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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 [...]
By margreet riphagen, May 20, 2011
Call for creative action The Internet is the place where we meet, speak, create, educate ourselves and organize. However, as we are at a turning point in early web history, it could either become a prime tool for improving our societies, knowledge and culture, or a totalitarian tool of suveillance and control. After 15 years [...]
By margreet riphagen, May 18, 2011
By morgancurrie, May 16, 2011
We’re sorry to announce that ‘Text to the Paratext’ with Sean Dockray has been canceled
By margreet riphagen, May 5, 2011
A conference on literacy and publishing in the digital age from 19-21 May. Download the program here. The conventional notion of the book, based on centuries of print, has rapidly grown outdated. Meanwhile the capacity to create digital book-like functions and forms is endless. in a double sense the book is coming unbound, both from [...]
By margreet riphagen, April 28, 2011
By: By jussi.parikka at 27/04/2011 – 06:30 Jussi Parikka’s blog Amsterdam based journalist and critic Josephine Bosma’s just published book Nettitudes. Let’s Talk Net Art (2011) tackles the themes of net.art, aesthetics, politics and network culture practices in a great way. Bosma, herself very much an insider to the net art scene since its emergence [...]
April 27, 4:00pm, Rogers Communication Centre, Room 202 Ryerson University, 350 Victoria Street, Toronto, Ontario More information about the seminar you can find here: http://www.yorku.ca/yciss/news/WikiLeaks_The_Politics_of_Exposure.html The purpose of this series of events is to encourage critical dialogue on the phenomena of Wikileaks. We aim to explore the theoretical and discursive tensions inherent in representations of Wikileaks, as well as possibilities [...]
By margreet riphagen, April 19, 2011
Theory on Demand #7 Image, Time and Motion: New Media Critique from Turkey, Ankara (2003 – 2010) Edited by: Andreas Treske, Ufuk Onen, Bestem Büyüm and I. Alev Degim. Design: Katja van Stiphout DTP: Margreet Riphagen Printer: ‘Print on Demand’ Publisher: Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam 2011 ISBN: 978-90-816021-5-0 Download the TOD#7 reader here. About [...]