net critique blog by Geert Lovink
By Geert Lovink, June 4, 2020
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 [...]
Verschenen op 6 mei 2020 bij De Bezige Bij, Amsterdam, Frictie: Ethiek in tijden van dataïsme van Miriam Rasch, onderzoeker bij het Instituut voor Netwerkcultuur. Dataïsme is het geloof dat alles te vertalen is in data. Data leggen de wereld vast en maken haar beheersbaar. Maar voor wie en met welk doel? De onderliggende aannames [...]
By Donatella Della Ratta, May 8, 2020
Episode 1 with introduction: https://networkcultures.org/blog/2020/04/09/selfies-under-quarantine/ Italian translation: https://not.neroeditions.com/selfie-dalla-quarantena/. Episode 2: https://networkcultures.org/blog/2020/04/16/selfies-under-quarantine-episode-2/ Episode 3: https://networkcultures.org/blog/2020/04/23/selfies-under-quarantine-students-report-back-to-rome-episode-3/ Episode 4: https://networkcultures.org/blog/2020/05/01/selfies-under-quarantine-students-report-back-to-rome-episode-4/ Video Episode: https://networkcultures.org/blog/2020/06/27/video-episode/ Episode 5 (final episode): DIGITAL IS THE NEW ‘NORMAL’ In collaboration with Danielle, Shaina, Briana, Jackie, Marta, Gabriella, Sydney, Elena, Sophia and Natalia As this is the ending week of our semester, we go for lighter readings: Human Contact is Now a Luxury Good I just [...]
By Geert Lovink, May 6, 2020
A new INC essay, Coronavirus and Web 2.0: Philosophical Questions and Answers by Lorenza Saettone, now available, in Italian, here as pdf and here as an e-pub file. Thanks a lot to Tommaso Campagna for the design and technical work. Italian philosopher Lorenza Saettone and I started corresponding at the end of my ‘Sad by [...]
