net critique blog by Geert Lovink
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 INC Team, 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 INC Team, 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 INC Team, 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 [...]
By morgancurrie, September 27, 2010
There are two large events in early October related to open cultural archives and sustainability of the cultural commons. Both of these should be a potent convergence of international talents assessing the vanguard of open culture. The first is the Open Video Conference, a massive shin dig of programmers, video artists, hackers, theorists, and economists [...]
By margreet riphagen, September 20, 2010
The book *Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia* (2010, The MIT Press) by Joseph Reagle is now available. A brief description is included below as well as a link to the blog announcement. There, comments can be left, follow the links to the book’s webpage which includes the foreword, preface, introduction, notes and bibliography; [...]
By morgancurrie, September 9, 2010
Eric Kluitenberg is a well-traveled theorist, writer, and lecturer who has produced media events in The Netherlands, Moscow, and Estonia, and also currently heads the media program at De Balie, a cultural and political hotbed in Amsterdam. I’ve had to the luck to attend some of Eric’s events, such as 2010’s Electrosmog fest, and witness [...]
