net critique blog by Geert Lovink
By Geert Lovink, May 16, 2024
SRC003 – SIDEQUEST (ENCORE LABEL, AVOCADO IBUPROFEN AND VIRGILE FLORES) Encore Label is an art label inspired by the contemporary meta-landscape as a complex site of loss and potential. Their aim is to interlace musical, visual and cultural components to create clusters of knowledge and aesthetics. Through its projects, Encore is building an ever-expanding, collectible, [...]
By INC Team, May 14, 2024
THEORY ON DEMAND #52 Archiving Activism in the Digital Age Edited by Daniele Salerno and Ann Rigney The archiving of social movements has long contributed to their cultural impact. Given the wide availability of digital tools for the making and storing of records, ‘autonomous’ archiving is today becoming a significant part of the activist toolkit [...]
By INC Team, May 6, 2024
INC Zine Falling Through On January 18th, 2024 Agnieszka Antkowiak, Morgane Billuart and Klara Debeljak came together in Prague, CZ to present their research in the form of a three-part performance lecture at the Display Gallery Space. The performative lectures danced around speculative narrative building and being (a girl) online, questioning truth and violence.
By Geert Lovink, May 4, 2024
BOOK RELEASE The Planalto Riots: Making and Unmaking a Failed Coup in Brazil The unsuccessful coup d’état of 8 January 2023 in Brasilia, Brazil, where thousands of rioters stormed and sacked government buildings is a notable example of the scale of extreme-right mobilizations made possible in large part through social media, and executed by masses [...]
By Sven Lütticken, May 3, 2024
Marina’s intellectual practice truly constituted a form of praxis. Her work was always embodied and situated in a commonly sensed world. For all its conceptual rigour, it was as aesthetic as it was theoretical; it would be a grave mistake to paint Marina as some niche theorist who happened to specialize in writing about value [...]
By Tommaso Campagna, April 25, 2024
By Ruben Stoffelen, April 25, 2024
Dietary practices and the digital landscape have always been entangled with one another. It seems like the visual practice of posting your food has existed as long as the affordance of posting photos online has existed, with heavily filtered pictures of plates and their contents being ubiquitous on almost any social media platform. Think of [...]
By INC Team, April 24, 2024
By INC Team, April 23, 2024
Daniël de Zeeuw: A combination of genuine concerns and moral panics over AI (often fueled by the tech moguls themselves) has reached a new high in recent years, particularly with the introduction of ChatGPT by OpenAI. For some it represents the specter of the singularity hanging like an evolutionary cloud over humanity; while others sense [...]
By Franco "Bifo" Berardi, April 10, 2024
HOW WILL WE SURVIVE? A month ago The DESERTER began https://francoberardi.substack.com Il DISERTORE started a month ago and recently exceeded one thousand subscribers. IL DISERTORE was born out of my intellectual desperation, but I would like it to become a point of reference for those who are fleeing away, reminding that when you escape you [...]
