net critique blog by Geert Lovink
By Geert Lovink, September 15, 2022
Ten years ago I began writing a book. It was going to be called Power/Sharing and would pick up on my previous book Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software. It was a turbulent time: the occupy movement, M15 and the indignados movement, the protests in Tunisia and Egypt, protests against legislation called SOPA/PIPA, [...]
By Maisa Imamovic, September 13, 2022
The Psychology of the Web Developer, Reality of a Female Freelancer By Maisa Imamović Underneath the user interface of any website—be it simple or complex—lurks the web developer’s struggle with money, prestige, and power. An ever-lasting race to the top, never not working. Yet what are these unseen costs of being a traditional web developer, [...]
By Geert Lovink, September 8, 2022
Invitation for ‘Out of Place’ Inaugural Lecture by Patricia de Vries Gerrit Rietveld Academy, September 29, 2022, 4-6PM The newly appointed Gerrit Rietveld Academy research professor (‘lector’) and former INC researcher Patricia de Vries will present her inaugural lecture at the start of the academic year 2022–2023. In this lecture, she will elaborate on the [...]
By Geert Lovink, August 15, 2022
From: tatjanaseitz@hotmail.com We can finally announce the schedule for the forthcoming workshop, ‘Agre After Techno-Utopianism’, to be held at the University of Siegen, Germany/hybrid, 1-2 September. We will hold two paper sessions on ‘Agre as a Philosopher’ and ‘Capture and Capitalism’, with contributions from a range of scholars. In addition, we have a number of [...]
(Dutch version below) Under the weight of growth and expansion, the city is cracking at the seams, seemingly about to collapse under its own weight. In the process, it’s making all kinds of noises—like an abandoned house that hasn’t been taken care of in years. And like any abandoned old house, the city is haunted. [...]
By Kateryna Iakovlenko, July 11, 2022
Photo: Dmytro Shutaiev, (17 March 2021), with Roman Ratushny. For several months I have been monitoring social media feeds looking for views from the war-zone. Not coincidentally, many current soldiers are intellectuals, artists, photographers, music promoters, and cultural activists—people who would never take up arms under other circumstances today are lying in a trench, and [...]
By Svitlana Matviyenko, July 9, 2022
May 30 – June 20, 2022 Salt disappeared. At the end of May, the shelf at the Silpo supermarket, where it is usually sitting – local or imported – is empty. Tired of answering the same questions, sellers at the market put their hand-made signs upfront: there is no salt – cолі немає. Online, the [...]
By Svitlana Matviyenko, May 31, 2022
May 9 – 29, 2022 The war did not end on May 9th. That day Russia celebrated the 77th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany with a large-scale military parade in Moscow’s Red Square. To the huge disappointment of the public, there was no promised flying display of the supersonic Tu-160 strategic bombers, nor a so-called “Doomsday” [...]
By 11111 &23%#719, May 26, 2022
Maxim Kondratiev is a coordinator of Avtozak LIVE, an independent media that covers protests and the violations of rights in Russia. Avtozak LIVE is mostly active on Telegram, where their channel has almost 51.000 followers. We talked with Maxim in early May via Zoom. He is currently residing in a migration centre in the Netherlands, [...]
By Marco te Brömmelstroet, Letizia Chiappini, and Ying-Tzu Lin, May 18, 2022
Originally published in Dutch on NRC (May 22th, 2022) Premise of the article This article looks at Amsterdam as an illustrative example of our research about digital platforms. Commercial platforms for food and grocery delivery have grown tremendously during the Covid period. Their advertisements and logos are capturing attention everywhere, on ferries, trams and in [...]
