valentina Tanni’s latest book, Exit Reality: Vaporwave, Backrooms, Weirdcore and Other Landscapes Beyond the Threshold. There are [...]
By Geert Lovink, July 20, 2024
Call for Participation Embracing the legacy of the three MetaForum conferences (1994-96), MFX continues to highlight the urgent issues of the times with a reflection on contemporary crisis surfing. The theme of PermaCrises examines the persistent breakdown of our political, societal and cultural systems, capturing the extremity of this situation through its continuality and pervasiveness. [...]
