net critique blog by Geert Lovink
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 #3: 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 [...]
By Geert Lovink, June 1, 2020
Internet-related tips for protesters (document in development here) Whether you are protesting in person or working in digital spaces (or both) covering your browsing habits, metadata, and search histories is important. These can be ordered as evidence, or can expose others even months or years later. Even without a court order or direct governmental surveillance, [...]
By Geert Lovink, May 29, 2020
The Exception of the Minorities: Pandemic and Subversion A Dialogue with Federico Zappino by Lorenzo Petrachi Federico Zappino is philosopher, translator and queer activist. He translated into Italian work of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Judith Butler and Monique Wittig. Among his recent works are Il genere tra neoliberismo e neofondamentalismo (Gender Between Neoliberalism and Neofundamentalism, ed. [...]
By Sepp Eckenhaussen, May 15, 2020
By Tripta Chandola. The essays collected here are based on two decades of engagement with the residents of the slums of Govindpuri in India’s capital, Delhi. The book presents stories of many kinds, from speculative treatises, via the recollection of a thousand everyday conversations, to an account of the making of a radio documentary. [...]
By Miriam Rasch, May 14, 2020
Read an excerpt in English from Frictie over at Eurozine: Seamless design is an important dogma of dataism. Without unpredictable behaviour, however, there’s no data to retrieve. A wholly predictable future is just a continuous present, a tyranny of choices on offer. But returning to our time-honoured language is similarly impossible. What we need is [...]
By Geert Lovink, May 11, 2020
Throughout the years Hackers & Designers have been exploring and imagining different network concepts and networked practices in many ways. Looking back at some of our activities dealing with ‘Network Imaginaries’ we are getting very excited about the upcoming Summer Academy! Without rendering the current events as an opportunity we restructured our annual H&D Summer [...]
