net critique blog by Geert Lovink
By margreet riphagen, July 18, 2011
Institute of Network Cultures News The Institute of Network Cultures wishes you a great summer! We are closed from the 22nd of July and back on the 22nd of August. In this newsletter you can read more about: Networks Without a Cause, A Critique of Social Media, by Geert Lovink (forthcoming February 2012) Video Vortex [...]
By margreet riphagen, July 15, 2011
Proposal for a research network, a series of events and a reader Concept: Geert Lovink (Institute of Network Cultures/HvA, Amsterdam) and Korinna Patelis (Cyprus University of Technology, Lemasol) Summary The aim of this proposal is to establish a research network of artists, designers, scholars, activists and programmers who work on ‘alternatives in social media’. Through [...]
By margreet riphagen, July 7, 2011
JessyCom (working title) The JessyCom project will continue the Miscommunication Technologies series of works, following Miss Information, deadSwap, YOU NEVER LISTEN TO ME!?, and Thimbl. Miscommunication Technologies is an ongoing project by Dmytri Kleiner in collaboration with the Telekommunisten Network. Dmytri also wrote the book Telekommunist Manifesto in collaboration with INC. Miscommunication Technologies employ satire [...]
By margreet riphagen, June 27, 2011
Networks Without a Cause, A Critique of Social Media by Geert Lovink (forthcoming January 2012) BOOK Author: Geert Lovink Publisher: Polity Press 2012 Design: Studio Leon Loes With the vast majority of Facebook users caught in a frenzy of friending’, ‘liking’ and ‘commenting’, at what point do we pause to grasp the consequences of our [...]
By morgancurrie, June 22, 2011
Geert Lovink at the launch of Theory on Demand books #1 through #4 Margreet Riphagen is the Institute of Network Culture’s project manager and the editor of the Theory on Demand book series. Here she explains TOD project’s background and how it operates as action-oriented research – and also proof the exploding possibilities for publishing [...]
By Silvio Lorusso, June 20, 2011
The publication overview is now available in EPUB format. This release represents an experiment on employing open standards for INC digital publishing. The catalogue includes INC Reader series, Studies in Network Cultures, Network Notebooks, Theory on Demand and some miscellaneous titles. Download EPUB from here.
By morgancurrie, June 9, 2011
Matthew Stadler has written a detailed day-in-the-life story in Design Observer at his innovative publishing studio…part printing press, part community event project, part hybrid store front business that, here’s hoping, may soon become a settled model of what bookmaking could look like. The entity calls itself modestly Publication Studio, founded by Stadler, former editor of [...]
By Silvio Lorusso, June 8, 2011
At the following links you can find all the Theory on Demand readers published till now. In addition, several other readers by the INC are available for browsing and free download. In the next days the catalogue will be updated with the missing documents. INC’s bookshelf on Scribd. INC’s bookshelf on Issuu. About Scribd: Scribd [...]
By Silvio Lorusso, May 27, 2011
The Espresso Book Machine allows to print a book in minutes. It’s perfect for self-publishing because one can print as many copy as he or she needs. When a book is printed it may be stored in the database so customers from all around the world can buy prints of it. One can also print [...]
By margreet riphagen, May 26, 2011
By Sophie Krier 25th of May 2011 http://www.sophie-krier.blogspot.com/ Yesterday I moderated the Book by Design session at the Unbound Book Conference, organised the Institute of Network Cultures. The setting of the session was the book as it evolves today, unbound from its traditional format, content, production and use parameters. New territories are said to emerge [...]
