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net critique blog by Geert Lovink

Piep Knars Krijs Kraak: Open Call for Art Exhibition

By Geert Lovink, August 15, 2022

(Dutch version below) Under the weight of growth and expansion, the city is cracking at the seams, seemingly about to collapse under its own weight. In the process, it’s making all kinds of noises—like an abandoned house that hasn’t been taken care of in years. And like any abandoned old house, the city is haunted. [...]

The Privacy of War

By Kateryna Iakovlenko, July 11, 2022

Photo: Dmytro Shutaiev, (17 March 2021), with Roman Ratushny. For several months I have been monitoring social media feeds looking for views from the war-zone. Not coincidentally, many current soldiers are intellectuals, artists, photographers, music promoters, and cultural activists—people who would never take up arms under other circumstances today are lying in a trench, and [...]

Dispatches from the Place of Imminence, part 11

By Svitlana Matviyenko, July 9, 2022

May 30 – June 20, 2022 Salt disappeared. At the end of May, the shelf at the Silpo supermarket, where it is usually sitting – local or imported – is empty. Tired of answering the same questions, sellers at the market put their hand-made signs upfront: there is no salt – cолі немає. Online, the [...]

Dispatches from the Place of Imminence, part 10

By Svitlana Matviyenko, May 31, 2022

May 9 – 29, 2022 The war did not end on May 9th. That day Russia celebrated the 77th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany with a large-scale military parade in Moscow’s Red Square. To the huge disappointment of the public, there was no promised flying display of the supersonic Tu-160 strategic bombers, nor a so-called “Doomsday” [...]

‘We Are Not Doing Anything Illegal, Why Be Anonymous?’ — Interview with Maxim Kondratiev from Avtozak LIVE

By 11111 &23%#719, May 26, 2022

Maxim Kondratiev is a coordinator of Avtozak LIVE, an independent media that covers protests and the violations of rights in Russia. Avtozak LIVE is mostly active on Telegram, where their channel has almost 51.000 followers. We talked with Maxim in early May via Zoom. He is currently residing in a migration centre in the Netherlands, [...]

The Techno-Utopia of the Grocery Delivery Platforms

By Marco te Brömmelstroet, Letizia Chiappini, and Ying-Tzu Lin, May 18, 2022

Originally published in Dutch on NRC (May 22th, 2022) Premise of the article This article looks at Amsterdam as an illustrative example of our research about digital platforms. Commercial platforms for food and grocery delivery have grown tremendously during the Covid period. Their advertisements and logos are capturing attention everywhere, on ferries, trams and in [...]

INC is hiring an intern

By Chloë Arkenbout, May 15, 2022

The Institute of Network Cultures is looking for an intern with research and development skills Internship period: September 1st, 2022  until Feburary 1st, 2023 (0.6-0.8 fte/3-4 days a week). The Institute of Network Cultures (INC) is a media research center that actively contributes to the field of network cultures through research, events, publications, and online [...]

Tactical Tech – In the loop Ukraine edition

By Maria van der Togt, May 11, 2022

🄸🄽 🅃🄷🄴 🄻🄾🄾🄿Ukraine special edition Tactical Tech is an international NGO that engages with citizens and civil-society organizations to explore and mitigate the impacts of technology on society. Their vision is a world where digital technologies can contribute to a more equitable, democratic, and sustainable society. To enable this change, they investigate how digital technologies [...]

Dispatches from the Place of Imminence, part 9

By Svitlana Matviyenko, May 10, 2022

April 13 – May 8, 2022 If you do not know Russian or if you just focus on the voice’s timbre and the rhythm of this brief conversation, it feels comforting. You’d immediately sense this young woman and man are attracted to one another. They definitely have a bond and, possibly, even a passion. You [...]

Vasyl Cherepanyn on the Aftermath of the Revolutions

By 11111 &23%#719, May 4, 2022

The first edition of the Kyiv Biennial named The School of Kyiv took place in 2015. By adapting, or rather reappropriating the well-known and highly commercial format of the international exhibition, Vasyl Cherepanyn, one of the organizers of the Biennial, sought to reflect the Maidan revolution in a thematic format of education. The school epitomized [...]

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