net critique blog by Geert Lovink
By Henry Warwick, September 22, 2024
Some 15 years ago, Sean Dockray, Geert Lovink, and myself were discussing online libraries and my research into offline libraries. There were many possibilities for the future of online libraries. Sean, as the founder and director of AAAARG.ORG, the now defunct online library, was pretty positive about it all, even as he himself was begin [...]
By Carolina Pinto, September 17, 2024
This year, we celebrate 20 years of the influencer — with the first influencers being moms, through the highly popular ‘00s mommyblog. Thanks to the mommyblog, parenthood was able to become, and often still is, a “lively, public conversation”. For many mothers, the blogosphere became a support network. However, looking at the mom-o-sphere today, it [...]
By August Kaasa Sundgaard, September 12, 2024
For the past couple of years, a certain type of animation has haunted me. It’s an AI-manipulated image that brings its human subjects to life by simulating speech, lip movements, and facial expressions. In these ‘talking head animations’ or ‘digital puppets,’ the background remains static while only the subject’s face moves or changes. The [...]
By Geert Lovink, September 4, 2024
The Institute of Network Cultures is looking for interns with research and development skills Internship period: February 1st until July 1st, 2025 (4-5 months, 3/4 days a week). The starting and closing dates can be a bit flexible. The overall period will be at least four and maximum six months with a possibility to extend the [...]
By K Woods, September 2, 2024
I feel like there should be a word to describe the feeling you get when discovering something is immensely popular and yet you have never heard of it. This is one of the feelings I got when reading Valentina Tanni’s latest book, Exit Reality: Vaporwave, Backrooms, Weirdcore and Other Landscapes Beyond the Threshold. There are [...]
By Geert Lovink, July 20, 2024
Call for Participation Embracing the legacy of the three MetaForum conferences (1994-96), MFX continues to highlight the urgent issues of the times with a reflection on contemporary crisis surfing. The theme of PermaCrises examines the persistent breakdown of our political, societal and cultural systems, capturing the extremity of this situation through its continuality and pervasiveness. [...]
By Chloë Arkenbout, July 11, 2024
Trigger warning: various topics where trigger warnings are often used are discussed in this article, such as sexual assault, car crashes, trauma and PTSD, misogyny, the genocide of Palestinian people and burn-out. “Survival is the ability to swim in strange water.” – Ocean Vuong When in January of 2022 the Dutch news exploded because of [...]
By Tommaso Campagna, July 1, 2024
CLIMATE TRIBUNAL The Fossil Fuels Industry on Trial By Paolo Cirio The Climate Tribunal wants to shift perception regarding climate change by exposing historical, scientific, political-economic, and criminal evidence of how the fossil fuel industry is accountable for having caused climate change. This publication features texts and research from the activist and artistic work on [...]
By Jordi Viader Guerrero, June 26, 2024
On Tuesday October 1, 2024 from 10:00 to 16:00, the AHK Culture Club (Amsterdam) in collaboration with the Artificial Worlds Research Group will host AI_ANXIETY, a workshop inviting early career scholars in the humanities and artists to reflect on the institutional politics of AI research. The workshop will be facilitated by researchers Dmitry Muravyov, Aarón [...]
By INC Team, June 17, 2024
On Monday June 24, 2024 8pm, Spui25 (Amsterdam) there will be a lecture by Alan Finlayson (University of East Anglia, UK), moderated by Marc Tuters (Mediastudies, UvA). The lecture will look at how the disruptive affordances and practices of global digital culture relate to political reconfigurations symptomatic of a broader crisis of liberalism. Alan Finlayson [...]
