net critique blog by Geert Lovink
By rachel, November 8, 2010
http://nimk.nl/eng/calendar/digital-folklore-book-presentation-by-olia-lialina Date: November 9th, 2010 Location: Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst // Netherlands Media Art Institute : 264 Keizersgracht, 1016 EV Amsterdam Start: 20.00 (door open 19.30 hrs) Admittance: 2,50 Language: English Glittering star screen savers, images of cute kittens and rainbow gradients, we all know and either love or hate them for their kitsch qualities. [...]
By morgancurrie, November 4, 2010
Felix Stalder made some interesting observations about flat rates on nettime, after attending the Free Culture Forum in Barcelona 28 – 31st of October. The event brought speakers together to debate and strategize free/libre culture and access to knowledge, and last year the FCForum wrote the Charter for Innovation, Creativity and Access to Knowledge. This [...]
By margreet riphagen, November 2, 2010
download the hi-res flyer here. Economies of the Commons 2 website: http://www.ecommons.eu/
By morgancurrie, October 31, 2010
download the hi-res flyer here.
By morgancurrie, October 27, 2010
Please download the English press release here and the Dutch press release here . Economies of the Commons 2 Paying the costs of making things free International conference, seminar and public evening programs Conference dates: 12-13 November 2010 De Balie, Amsterdam Pre-conference: November 11 (Hilversum, in collaboration with the Open Video Alliance) Economies of the [...]
By admin, October 21, 2010
Download the pdf here. The print edition will hopefully be financed soon. About the publication: In the age of international telecommunications, global migration and the emergence of the information economy, how can class conflict and property be understood? Drawing from political economy and concepts related to intellectual property, The Telekommunist Manifesto is a key contribution [...]
By morgancurrie, October 12, 2010
[Image: “William Notman & Son, Building encased in ice after a fire, 65-83 Little St. James Street, Montreal” (1888); courtesy of the Canadian Centre for Architecture]. Archives, libraries and museums are dusting off their collections and giving them public exposure through the use of well crafted blogs. As blogger Geoff Manaugh put it on his [...]
By admin, September 30, 2010
Managing Media Work by Mark Deuze (ed.), with a contribution by Geert Lovink and Ned Rossiter about the Urgent Aphorisms: Notes on Organized networks for the Connected Multitudes. This book explores the ways media industries function, how media professionals manage their careers, how media industries engage with creativity and innovation, and how to make sense [...]
By admin, September 28, 2010
Ute Leimbach from Future Zone Orf.at did an interview with Geert Lovink during the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz from 2 – 11 September 2010. The interview (in German) you can find here: http://futurezone.orf.at/stories/1663738/ Der Netztheoretiker Geert Lovink setzt sich seit den 1980er Jahren kritisch mit neuen Medien und dem Netz auseinander. ORF.at hat mit [...]
By margreet riphagen, September 28, 2010
By Annette Wolfsberger | Credits New Publication: Cultural Bloggers Interviewed Cultural blogging is not (yet) a well-known category within the blogosphere and LabforCulture wanted to find out more. Who blogs? What are they blogging about? Which audiences and communities are being engaged? What are the economic models and how sustainable are they? These are some [...]