net critique blog by Geert Lovink
By Miriam Rasch, October 4, 2016
‘Why can’t reflection be more jubilant?’ This phrase from Eduardo Navas’ Spate may serve as an adequate line to proudly introduce our new publication series Deep Pockets. ‘Jubilant reflection’ on networks, media activism, the political economy of the social, and other INC topics is what we’re after with this new line of print-on-demand and electronic [...]
By Leonieke van Dipten, September 26, 2016
‘As I walk towards my home at night a wet surface of the pavement glitters in all shades of black, reminding me that I am surfing. Not just on the street, but on the endless glassy surface of the interface of this world. This is where I belong. The warmth of the reflection entangles me, [...]
By Nadine Roestenburg, July 15, 2016
The New Aesthetic and Art: Constellations of the Postdigital is an interdisciplinary analysis focusing on new digital phenomena at the intersections of theory and contemporary art. Asserting the unique character of New Aesthetic objects, Contreras-Koterbay and Mirocha trace the origins of the New Aesthetic in visual arts, design, and software, find its presence resonating in [...]
By Inte Gloerich, July 7, 2016
The Deep Web evokes images of an underworld that cannot bear the light of day. Yet this hidden realm contains an estimated 96% of all the content to be found circulating online. The first international Crypto Design Challenge shout out to artists, designers, researchers and visionaries to dive in and create new images of the [...]
By Miriam Rasch, June 30, 2016
Now available: The Ends of the Internet by Boris Beaude, translated from the French by Patrice Riemens. If you are interested in a copy, fill out the form below. About this publication: *The Ends of the Internet* is an investigation into all the reasons why the Internet, which has been with us for over thirty [...]
By Miriam Rasch, June 7, 2016
Internet on the Outstation provides a new take on the digital divide. Why do whole communities choose to go without the internet when the infrastructure for access is in place? Through an in-depth exploration of the digital practices occurring in Aboriginal households in remote central Australia, the authors address both the dynamics of internet adoption [...]
By Miriam Rasch, May 25, 2016
In this fifth volume of his ongoing investigations, Dutch media theorist and internet critic Geert Lovink plunges into the paradoxical condition of the new digital normal versus a lived state of emergency. There is a heightened, post-Snowden awareness; we know we are under surveillance but we click, share, rank and remix with a perverse indifference [...]
By Inte Gloerich, May 17, 2016
Kaartverkoop hier 26 mei 2016 Brakke Grond, Amsterdam Deuren open: 10:00 uur Start programma: 10:30 uur Sprekers: Mischa Andriessen (redacteur van Terras en muziek- en beeldend kunstcriticus) Hadjar Benmiloud (Vileine) Stephanie Afrifa (Nation of Overthinkers, Kunstlinie Almere Flevoland) Lisa-Maria van Klaveren (Utopia van de Kunstkritiek) Anna Kruyswijk (Nationaal Archief, Boijmans van Beuningen) Ruurd Mulder (Lectoraat [...]
By Vera van de Nieuwenhof, April 18, 2016
Your privacy is under pressure. Sometimes it appears as if the computer knows exactly what our needs are, or what we are looking for. We click, we like and app to our hearts content. The Internet knows exactly who we are and gives us all kinds of free information. But behind the smart products and [...]
By Vera van de Nieuwenhof, April 12, 2016
By Dylan Degeling Conversations on publication platforms are slowly turning into a dying breed. With several popular publication platforms and blogs permanently closing up their comment-sections, the means by which people engage with a publication on the web is changing (Elis, 2015; Gasthuis, 2013; Sweney, 2016). Discussions through comments, currently the most used conversation method [...]
