net critique blog by Geert Lovink
By Franco "Bifo" Berardi, April 10, 2024
HOW WILL WE SURVIVE? A month ago The DESERTER began https://francoberardi.substack.com Il DISERTORE started a month ago and recently exceeded one thousand subscribers. IL DISERTORE was born out of my intellectual desperation, but I would like it to become a point of reference for those who are fleeing away, reminding that when you escape you [...]
By Geert Lovink, March 24, 2024
Join us for an afternoon with talks, performances, bites and drinks. The Art & Spatial Praxis research group at Rietveld/Sandberg, coordinated by Patricia de Vries, is delighted to invite you to the launch of the publication of Plot(ting) on April 17th from 14:30 to 19:00 at the Rietveld Academie, Fedlev Building, Room FL101. Rooted in [...]
By admin, March 13, 2024
The Institute of Network Cultures is proud to present the first book by former INC intern Morgane Billuart. It is based on her INC Longforms about the wider context of menstruation apps. Published by Set Margins’ in Eindhoven (NL): Morgane Billuart Cycles, the Sacred and the Doomed Inquiries in Female Health Technologies In a world [...]
By Geert Lovink, February 28, 2024
HNI Rotterdam/Li-Ma Amsterdam, March 21-22, 2024 Transformation Digital Art 2024 is LI-MA’s eighth annual international symposium on the preservation of digital art. This year it takes place over two days, at two different locations: on Thursday 21 March the symposium will be hosted by Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam and on Friday 22 March it will take [...]
By Geert Lovink, February 8, 2024
By Ivan Netkachev & Roman Solodkov Interinterface is a procedural essay on the ways that dating apps constrain and normalize queer identities of their users. By procedural essay we mean an interactive cybertext with some elements of a 3D exploration game: you can travel through it, interact with the environment, read the textual elements and [...]
By Geert Lovink, February 1, 2024
All Wrongs Reversed™ Workshop on copyleft with Aymeric Mansoux 15.02.2024, 11:00–17:00 Ventilator Bar (OT301, Amsterdam) Free / on donation (~10€) Who owns the things we publish, who gets to copy, change and republish them? And who profits from that—didn’t information want to be free? What is free culture? And what does any of this mean [...]
By Diana Lengua, January 26, 2024
The pervasive blend of floral chemicals is saturating every facet of my experiential existence. I contemplate the multitude of contents I’ve casually watched and it becomes manifest that these sensory experiences have grown into an integral part of my digital fruition. In retrospect, I realise how these videos, absorbed with casual indifference, exert a profound [...]
By Tommaso Campagna, January 25, 2024
Amsterdam heeft te maken met grote tekorten in het basisonderwijs. Ondertussen wordt het voor veel mensen steeds lastiger een passende, betaalbare woning in Amsterdam te vinden. Het aantal leerkrachten dat in Amsterdam woont en werkt, neemt de laatste jaren af. Een toenemend aantal jonge leraren woont nog thuis. De uitdaging om een toekomstbestendige woning te [...]
By Giulia Timis, January 17, 2024
Theory on Demand #51 The Planalto Riots. Making and Unmaking a Failed Coup in Brazil Edited By Lou Caffagni, Isabel Löfgren, Gizele Martins and Paola Sartoretto Historical events often carry an air of uncertainty, like a fog that veils their boundaries. Questions arise about when the historical process leading to a coup d’état, or in [...]
By Chloë Arkenbout, January 17, 2024
Digital Colonialism, unlike its historical counterpart, is not confined to a specific global region; instead, it utilises technology as a tool for exploitation and profit generation. Big Tech giants such as Facebook, Google, and Amazon are at the forefront, capitalising on the extraction of data, turning our private information into profitable advertisements. In addition to [...]
