net critique blog by Geert Lovink
By Miriam Rasch, January 10, 2020
Last year Swedish magazine 10TAL published an essay of mine about data mining, the body, and self-knowledge. Now, the English translation has been published too! Read the opening below or click through to the whole text: My body, my traitor We’ve come a long way, baby. From »On the internet nobody knows you’re a [...]
By Inte Gloerich, January 9, 2020
Authors: Gabriele Ferri, Inte Gloerich “The Butler Timeline (BT) is a parallel universe where renowned speculative fiction author Octavia E. Butler engaged in a critical dialogue with researchers in human-computer interaction, shaping the genre of design fiction differently from how it unfolded in our timeline. Here we present a meta-speculation, imagining what could have been [...]
By Sepp Eckenhaussen, January 6, 2020
By Sepp Eckenhaussen. After the violent disintegration of Yugoslavia, a flourishing cultural scene was established in Croatia’s capital Zagreb. The scene calls itself: independent culture. In this book, Sepp Eckenhaussen explores the history of Zagreb’s independent culture through three questions: How were independent cultures born? To whom do they belong? And what is the [...]
By Sepp Eckenhaussen, December 20, 2019
TOD#32: Networked Content Analysis: The Case of Climate Change By Sabine Niederer With a foreword by Klaus Krippendorff Description: Climate change is one of the key societal challenges of our times, and its debate takes place across scientific disciplines and into the public realm, traversing platforms, sources, and fields of study. The analysis of [...]
By Miriam Rasch, December 13, 2019
>> English below Bijdrage aan de Spui25-bijeenkomst De roman en het geschreven woord in tijden van technologisering, ter gelegenheid van de verschijning van Maxim Februari’s laatste boek De onbetrouwbare verteller. (Meer van dit in mijn nieuwe boek Frictie: Ethiek in tijden van dataïsme, dat in mei 2020 verschijnt bij De Bezige Bij.) ‘See, in spite [...]
By Geert Lovink, November 27, 2019
The Mystery of the Non-Finito, or Making Does Not Produce Artefacts by Wim Nijenhuis Text of the speech at the book launch of the INC Critical Makers Readers, Theatrum Anatomicum, Waag, Amsterdam, November 21, 2019 I will elaborate my thesis with a small consideration about the workshop Building Nests, which was led by the Dutch [...]
By Geert Lovink, November 11, 2019
On 18 December 2019 Daniël de Zeeuw will defend his dissertation before a committee of learned colleagues at the University of Amsterdam. He happily invites all of you to attend the ceremony. Time: 11.45 Doors open (ceremony starts at 12.00 sharp), 13.00 Reception. Location: Agnietenkapel, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 229 – 231, 1012 EZ Amsterdam (NL). For [...]
By Valeria Pugliese, November 4, 2019
Out now: Theory On Demand #31- Media Do Not Exist INC is happy to announce the publication of Media Do Not Exist: Performativity and Mediating Conjunctures by Jean-Marc Larrue and Marcello Vitali-Rosati. You can download and read the book here: https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/tod31-media-do-not-exist/
By Geert Lovink, October 16, 2019
By Ruben Brave On October 10/11 2019 I presented our applied science project Make Media Great Again (MMGA) at the Post-Truth Society from Fake News, Datafication and Mass Surveillance to the Death of Trust conference on Malta; an initiative of new media teacher of the University of Malta and founding Director of the Commonwealth Centre [...]
By Barbara Dubbeldam, October 11, 2019
The Amsterdam Design Manifesto by Mieke Gerritzen and Geert Lovink is one of three nominees for the Simon Mari Pruys Prize for design criticism. The Pruys jury, consisting of Kirsten Algera (design historian, critic and editor-in-chief of MacGuffin magazine), Jan Boelen (rector at Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design), and Hicham Khalidi (director of the Van Eyck, [...]
