net critique blog by Geert Lovink
By Geert Lovink, June 29, 2021
Thinking about the current state of platforms, I’m reminded of Mark Fisher’s articulation of capitalist realism, the idea that we don’t imagine or build alternatives to capitalism because we can no longer envision a world without it. Big tech, in a few short years, has managed to instill within the public a similar state of [...]
By Geert Lovink, June 24, 2021
Graag nodigen we je uit voor het symposium CODE NL-D, over het terugwinnen van onze digital agency: https://impakt.nl/code-nld/ Het symposium vindt online plaats deze zaterdag middag 26 juni 2021 van 14:00 – 17:30 uur. Connected Digital Europe (CODE) NL-D is een samenwerking tussen IMPAKT [Centrum voor Mediacultuur], (NL) en School of Machines, Making & Make-believe [...]
By Maurice Dharampal, June 17, 2021
In early May 2021, the internet lost a controversial yet vital part of its history. Seemingly out of the blue, video hosting platform LiveLeak shut down. It was a staple website for gore content, especially among millennials or other early internet users, and for its information transparency and unrestricted censorship to citizen journalists, whistleblowers and [...]
By Geert Lovink, June 14, 2021
Initiated by Ellen Rutten at University of Amsterdam and colleagues from Italy and Germany I contributed to the open letter below, signed by Olga Tokarczuk, Judith Butler, Boris Groys, Saskia Sassen, Eva Illouz, Slavoj Zizek and many others: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/open-letter-we-need-new-university-eastern-europe. – With the climate of repression reaching fever pitch in Belarus and Russia, European institutions need [...]
Instagram’s Like Hiding Saga is a PR Stunt: What Facebook’s Darling Hopes You’ll Forget About Social Media Metrics By Ben Grosser In the spring of 2019 Instagram announced to the world that it was going to test the hiding of visible “like” counts within its interface. In the words of Instagram Head Adam Mosseri, he [...]
By Chloë Arkenbout, May 31, 2021
In de driedelige serie The Digitarian Society onderzoekt Tetem samen met mediakunstenaar Roos Groothuizen en gasten van het Institute of Network Cultures, Waag en PublicSpaces wat er nodig is om verder te komen in onze zoektocht naar een veiliger internet. De bewustwording over internet dilemma’s in relatie tot online verslaving, privacy en verantwoordelijkheid groeit; niet [...]
By Maurice Dharampal, May 28, 2021
The pandemic is causing labels to hold out with album rollouts for the time concerts are allowed again. This streamlining of revenue models is quite common but doesn’t sit well with fans. But if there’s one thing this pandemic has shown, is the culture industry’s ability to innovate. Other ways of streamlining business models are [...]
By Shruti Chamaria, May 26, 2021
Cyberia is a poetic provocation in the form of a photographic series that explores infrastructures of Cybercafés in Bangalore. What does it mean to use these overlooked spaces today—as a worker, a client, or simply an artist? These sites composed of passages, objects, and stories—reveal a sense of connection, privacy, self-expression, surveillance, and manipulation. Against [...]
By Inte Gloerich, May 21, 2021
Written by: Gabriele Ferri and Inte Gloerich Ant 1: [Wiggles antennae, wiggles antennae, wiggles antennae.] I bring an interesting message to pass along. Ant 2: [Wiggles, wiggles.] I’m listening. Ant 1: This is something that I’m passing along on behalf of my other sisters in the colony, who received it from another anthill, which received [...]
By Maurice Dharampal, May 20, 2021
‘It’s difficult to write about somebody who is a better writer than you,’ billy woods elucidates. Together with fellow rapper ELUCID, they make up the New York duo Armand Hammer, whose recently released album Haram dotted with lyrical references to literature, Critical Theory, shrewd social and political commentary. As a digital humanities grad student and [...]
