net critique blog by Geert Lovink
By Vera van de Nieuwenhof, October 19, 2015
We’re happy to announce the publication of the 10th Network Notebook: The Internet Revolution by Richard Barbrook. It is available online through Issuu, but you can also order your hardcopy here. About this publication: Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron’s The Californian Ideology, originally published in 1995 by Mute magazine and the nettime mailinglist, is the [...]
By Vera van de Nieuwenhof, October 18, 2015
A review (in Dutch) of INC publication The Volkskrant Building: Manufacturing Difference in Amsterdam’s Creative City by Bart Stuart and Klaar van der Lippe of Mister Motley There are still some hardcopy issues available, you can order them or download the digital version here
By Geert Lovink, October 11, 2015
Beyond withdrawal and asylum – an urgent call for European cosmopolitism. By Gérard Wormser Europe’s conservatism and nationalist fallback has ended up in begetting its oposite. Will the Syrian refugees’ exodus result in the policy shift that is necessary lest Europe becomes against its own will the last resort of persecuted populations? Now, billions of Euros [...]
By Inte Gloerich, October 9, 2015
In the past decade the INC has accumulated a wealth of articles, books and essays that are freely available on this website. In collaboration with the PublishingLab, the INC is looking to increase the usability and functionalities of its platform. To do so in the best way possible, we have put together a survey regarding reading habits and [...]
By Vera van de Nieuwenhof, October 8, 2015
Between Control and Emancipation Edited by Lina Dencik, lecturer in the School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies at Cardiff University in the UK, and Oliver Leistert, postdoctoral researcher at the DFG Research Training Group “Automatisms” at University Paderborn, Germany. Geert Lovink has contributed a chapter in collaboration with Ned Rossiter: Network Cultures and the [...]
By Vera van de Nieuwenhof, September 28, 2015
On Friday 25 September the Facebook Liberation Army made fresh calls to arms at the Discovery Festival in the science centre Nemo, Amsterdam. Armed with pamphlets, zines and instructions on how to leave Facebook the resistance came disguised as Mark Zuckerberg. Many new rebels were enlisted in the Facebook Liberation Army and alternatives to social [...]
By Leonieke van Dipten, September 22, 2015
English below Het Instituut voor Netwerkcultuur (HvA) en Domein voor Kunstkritiek brengen in samenwerking met de Boekmanstichting in het voorjaar van 2016 een dubbelpublicatie uit over hedendaagse kunstkritiek. Naast de papieren editie van Tijdschrift Boekman verschijnt bij het Instituut voor Netwerkcultuur een aparte digitale collectie onder de noemer Utopia van de Kunstkritiek. Wij zijn [...]
By Vera van de Nieuwenhof, September 10, 2015
The Institute of Network Cultures presents MONEYLAB#2: ECONOMIES OF DISSENT on Thursday 3 & Friday 4 December 2015 at Pakhuis de Zwijger in Amsterdam– an international symposium hosting artists, activists, programmers and academics that probe, challenge and hack today’s global economy. What political imperatives shape the economy of dissent? What different views on the redistribution [...]
By Leonieke van Dipten, September 8, 2015
In het voorjaar van 2016 zal het tijdschrift Boekman in samenwerking met het Domein voor Kunstkritiek en het Instituut voor Netwerkcultuur een thema wijden aan kunstkritiek. Het podium voor kunstkritiek verschuift steeds meer naar het internet en tegelijkertijd is de amateurcriticus teruggekeerd. Daarnaast lijkt het moderne kunstbegrip waarin autonomie centraal staat, te kantelen. Is er [...]
By Vera van de Nieuwenhof, September 7, 2015
The 10th edition of Discovery science festival (Friday 25 September at Science center NEMO) examines a theme that resounds with the Facebook Liberation Army: Who’s in control? There are continuous threats of man-made systems – the internet, financial markets – to our autonomy. We are a slaves to our unconscious brain. The systems that have [...]
