net critique blog by Geert Lovink
By Geert Lovink, October 16, 2023
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 INC Team, September 20, 2023
By INC Team, 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 [...]
By Megan Phipps, August 8, 2023
In Expanded Cinema, written in 1970, Gene Youngblood outlines what he deems as his contemporary scientific transition as an era of Cosmic Consciousness. Youngblood explains: “At their present limits astrophysics, biochemistry, and conceptual mathematics move into metaphysical territory. Mysticism is upon us: it arrives simultaneously from science and psilocybin.” (p. 136) Within cosmic consciousness, a [...]
By INC Team, July 10, 2023
This book, edited by Valeria Ferrari, Florian Idelberger, Andrea Leiter, Morshed Mannan, María-Cruz Valiente, Balázs Bodó, brings together voices from various fields of intellectual inquiry, based on the idea that technological, legal and societal aspects of the information sphere are interlinked and co-dependent from each other. In order to tackle the existing gap in shared [...]
By Mariana Fernandez Mora, June 13, 2023
It’s Wednesday evening and I have no specific plans. I’m chilling on the sofa, scrolling through TikTok and Instagram while Below Deck Sailing Yacht is playing in the background. Even though I’m not moving I’m tired and bored. I have multiple screens open, trying to distract me, with no plans and no people available to [...]
