net critique blog by Geert Lovink
By Miriam Rasch, August 17, 2020
This summer Eurozine launched their podcast titled Gagarin. I was invited to join Réka Kinga Papp, editor-in-chief- of Eurozine, to talk about my book Frictie and the accompanying Eurozine essay Friction and the aesthetics of the smooth. Listen to the episode over at Eurozine or find it in your podcast app. “What does the worship [...]
By Geert Lovink, August 11, 2020
Agony and the Ecstasy: Zoom Burnout, Teletopics and the Age of Covid by Patrick Lichty The era of Covid lockdown is Zoom-time. Although at the time of this writing, the crest of the first wave is starting to pass, its impact is evident. In over three months of lockdown, stay at home, 24/7 Zoom culture [...]
By Geert Lovink, July 22, 2020
“I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion.” Henry David Thoreau, Resistance to Civil Government. Please check the CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS for the new issue of LAVA – Letters from the Volcano! https://lavaletters.org/ & https://lavaletters.org/call-def.pdf We can’t breathe. After 50 years of neoliberal barbarism – which has accelerated the necrotic [...]
By Inte Gloerich, July 8, 2020
Written by: Pamela Nelson Sewing is an act of mindfulness. When we embroider or engage in other creative activities like painting or sculpting, our perception of time can become distorted and give the illusion of ‘slowing down’, as discussed in ‘The Restructuring of Temporality During Art Making’ by Ariana van Heerden. In a fast paced, [...]
By Geert Lovink, June 27, 2020
After the fifth episode of the Selfies Under Quarantine series, here, at the Institute of Network Cultures, we discussed how such online courses, but also lectures and debates, could make more use of the video essay form. If there is such as thing as the ‘visual turn’ in education (in re: popular culture), away from [...]
By patricia, June 15, 2020
Over the past decade, a growing number of artists and critical practitioners have become engaged with algorithms. This artistic engagement has resulted in algorithmic theatre, bot art, and algorithmic media and performance art of various kinds that thematise the dissemination and deployment of algorithms in everyday life. Especially striking is the high volume of artistic [...]
By Geert Lovink, June 12, 2020
Edited by Geert Lovink and Andreas Treske INC Reader #14 Download it here, as e-pub, pdf or print-on-demand (via Lulu): Video Vortex Reader III: Inside the YouTube Decade What is online video today, fifteen years into its exponential growth? What started with amateur work of YouTube prosumers has spread to virtually all communication apps: an [...]
By Geert Lovink, June 4, 2020
While we’re publishing a lot, here at the Institute of Network Cultures, trying to facilitate critical reflection on the corona crisis with diaries and essays from around the world, we’re also planning a restart of INC so that we’ll have space and resources for new urgent projects and research networks in this corona period/economic crisis. [...]
For the further development of its publication strategy – combining digital and print publications with web-based content and other media – the Institute of Network Cultures is looking for an intern with production and research skills, for an internship with our digital publishing team Internship period: August 31st until December 18th, 2020 (0.8 fte/4 days [...]
I Present You with Myself: Facebook Avatars and Apple Memoji, or a Brief Account of the Evolution of Emoji* By Natalia Stanusch While swiping through Facebook’s people you might know suggestion window, I got genuinely dazed. Among profile pictures of photographed faces, I saw a cartoonish face with exaggeratedly wide-opened eyes and mouth with chopper-like [...]
