OUT NOW! This Can’t be the Place

By Ruben Stoffelen, May 11, 2026

This Can’t be the Place: Alternative Theories of the Internet is the latest INC reader featuring a selection of INC Longform’s from the past five years. You can read it online, download it as a PDF, or order it for free at home.

OUT NOW! Fragments of Tactical Media

By Tommaso Campagna, May 8, 2026

Fragments of Tactical Media is the new INC reader part of the Etherport series. You can read it online, download it as a PDF, or order it for free at home.

Announcement: WORLDPLAY at the Commons Hub (June 7-13, 2026)

By Rok Kranjc, May 4, 2026

Our times are marked not just by a crisis of facts, but a crisis of reality production. Oligarchs, platforms, reactionary movements and attention entrepreneurs have learned to stage fantastic parallel worlds, exploit all manners of anxiety and alienation, and scale their fictions as power, while the once grander fictions of capitalism and democracy are becoming [...]

In Search of the Cannibal Internet

By Doreen Rios, April 29, 2026

I recently finished Joshua Gooch‘s Capitalism Hates You: Marxism and the New Horror Film, where the author looks at contemporary horror movies and argues that monsters work like mirrors. They reflect whatever sociopolitical anxiety is boiling underneath—economic precarity, environmental collapse, the feeling that the whole system wants you dead. The index itself works as a [...]

Digital Tribulations 17: Coding Autonomy? Hackfeminism and Free Software in Contemporary Mexico

By Gianmarco Cristofari, April 25, 2026

Interview with Sonia Irene Guzman. The introduction of Digital Tribulations, a series of intellectual interviews on the developments of digital sovereignty in Latin America, can be read here. You can find the entire series here. I met Sonia Irene Guzman — a consultant, academic, and activist in the free software and culture movement and a [...]

Performing Belief, Making Meaning (the DARK TRUTH behind Italian Brainrot Lore)

By George Harry James, April 25, 2026

The Westerplatte memorial in Gdańsk on Poland’s Baltic coast marks the site where WWII began with a naval assault in September 1939. The day I visited in September 2025 happened to be the same day that Russian drones were shot down over Poland, marking Moscow’s first overt incursion into NATO territory since its full-scale invasion [...]

Leaving TikTok: Body Interface

By Laura Subirats, April 22, 2026

No care. No self. Just optimisation and the endless scroll. Scroll, #cleanlook. Scroll, #fitness. Scroll, #GRWM. Scroll, #OOTD. Scroll, skinny. Scroll, intermittent fasting. Scroll, high-protein. Scroll, perfect skin. Scroll, cottage cheese. Scroll, glow-up. Scroll, protein powder. Scroll, detox. Scroll, #WhatIEatInADay. Scroll, #food. Scroll, #pilatestok. Scroll, collagen. Scroll, cortisol. Scroll, calorie deficit. Scroll, probiotics. Scroll, affirmations. [...]

Remembering Steve Kurtz – Evening in Amsterdam @Waag, May 7, 2026

By Geert Lovink, April 22, 2026

Remembering Steve Kurtz is an evening dedicated to exploring and honoring the life and work of Steve Kurtz, a pioneer in the fields of bioart and tactical media. As co-founder of Critical Art Ensemble (CAE), an influential collective of radical experimental artists, Kurtz was a frequent visitor to Amsterdam, where he participated in festivals such [...]

Digital Tribulations 16: Intermezzo, The Platformization of the Author in AI-Mediated Writing

By Gianmarco Cristofari, April 17, 2026

The introduction of Digital Tribulations, a series of intellectual interviews on the developments of digital sovereignty in Latin America, can be read here. You can find the entire series here. 1. Towards a Transindividual Authorship Already ten years before ChatGPT, Sui, the author of the manhwa Tower of God, imagined an omniscient conversational bot at [...]

OUT NOW! TOD #61 | The Many Faces of Data Access: Legal and Policy Implications for Research

By Klaudia Orczykowska, April 16, 2026

Theory on Demand #61 The Many Faces of Data Access: Legal and Policy Implications for Research Edited by Jef Ausloos & Siddharth Peter de Souza This last volume in the INC Theory on Demand series provides an interdisciplinary critique of regulation and, in the process, opens the ‘black box’ of technology companies to [...]

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