net critique blog by Geert Lovink
By Sara Nuta, January 11, 2024
Abbey Pusz is an artist, writer, and video creator whose work surveys various iterations of utopian visions. From the promise/potential of digital spaces as an authentically democratic and participatory force to the organization of political movements and the persistent specter of the American Dream, her work both chronicles the lineage of and explores political potential [...]
By Sepp Eckenhaussen, December 21, 2023
On the evening of 12 January, INC is organizing a Micro Book Fair as part of the Expanded Publishing Fest at OT301. In this post, we introduce you to the concept of the fair and the work of each participating publisher. Time: 19:00-21:30 (followed by a club night until 03:00) Publishers: HumDrumPress, Outline, Platform BK, [...]
By Matt Bluemink, December 21, 2023
This is the afterword for Network Notion #1: Semiotics of the End by Alessandro Sbordoni. ‘In a way, we must start at the end.’ Deleuze and Guattari[1] This statement from Deleuze and Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus brings us to a strange conclusion. If we are to start at the end, which way should [...]
By INC Team, December 21, 2023
The Institute of Network Cultures is Proud to Present its New Publication Series: Network Notion #1 Semiotics of the End: On Capitalism and the Apocalypse By Alessandro Sbordoni The end of the world is just another sign of semiocapitalism. Semiotics of the End is a collection of thirteen essays about the end of the world [...]
By INC Team, December 19, 2023
Theory on Demand #50 RESISTING DATA COLONIALISM – A PRACTICAL INTERVENTION Members and allies of the Tierra Común Network Some people think that colonialism is long over, while others are sure it has never stopped. This book explores a third possibility: not only is colonialism still continuing, but right now it is morphing into possibly [...]
By Jordi Viader Guerrero, December 12, 2023
Reflections on the Second Iteration of the Moments of Reading Workshop Invited by Daniel Leix Palumbo, fellow PhD researcher in this messy field we call AI, and Dr. Matt Coler, the second iteration of the Moments of Reading workshop took place on October 24, 2023 (thanks a lot to both and all the students who [...]
By Geert Lovink, December 12, 2023
INC is proud to announce the conservation of the website of the PublishingLab (past URL: www.publishinglab.nl), which is now available again here: 🔗 networkcultures.org/publishing-lab/🔗 The PublishingLab ran for over three years (2014-2017), in parallel but connected to the Institute of Network Cultures and had its own website and domain name. After the project closed, faculty [...]
By Eleni Maragkou, December 7, 2023
At its core, raving has existed in opposition to normativity, and so has electronic music. If newcomers enticed by hard trance remixes of 2000’s Top 40 hits embrace this opposition, it is often done in ways removed from history. As Loren Granic AKA Goddollars, co-founder and resident of A Club Called Rhonda in Los Angeles, stated: [...]
By Giulia Timis, November 30, 2023
The Hmm Hotline is here! Get all your burning questions on AI answered @ PickUp Club in Amsterdam, December 6, 8 PM CET! What data is being used to train ChatGPT? Is AI really coming for your job? And how does DALL·E know how to paint? As waves of developments in artificial intelligence keep washing [...]
By Ruben Stoffelen, November 24, 2023
As I gaze out of my window, I am met with a totem. This totem is gray and windowless, nestled in between offices and academic buildings. Behind it is a park, and the longer I stare, the deeper it becomes embedded in the natural landscape, after a bit I forget it’s there. But in the [...]
