net critique blog by Geert Lovink
By Sepp Eckenhaussen, December 21, 2018
Historians tend to define fascism in terms of its historical manifestations, sometimes warning not to (over)use it in contemporary contexts. Yet, in the past few years, the world has seen the rise to power of figures like Trump, Duterte, Orban, and Bolsonaro, the stunning impact of the Alt-Right movement, and the Cambridge Analytica-scandal. Unsurprisingly, [...]
By Sepp Eckenhaussen, December 17, 2018
Silicon Plateau is an art project and publishing series that explores the intersection of technology, culture and society in the Indian city of Bangalore. Each volume of the series is a themed repository for research, artworks, essays and interviews that observe the ways technology permeates the urban environment and the lives of its inhabitants. The project [...]
By Sepp Eckenhaussen, November 29, 2018
On November 23rd 2018, Pim van den Berg published Execute Order 66: How Star Wars Memes Became Indebted to Fascist Dictatorship on the INC website. In line with The Case Against the Jedi Order, Pim’s text is critical of the politics of Star Wars meme culture. It was read about 3700 times and caused controversy on [...]
By Barbara Dubbeldam, November 28, 2018
“The long-held idea of images as proof of reality vanished. Washed away by manipulative practices of image production our hyper-visual media streams have become highly subjective and emotional. Authenticity claims to be the new challenge while power structures shift and users become creators.” On Friday 23 November, Hackers & Designers, together with Froh! organized a [...]
By Geert Lovink, November 20, 2018
By Isabel Löfgren (Stockholm) The October 2018 presidential elections in Brazil saw the rise of an extreme-right candidate due to several strategies, but there are equally many counter-movements that took place in the electoral period. One of these counter-movements is the action #MarielleMultiplica which went viral after a series of street protests for human rights, [...]
By Barbara Dubbeldam, November 15, 2018
On November 10 the Institute of Human Obsolescence (IoHO) founded by artist and activist Manuel Beltrán, organized a discussion in the context of the Data Production Labor series to investigate the hidden dynamics behind our data work. There were three installations on show that visualized data labor in different ways. IoHO is an artistic research [...]
By Geert Lovink, November 15, 2018
Hierbij presenteert het Instituut voor netwerkcultuur met trots de herpublicatie van De Muur (Uitgeverij 010, 1984), geschreven door Donald van Dansik, Jan de Graaf en Wim Nijenhuis met foto’s van Piet Rook van de Berlijnse Muur. Hier vind je de pdf en hier de e-pub. Met dank aan Leonieke van Dipten (Shanghai) voor de productie. Inleiding [...]
By Kelly Mostert, November 9, 2018
On November 2 Kennisland organised a networking event in their “Out of Office” format on open access. A screening of the documentary Paywall: The Business of Scholarship took place which focuses on the current state of Open Access publishing and showcases some fierce proponents of open publishing. One of the highlights in the documentary are [...]
By Inte Gloerich, October 30, 2018
I went to Radical Networks in Berlin (19-21 October 2018). It was a very inspiring experience and I took notes feverishly for 3 days. The program was diverse and inclusive, in-depth but accessible to non-techies. I worked out the notes of the talks that I found especially interesting a bit further and added references below. [...]
By Miriam Rasch, October 11, 2018
‘Ana Peraica’s Culture of the Selfie: Self-Representation in Contemporary Visual Culture is an outstanding source for art researchers and students, photographers, humanists, and media theorists. It contributes to diverse fields including but far from limited to cultural studies and psychology. It reaches beyond a chronological overview of analyzed phenomena and analyses the contemporary condition through [...]
