net critique blog by Geert Lovink
By Agnieszka Wodzińska, March 5, 2021
Part of a series by the Institute for Contemporary Art Research at the Zürich University of the Arts, Aesthetics of the Commons investigates the fruitful intersection between the idea of the commons, and the aesthetics of practices that relate to the concept. Overall, the publication ponders how to enact a shift in academia, arts and [...]
By Geert Lovink, March 4, 2021
Remember Alternate Reality Games? As some observers have pointed out, QAnon definitely feels and functions like an ARG. It’s got open and collective storytelling, multiplatform content, puppet masters, die hard players, hidden clues… a blurry boundary between fiction and reality. Conservatives and progressives like to accuse each other of deficient skills when it comes to [...]
By Sepp Eckenhaussen, March 4, 2021
‘Will the post-corona universe be just another future or something new “to come”?’ – Slavoj Žižek Corona is a reset. A chance to learn. An opportunity to grow. After all: never let a good crisis go to waste. True enough, there’s plenty of injustice in the world to justify a thorough reset. But the question [...]
By Sepp Eckenhaussen, March 2, 2021
Only a few weeks into the first wave of Corona, Zagreb-based artist Ana Kužmanić launched www.artwithoutplace.com to collect testimonies of cultural workers around the world. One year and 45 testimonies later, the contents of the website were bundled and published as a book by Oaza Books. You can order your copy here: http://www.oazabooks.com/?page=books&book=art-without-place. P.s. readers [...]
By Agnieszka Wodzińska, February 17, 2021
Who remembers the first time they heard the term ‘Girl Boss?’ For most, it was around the time founder of the fashion brand Nasty Gal, Sophia Amoruso, published her autobiography ‘#GirlBoss’ in 2014. Since then, the term has grown in popularity to the extreme, creating its own aspirational ‘category’ of woman, archetypal image, and countless [...]
By Geert Lovink, February 17, 2021
The Institute of Network Cultures is looking for an intern with production and research skills Internship period: April 1st until July 1st, 2021 (0.6-0.8 fte/3-4 days a week). The Institute of Network Cultures (INC) is a media research center that actively contributes to the field of network cultures through research, events, publications, and online dialogue. [...]
By Agnieszka Wodzińska, February 5, 2021
“30 years. 18-hour days. Not 8-hour days, 10-hour days, 12-hour days, 18-hour days. If anybody thinks you can be successful without paying that price, you’re wrong.” – Grant Cardone If you have an account on any of the most prominent social media platforms, you are already somewhat familiar with ‘hustlers’. Sure, you might have seen [...]
By Chloë Arkenbout, February 3, 2021
Many concepts ‘meet’ each other in the practices of online sex work; physical & digital, pleasure & power, intimacy & publicness, body & labour. Not to forget how gender, race, class, ethnicity, and sexuality intersect in this type of work. How can we engage in meaningful ways with these complexities and entangled realities? INC member, [...]
By Inte Gloerich, February 2, 2021
(re)programming is a season of close encounters with world-class thinkers debating key issues, from infrastructure and energy to community and AI, hosted by the Spanish author Marta Peirano and live-streamed every third Monday of the month. Concept As a growing population is sharing an ever-shrinking planet, we have found ourselves at an existential crossroads: do [...]
By Tommaso Campagna, February 1, 2021
Theory on Demand #40 COVID-19 from the Margins. Pandemic Invisibilities, Policies and Resistance in the Datafied Society Edited by Stefania Milan, Emiliano Treré and Silvia Masiero COVID-19 from the Margins: Pandemic Invisibilities, Policies and Resistance in the Datafied Society stems from the blog ‘COVID-19 from the Margins’, launched in May 2020 to amplify the [...]
