net critique blog by Geert Lovink
By Miriam Rasch, June 20, 2014
The Institute of Network Cultures is proud to announce the publication of Radical Tactics of the Offline Library by Henry Warwick, available in print, ePub and PDF format. Order or download a copy here. Be sure to check out the wonderful animation video below made by Anne Douris, which tells the story of offline libraries [...]
By Miriam Rasch, June 10, 2014
Nu verschenen: Society of the Query Magazine: 10 artikelen over zoeken op het web. Ga op je tablet naar query.dmci.hva.nl en kies voor ‘Voeg toe aan beginscherm’ om het magazine gratis te lezen. Er is ook een pdf beschikbaar: Society of the Query Magazine: 10 artikelen over zoeken op het web. De INC Reader Society of the [...]
By admin, May 19, 2014
In the May 22nd issue of The New York Review of Books, Robert Darnton wrote an article whose title proudly proclaims that a world digital library is coming true. [1] I would argue that this is true, but not for any of the reasons or purposes he discussed. In the process of making these claims [...]
By patricia, May 8, 2014
INC PRODUCTION, DEVELOPMENT and COMMUNICATION INTERNSHIP The INC is hiring an intern with demonstrated production skills. The intern will be involved in the new INC research project MyCreativity#2, and assists with general office operations. Start date: September 1 – December 19 2014 with a possible extension to February 1 2015. 0.8 FT (4 days a [...]
By Miriam Rasch, April 23, 2014
</Institute of Network Cultures is proud to present INC Reader #9, Society of the Query: Reflections on Web Search, edited by René König and Miriam Rasch. Order a copy of the print book, read online, or download the pdf for free! Read the Introduction to the book here. About the book: Looking up something online [...]
By Miriam Rasch, April 22, 2014
‘Waarom laten we het nadenken over onze toekomstige samenleving over aan politici? Waarom bestaat er geen serieuze internationale top voor intellectuelen?’ Met die inzet vond 18 april de ‘G8 van de filosofie’ plaats in de Beurs van Berlage in Amsterdam. Zygmund Bauman, Peter Sloterdijk, Aziz Al-Azmeh, Benjamin Barber, Damon Young, John Gray, Markus Gabriel en [...]
By Daniel de Zeeuw, April 16, 2014
I recently visited Mediamatic Factory in order to preview its “Faceless” exhibition, which included a tour by the curator. Parallel to the exhibition, various interesting events took place, amongst which: a Facial Weaponization Suite and Computer Security workshop, and an evening of lectures by various artists and theorists. Not untimely We all remember [...]
By Miriam Rasch, March 27, 2014
Bijdrage van Mieke Gerritzen, directeur MOTI, Museum of the Image in Breda Het gaat goed met het Stedelijk Museum. Het museum trekt massa’s bezoekers, en dat is voor de Amsterdamse gemeente en het museum zelf waarschijnlijk het belangrijkste doel. De badkuip heeft zijn status bereikt, het Museumplein is dé toeristentrekplijster van Amsterdam en het maakt [...]
By Geert Lovink, March 3, 2014
Published February 28th, 2014, in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Germany (original here). Unauthorized translation by Florian Cramer. Hans Magnus Enzensberger: Defend Yourselves! For those who aren’t nerds, hackers or cryptographers and have better things to do than keep up with the pitfalls of digitalization every hour, there are ten simple rules to resist exploitation and surveillance: [...]
By Miriam Rasch, February 17, 2014
Read online, download the PDF or order a print copy at Lulu! Transcoding the Digital: How Metaphors Matter in New Media by Marianne van den Boomen is a material-semiotic inquiry into the constitutive role of metaphors in our daily encounters with computers and networks. While interface concepts such as desktop and windows are easily recognized [...]
