net critique blog by Geert Lovink
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 [...]
By Geert Lovink, October 14, 2024
Editorial Team: Flóra Barkóczi, Geert Lovink, Áron Lődi, Diana McCarty, Zsolt Miklósvölgyi and János Sugár Download conference program booklet here: Metaforum_Handout_Full_2024 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 [...]
By INC Team, October 12, 2024
Europeans must unite against Elon Musk’s influence. If you are in the EU or a supporter of its values, we urge you to sign this petition to ban his platform X. Please sign the petition on change.org here. Your name and data will not be published. More info and updates on the campaign website. The [...]
By Eke Rebergen, October 12, 2024
By now, everyone knows that the normally smooth functioning world of information and communication is not to be trusted or taken for granted. Designers and researchers devise methods, protocols, checks and regulations to somehow ward off the inherent possibility of technology-enhanced evil. An entire industry of design ethics and (digital) security has emerged that not [...]
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 [...]
