net critique blog by Geert Lovink
By Geert Lovink, February 8, 2024
By Ivan Netkachev & Roman Solodkov Interinterface is a procedural essay on the ways that dating apps constrain and normalize queer identities of their users. By procedural essay we mean an interactive cybertext with some elements of a 3D exploration game: you can travel through it, interact with the environment, read the textual elements and [...]
By Geert Lovink, February 1, 2024
All Wrongs Reversed™ Workshop on copyleft with Aymeric Mansoux 15.02.2024, 11:00–17:00 Ventilator Bar (OT301, Amsterdam) Free / on donation (~10€) Who owns the things we publish, who gets to copy, change and republish them? And who profits from that—didn’t information want to be free? What is free culture? And what does any of this mean [...]
By Diana Lengua, January 26, 2024
The pervasive blend of floral chemicals is saturating every facet of my experiential existence. I contemplate the multitude of contents I’ve casually watched and it becomes manifest that these sensory experiences have grown into an integral part of my digital fruition. In retrospect, I realise how these videos, absorbed with casual indifference, exert a profound [...]
By Tommaso Campagna, January 25, 2024
Amsterdam heeft te maken met grote tekorten in het basisonderwijs. Ondertussen wordt het voor veel mensen steeds lastiger een passende, betaalbare woning in Amsterdam te vinden. Het aantal leerkrachten dat in Amsterdam woont en werkt, neemt de laatste jaren af. Een toenemend aantal jonge leraren woont nog thuis. De uitdaging om een toekomstbestendige woning te [...]
By Giulia Timis, January 17, 2024
Theory on Demand #51 The Planalto Riots. Making and Unmaking a Failed Coup in Brazil Edited By Lou Caffagni, Isabel Löfgren, Gizele Martins and Paola Sartoretto Historical events often carry an air of uncertainty, like a fog that veils their boundaries. Questions arise about when the historical process leading to a coup d’état, or in [...]
By Chloë Arkenbout, January 17, 2024
Digital Colonialism, unlike its historical counterpart, is not confined to a specific global region; instead, it utilises technology as a tool for exploitation and profit generation. Big Tech giants such as Facebook, Google, and Amazon are at the forefront, capitalising on the extraction of data, turning our private information into profitable advertisements. In addition to [...]
By Agnieszka Antkowiak, January 14, 2024
On the occasion of the Expanded Publishing Fest – 20 Years of INC on the 12th of January 2024 amidst the triple book launch, micro book fair, tactical television and club night there was one more event that took place in the in-between spaces of physical and digital – the first public connection established through [...]
By Sara Nuta, January 11, 2024
Abbey Pusz is an artist, writer, and video creator whose work surveys various iterations of utopian visions. From the promise/potential of digital spaces as an authentically democratic and participatory force to the organization of political movements and the persistent specter of the American Dream, her work both chronicles the lineage of and explores political potential [...]
By Sepp Eckenhaussen, December 21, 2023
On the evening of 12 January, INC is organizing a Micro Book Fair as part of the Expanded Publishing Fest at OT301. In this post, we introduce you to the concept of the fair and the work of each participating publisher. Time: 19:00-21:30 (followed by a club night until 03:00) Publishers: HumDrumPress, Outline, Platform BK, [...]
By Matt Bluemink, December 21, 2023
This is the afterword for Network Notion #1: Semiotics of the End by Alessandro Sbordoni. ‘In a way, we must start at the end.’ Deleuze and Guattari[1] This statement from Deleuze and Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus brings us to a strange conclusion. If we are to start at the end, which way should [...]
