net critique blog by Geert Lovink
By margreet riphagen, June 22, 2009
Cultural Studies: My Creativity Reader: A Critique of Creative Industries My favourite piece in My Creativity Reader: A Critique of Creative Industries -a collection of essays edited by Geert Lovink and Ned Rossiter- is Annelys De Vet’s Creativity is not About Industry: I have nothing smart to say about the creative industry. This might be [...]
By sabine, June 21, 2009
INC’s research intern Dennis Deicke wrote his second book review, of Stefan Weber’s Das Google-Copy-Paste-Syndrome: Wie Netzplagiate Ausbildung und Wissen gefährden. Heise Verlag, Hannover: 2009. The Google-Copy-Paste-Syndrome: How Web-Plagiarism endangers Education and Knowledge, written by Stefan Weber, deals with the influence of the ever-increasing internet use on the prevalent culture of knowledge. Austrian media scholar [...]
By sabine, June 17, 2009
As the INC is preparing for a conference on search engines, titled The Society of the Query, research intern Dennis Deicke is delving deep into search engine theory. His book reviews can be read on the preliminary conference site www.networkcultures.org/query. Dennis has published his first review, which covers David Gugerli’s Suchmaschinen, Die Welt als Datenbank. [...]
By sabine, May 25, 2009
The INC delegation just got back from the Video Vortex event in beautiful Split, Croatia. A big thank you to the organizers for arranging this fruitful conference and exhibition: Dan Oki, Miranda Veljačić, Toni Mešrović, Dinko Peračić and Sandra Sterle, the Film and Video Dept. of the Acadamy of Arts at the University of Split, [...]
By sabine, May 13, 2009
The Video Vortex program has been updated! Check out the updated program here. Video Vortex 4 includes contributions by: Perry Bard, Natalie Bookchin, Maarten Brinkerink, Vito Campanelli, David Clark, Dagan Cohen, Cym and the Aethernauts, Alejandro Duque, Albert Figurt, Stefan Heidenreich, Jasmina Kallay, Sarah Késsene, Lev Manovich, Dalibor Martinis, Gabriel Menotti, Ana Peraica, Valentina Rao, [...]
By margreet riphagen, April 14, 2009
By Urte Jurgaityte Just released in Spanish with contributions from Igor Sádaba [Ed.], Michel Bauwens, Geert Lovink, Fernando Carbajo, César Rendueles and Rubén Blanco, Dimino Abierto. The texts in this booklet show different perspectives about transformations of cooperative forms of creation, dissemination and access to culture. In recent years, the cultural debate has been revitalized [...]
By sabine, April 7, 2009
The Urban Screens reader’s call for paper closes the day after Easter! So for all of you still working on the articles, please keep in mind that we have a styleguide available here. The call for papers is online at: https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/urbanscreens/
By margreet riphagen, March 11, 2009
Het Instituut voor Netwerkcultuur is ‘weekgast’ in de Havana, het weekblad voor studenten en medewerkers van de Hogeschool van Amsterdam.
By sabine, February 24, 2009
INC's founding director Geert Lovink spent the first week of February 2009 at the Critical Theory Emphasis graduate program at UC Irvine, where he gave four talks. Liz Losh, Writing Director of the Humanities Core Course at U.C. Irvine, blogged all of his lectures.
By sabine, February 10, 2009
Following three successful Urban Screens events in Amsterdam (2005), Manchester (2007) and Melbourne (2008), the preparations for an Urban Screens reader have started. This publication is produced by the INC, in collaboration with the University of Melbourne, School of Culture and Communication, and is to be launched in December 2009. Read the call for papers [...]
