net critique blog by Geert Lovink
By Geert Lovink, May 11, 2020
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 [...]
By Donatella Della Ratta, May 1, 2020
Episode 1 with introduction: https://networkcultures.org/blog/2020/04/09/selfies-under-quarantine/ 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/ Italian translation: https://not.neroeditions.com/selfie-dalla-quarantena/. Episode 4: LOVE (NOT) AT FIRST SIGHT In collaboration with Danielle, Shaina, Briana, Jackie, Marta, Gabriella, Sydney, Elena, Sophia and Natalia This week we read excerpts from Eva Illouz’s Cold Intimacies. The Making of Emotional Capitalism and watched the video: ‘How Emotions Are Made’ ‘Thought that I was going crazy Just havin’ one those [...]
By Donatella Della Ratta, April 23, 2020
Episode 1 with introduction: https://networkcultures.org/blog/2020/04/09/selfies-under-quarantine/ Episode 2: https://networkcultures.org/blog/2020/04/16/selfies-under-quarantine-episode-2/ Episode 3: LOVE AND SEX IN TIMES OF COVID-19 In collaboration with Danielle, Shaina, Briana, Jackie, Marta, Gabriella, Sydney, Elena, Sophia and Natalia This week’s readings: Excerpts from Eva Illouz’s Cold Intimacies. The Making of Emotional Capitalism and excerpts from Melissa Broder’s So Sad Today Day 44 since the lockdown started in Italy. My Facebook wall is populated [...]
By Donatella Della Ratta, April 16, 2020
‘We wait. We are bored. No, don’t protest, we are bored to death, there’s no denying it. Good. A diversion comes along and what do we do? We let it go to waste.’
By Silvio Lorusso, April 15, 2020
A dispatch from Salvatore Iaconesi, artist and technologist based in Rome [This dispatch, originally published in Italian on the newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore, is part of a series. Read the previous ones here.] We are fragile. Of so many different frailties. The state of quarantine makes us touch the borders of these fragility: economic, [...]
By Silvio Lorusso, April 14, 2020
A dispatch from Lídia Pereira, Portuguese writer and designer based in Rotterdam [This dispatch is part of a series: read the previous ones here.] “I am thinking of all the things that I cannot think about because I cannot feel them because I cannot live them because I live here I am here and despite everything [...]
By Silvio Lorusso, April 13, 2020
A dispatch from Alex Foti, writer and activist based in Milan [This dispatch is part of a series: read the previous ones here.] Nothing can never be the same. Nothing must never be the same. While the former is often repeated by pundits in these weeks of house arrest, the latter really is the assumption that [...]
Dispatch from Alina Lupu, Romanian Artist Based in Amsterdam [This dispatch is part of a series: read the previous one here.] As a generally resistant person, tending to be first and foremost critical of every situation as well as hard to engage in the first stage, I find it fascinating that this reorientation towards online [...]
