net critique blog by Geert Lovink
By Miriam Rasch, March 11, 2015
The INC is proud to present Digital Tailspin: Ten Rules for the Internet After Snowden. Michael Seemann published his book Das neue Spiel after a succesful crowdfunding campaign last year. The 10 rules or strategies which he formulates have been translated and updated for this Network Notebook edition. Order a paper copy or download the [...]
By jessvanzyl, March 10, 2015
Attention without feeling is only a report – Mary Oliver Was Plato right when he said that writing would only give us the semblence of wisdom by telling us many things without teaching us to use it? As any first time googler knows, an unrefined question results in an avalanche of search results – information [...]
By margreet riphagen, February 12, 2015
MOTI is the museum of the image; it is thé museum for visual culture. By focusing on visual culture MOTI wants to show and explain the dynamic world of the image, given that we get to experience visual culture everyday. With that purpose MOTI presents exhibitions, symposiums, publications, events and collaborations. The Crypto Design Challenge [...]
By Geert Lovink, January 29, 2015
“Cyberselfish/a critical romp through the terribly libertarian culture of high-tech”, which I have nicknamed “That Damned Book” aka TDB, came out in the year 2000. It’s been more than a little disconcerting that TDB turns out to still have relevance, as did short pieces I wrote such as “How the Internet Ruined San Francisco” (in [...]
“Cyberselfish” 15 years after publication Part II: Where am I going and where have I been The complex truth behind how I got into writing about technology and writing about it the way that I did. The truth behind this is complicated but it finally seems time to explain how it -really- all happened. I [...]
Paulina Borsook should be considered California’s first generation net critics, writing a decade before Carr, Lanier, Keen, Turkle and Morozov took the center stage and mainstreamed the genre. Much like the scattered initiatives and individuals such as Bad Subjects, Steve Cisler, David Hudson and Phil Agre (just to list a few random names), Paulina Borsook [...]
By patricia, January 26, 2015
This Friday we present the Digital Publishing Toolkit at the Transmediale Festival in Berlin. This publication is part of the Digital Publishing Toolkit research project. The Toolkit is meant for everyone working in art and design publishing. It provides hands-on practical advice and tools, focusing on working solutions for low-budget, small-edition publishing. Editorial scenarios include art and [...]
By margreet riphagen, December 23, 2014
The last year within the Digital Publishing Toolkit research project, Hogeschool van Amsterdam and Hogeschool Rotterdam together with various designers and developers, collaboratively worked on the EPUB From Print to Ebooks: a Hybrid Publishing Toolkit for the Arts. This Toolkit is meant for everyone working in art and design publishing. No specific expertise of digital technology, [...]
By Geert Lovink, December 7, 2014
Dear friends, To support students’ hunger strike, I initiated a reading action in the past few days next to the hunger strike camp in the Occupation Zone. Hong Kong is cold and windy now. But many young people brought their books and read quietly together for hours. The Occupation is now over 70 days, and [...]
By Miriam Rasch, November 6, 2014
The INC was at the Elevate Festival in Graz, an amazing gathering of creative and artistic, engaged and activistic people who discuss and dance almost 24/7 – changing the world one hack, poem or tune at a time. I took part in two panels: Reality is the Next Big Thing and Media & Technology. On [...]
