net critique blog by Geert Lovink
By INC Team, June 17, 2024
On Monday June 24, 2024 8pm, Spui25 (Amsterdam) there will be a lecture by Alan Finlayson (University of East Anglia, UK), moderated by Marc Tuters (Mediastudies, UvA). The lecture will look at how the disruptive affordances and practices of global digital culture relate to political reconfigurations symptomatic of a broader crisis of liberalism. Alan Finlayson [...]
By Chloë Arkenbout, June 11, 2024
MyCy is an emerging on|offline social network tackling our (toxic✌️) relationship with social media. While Big Tech divides us into money-making data points, they want to create spaces for real connections, knowledge exchanges and creative flourishing! They are hosting a workshop series, please find all the information below. — In workshops and skillshares we will [...]
By Geert Lovink, June 4, 2024
SYNTHETIC VISION/IMAGES OF POWER Truth, Evidence, Labour & Knowledge in the Age of AI Dates: 27 & 28 June 2024 Venue: Framer Framed | Oranje-Vrijstaatkade 71, 1093 KS Amsterdam Organisers/Conveners: Francesco Ragazzi + Donatella Della Ratta + Rocco Bellanova + Rebecca Stein We are thrilled to invite you to the conference Synthetic Vision / Images [...]
By Giulia Timis, May 23, 2024
On the 18th of April, we were invited to hold a workshop for the Photography & Society Master’s students at KABK, in the Hague. Being the first workshop I did as part of THE VOID team (a very ominous way of describing oneself, as a student pointed out later), I was excited to be there. [...]
By Geert Lovink, May 16, 2024
SRC003 – SIDEQUEST (ENCORE LABEL, AVOCADO IBUPROFEN AND VIRGILE FLORES) Encore Label is an art label inspired by the contemporary meta-landscape as a complex site of loss and potential. Their aim is to interlace musical, visual and cultural components to create clusters of knowledge and aesthetics. Through its projects, Encore is building an ever-expanding, collectible, [...]
By INC Team, May 14, 2024
THEORY ON DEMAND #52 Archiving Activism in the Digital Age Edited by Daniele Salerno and Ann Rigney The archiving of social movements has long contributed to their cultural impact. Given the wide availability of digital tools for the making and storing of records, ‘autonomous’ archiving is today becoming a significant part of the activist toolkit [...]
By INC Team, May 6, 2024
INC Zine Falling Through On January 18th, 2024 Agnieszka Antkowiak, Morgane Billuart and Klara Debeljak came together in Prague, CZ to present their research in the form of a three-part performance lecture at the Display Gallery Space. The performative lectures danced around speculative narrative building and being (a girl) online, questioning truth and violence.
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
