net critique blog by Geert Lovink
By Geert Lovink, March 19, 2019
“From where did you receive/research/develop your beliefs? The internet, of course.” -Brenton Tarrant On Friday, March 15th 2019, at 1:40pm, Brenton Tarrant walked into the first of two mosques in central Christchurch and began shooting indiscriminately, leading to the deaths of 50 people. Already there has been speculation about what drove such an attack. For [...]
By Geert Lovink, February 24, 2019
Voorgedragen tijdens de presentatie van De Muur in Den Haag, voormalige Amerikaanse ambasade, 19 februari 2019. Wim Nijenhuis: De lach van Paul Virilio De film over Paul Virilio, Penser la Vitesse, die regisseur Stephane Paoli in 2008 gemaakt heeft in opdracht van Arte France en die in 2012 werd uitgezonden door de ARD, thematiseert het [...]
By Barbara Dubbeldam, January 29, 2019
INC is happy to announce the publication of Theory on Demand #28: Communities at a Crossroads: Material semiotics for online sociability in the fade of cyberculture by Annalisa Pelizza.
By Barbara Dubbeldam, January 23, 2019
INC is happy to announce the publication of Good Data edited by Angela Daly, S. Kate Devitt and Monique Mann. You can download and read the book here: https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/tod-29-good-data/. Thursday January 25th at 17:00 the book will be launched @ Spui25, see you there!
By Barbara Dubbeldam, January 22, 2019
Is the goodness of genomic data – our individual and collective entries in ‘the book of life’ – simply a matter of accuracy and a future in which ‘precision medicine’ averts or cures all ills? In our ‘Not as Good As Gold’ chapter Bruce Baer Arnold and Wendy Bonython argue that notions of goodness are necessarily conflicted, contested, and thus require more thought. Goodness encompasses questions about dignity (something valorized by philosophers such as Aristotle, Kant, Rawls and Nussbaum) rather than promises of a glorious genomic future based on population-scale data collection.
By Barbara Dubbeldam, January 16, 2019
Good Data edited by Angela Daly, S. Kate Devitt and Monique Mann will be published by INC in January 2019. The book launch will be 24 Januari @ Spui25. In anticipation of the publication, we publish a series of posts by some of the authors of the book. “Moving away from the strong body of critique of [...]
By Barbara Dubbeldam, January 11, 2019
Good Data edited by Angela Daly, S. Kate Devitt and Monique Mann will be published by INC in January 2019. The book launch will be 24 Januari @ Spui25. In anticipation of the publication, we publish a series of posts by some of the authors of the book.
By Barbara Dubbeldam, January 7, 2019
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 [...]
