net critique blog by Geert Lovink
By Geert Lovink, May 4, 2024
BOOK RELEASE The Planalto Riots: Making and Unmaking a Failed Coup in Brazil The unsuccessful coup d’état of 8 January 2023 in Brasilia, Brazil, where thousands of rioters stormed and sacked government buildings is a notable example of the scale of extreme-right mobilizations made possible in large part through social media, and executed by masses [...]
By Sven Lütticken, May 3, 2024
Marina’s intellectual practice truly constituted a form of praxis. Her work was always embodied and situated in a commonly sensed world. For all its conceptual rigour, it was as aesthetic as it was theoretical; it would be a grave mistake to paint Marina as some niche theorist who happened to specialize in writing about value [...]
By Tommaso Campagna, April 25, 2024
By Ruben Stoffelen, April 25, 2024
Dietary practices and the digital landscape have always been entangled with one another. It seems like the visual practice of posting your food has existed as long as the affordance of posting photos online has existed, with heavily filtered pictures of plates and their contents being ubiquitous on almost any social media platform. Think of [...]
By Tommaso Campagna, April 24, 2024
By admin, April 23, 2024
Daniël de Zeeuw: A combination of genuine concerns and moral panics over AI (often fueled by the tech moguls themselves) has reached a new high in recent years, particularly with the introduction of ChatGPT by OpenAI. For some it represents the specter of the singularity hanging like an evolutionary cloud over humanity; while others sense [...]
By Franco "Bifo" Berardi, April 10, 2024
HOW WILL WE SURVIVE? A month ago The DESERTER began https://francoberardi.substack.com Il DISERTORE started a month ago and recently exceeded one thousand subscribers. IL DISERTORE was born out of my intellectual desperation, but I would like it to become a point of reference for those who are fleeing away, reminding that when you escape you [...]
By Geert Lovink, March 24, 2024
Join us for an afternoon with talks, performances, bites and drinks. The Art & Spatial Praxis research group at Rietveld/Sandberg, coordinated by Patricia de Vries, is delighted to invite you to the launch of the publication of Plot(ting) on April 17th from 14:30 to 19:00 at the Rietveld Academie, Fedlev Building, Room FL101. Rooted in [...]
By admin, March 13, 2024
The Institute of Network Cultures is proud to present the first book by former INC intern Morgane Billuart. It is based on her INC Longforms about the wider context of menstruation apps. Published by Set Margins’ in Eindhoven (NL): Morgane Billuart Cycles, the Sacred and the Doomed Inquiries in Female Health Technologies In a world [...]
By Geert Lovink, February 28, 2024
HNI Rotterdam/Li-Ma Amsterdam, March 21-22, 2024 Transformation Digital Art 2024 is LI-MA’s eighth annual international symposium on the preservation of digital art. This year it takes place over two days, at two different locations: on Thursday 21 March the symposium will be hosted by Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam and on Friday 22 March it will take [...]
