net critique blog by Geert Lovink
By Tommaso Campagna, June 11, 2025
Call for Contributions – Imagining the Internet(s): A Collaborative Glossary Deadline: 15 September 2025| Submit: a 100 word pitch and a bibliography What concepts help us study how the internet has been imagined—historically, culturally, or politically? From ‘cyberspace’ to ‘network ideology’, from ‘technotopia’ to ‘vernacular web’, critical terms have long shaped how we understand digital [...]
By Lea Sande, June 9, 2025
On 25 February, Kino Šiška in Ljubljana hosted the opening conference of tactics&practice, Aksioma’s annual transdisciplinary programme dedicated to contemporary investigative art, society and new technologies. Entitled Are You A Software Update?, this 16th edition, curated by Nora O’ Murchú, Socrates Stamatatos, Janez Fakin Janša and Neja Berger, questions how software structures our sociality, what [...]
By Peter Lunenfeld, June 5, 2025
Los Angeles, June 4, 2025 Dear Geert— More and more, I see what’s happening in the USA as a war on the young that they don’t even know they are fighting, much less how much they are losing. Much has been made of MAGA edgelords and the “vibeshift” towards conservatism, especially among young men. Perhaps [...]
By Salome Berdzenishvili, May 19, 2025
Institute of Network Cultures · Girlboss, Through the Years This is the first episode of Thinking Face Emoji, a podcast miniseries by The Hmm, in collaboration with the Institute of Network Cultures, and supported by the Creative Industries Fund NL. Hosts Margarita Osipian and Sjef van Beers from The Hmm, are joined by Sam Cummins, [...]
By Dmitry Muravyov, May 16, 2025
In 2025, ARTez Press published Auto-Correct: The Fantasies and Failures of AI, Ethics, and the Driverless Car by Maya Indira Ganesh. I talked with Maya about the book — why and how technologies fail, the meaning of ethics within and outside technologies, and the ambivalence that comes with irony (as well as critique). The interview [...]
By Tommaso Campagna, May 12, 2025
[Repost, original event page here ] Girl Online 🎀 Symposihmm #1 Performing as a girl online can be a powerful way to subvert the algorithm. And thanks to the whiplash of the girlboss epidemic, a meeker and cute self-image is now taking hold. Trends like girl math, babygirl, and girl dinner reflect a tendency across genders to self-infantilise, a growing resistance [...]
By Sepp Eckenhaussen, May 6, 2025
Reworking the Situationist heritage and applying it to our time, many of the approaches presented here extend beyond the city and physical environments into the virtual dimensions of digital socialities, identifying new forces of power and potential sources of emancipation. At a time when it has become fashionable to celebrate the looming apocalypse as post- [...]
By Klara Debeljak, April 29, 2025
12th of March, 2025 Finished watching the film No Other Land and it’s raining outside. It is a documentary on the destruction of the occupied West Bank villages of Masafer Yatta. The documentary—a collaboration between Palestinian Basel Andra and Israeli Yuval Abraham—was conspicuously awarded an Oscar earlier this year. It depicts the undying strength and perseverance [...]
By Klaudia Orczykowska, April 22, 2025
“I at once grew closer to it and more skeptical of it.”–Mike Pepi I’m trying to make sense of the complex systems that accompany my experience of reality–everyday & everywhere–and I mean two things in particular: internet and my (human) (sub- and conscious) mind. In an age dominated by digital platforms, we find ourselves [...]
By Eke Rebergen, April 15, 2025
The work in the current exhibition ‘We Work Like Peasants While AI is Out There Painting and Writing Poetry’ at POST Nijmegen (NL) is hopeful. The hope is, according to Lieke Wouters’ introduction in the accompanying brochure, that we might all become Luddites. “Ever since the Luddite uprising was put down in 1810s, working people [...]
