net critique blog by Geert Lovink
By Klara Debeljak, November 6, 2023
A famous inscription above the temple of Apollo in Delphi reads: “Know thyself, you, that walks down this hallway.” It implies responsibility and the weight of agency. And that’s the thing: I always felt responsible for my actions, opinions and tastes. It is what I was always taught, probably because it encouraged a more ethical [...]
By Arianna Caserta, November 4, 2023
In an ocean of perfectly constructed auto narrations, users draft an ode to the ” non-readable” in search of the only method to reappropriate the entropic and spectral side of the Internet. I remember scrolling through Yung Lean‘s Instagram profile meant trying to decode the rules of a universe nobody knew anything about. Pages full of [...]
By Geert Lovink, October 16, 2023
We, Krisis Publishing, an independent publishing and curatorial platform, based in Brescia, Italy, are proud to introduce our new publication Black Box Cartography. A Critical Cartography of the Internet and Beyond by Vladan Joler. With texts and contributions by Vladan Joler, Kate Crawford, Matteo Pasquinelli, Daphne Dragona and SHARE Lab. The book will be published [...]
Download the pdf of the book here: https://shop.meatspacepress.com/products/eaten-by-the-internet-digital-download-ebook-and-pdf Eaten by the Internet: Power and the Future of the Digital Society, edited by Corinne Cath, published by Meatspace Press, online, 2023. Our world is eaten by the Internet. This means that those who control the Internet control the bounds of public speech, economic production, social cohesion, [...]
By Geert Lovink, October 11, 2023
Program: https://impakt.nl/festival/2023/programme/ On Wednesday 1 November, activist and former U.S. Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning will be present in Utrecht to participate in the opening of the IMPAKT Festival 2023: Our Terms, Our Conditions.Chelsea E. Manning is a technologist and network security expert, analyst, and consultant whose actions showed the world that the conscience of [...]
By Klara Debeljak, October 9, 2023
Going Hybrid!, the research project dedicated to investigating the medium of publishing in its hybrid forms by subverting notions of what a publication is, concludes its two year cycle by launching a final event; a live-publication, a transcript, a book, a conversation, on the 10th of November, between 13h-17h. We welcome you to join the [...]
By Klara Debeljak, October 2, 2023
From the 21st to the 25th of August 2023, Projekt Atol hosted the Omsk Social Club and a program of workshops and lectures for the 18 participants who came together in Ljubljana to Live Action Role-Play, aiming to build and inhabit an alternative world in the context of a changing planetary ecology. Welcome to ARIA, [...]
By Tommaso Campagna, September 20, 2023
By Carolina Pinto, September 5, 2023
All the other directions we can go: alternative media networks and their infrastructures by Carolina Valente Pinto This book analyses the values and processes that characterise DIY (do it yourself) digital infrastructure, relating networked initiatives to broader tensions in contemporary alternative media production, namely between ideology and practice in cultural and artistic networked initiatives. [...]
By Natasha Chuk, September 4, 2023
The affordances, limitations, and architectures of space, proximity, interaction, and playfulness come together through unlikely radio frequencies in the experimental works of Shanghai-born, New York City-based interdisciplinary artist Viola He’s recent creative experiments. While an artist-in-residence at Wave Farm—working from a studio space situated on a 29-acre property in the northern Catskills of upstate NY—He [...]
