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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 [...]
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, [...]
