The Critical Makers Reader: (Un)learning Technology

By Maisa Imamovic, November 20, 2019

     About the book: A decade ago many gushed at the possibilities of 3D printers and other DIY tech. Today makers are increasingly shaking off their initial blind enthusiasm to numerically control everything, rediscovering an interest in sociocultural histories and futures and waking up to the environmental and economic implications of digital machines that [...]

El Abismo de las Redes Sociales: Culturas Críticas de Internet y la Fuerza de la Negación

By Barbara Dubbeldam, November 3, 2019

                      ¿Quién hace la crítica de las redes? ¿Quién habla de las infraestructuras de la redes? Se pregunta Geert Lovink, uno de los teóricos del internet contemporáneos más puntuales. A diario, millones de usuarios actualizan sus timelines,  actualizan fotos,  documentan su bienestar o malestar y lo [...]

TOD #31: Media Do Not Exist

By Valeria Pugliese, October 30, 2019

    TOD#31: Media Do Not Exist Media Do Not Exist: Performativity and Mediating Conjunctures by Jean-Marc Larrue and Marcello Vitali-Rosati offers a radically new approach to the phenomenon of mediation, proposing a new understanding that challenges the very notion of medium. It begins with a historical overview of recent developments in Western thought on mediation, [...]
Harness the Power of a Fluid Identity with 3 Simple...

Harness the Power of a Fluid Identity with 3 Simple Strategies

By Barbara Dubbeldam, September 24, 2019

Harness the Power of a Fluid Identity with 3 Simple Strategies

Sad by Design: On Platform Nihilsm

By Geert Lovink, July 9, 2019

Sad by Design by Geert Lovink Sadness is now a design problem. The highs and lows of melancholy are coded into social media platforms. After all the clicking, browsing, swiping and liking, all we are left with is the flat and empty aftermath of time lost to the app. Sad by Design offers a critical analysis [...]

Our Commons: Political Ideas for a New Europe

By Sepp Eckenhaussen, July 5, 2019

Edited by Sophie Bloemen and Thomas de Groot. Our Commons: Political Ideas for a New Europe is a collection of essays, case studies and interviews that showcase the wealth of transformative ideas that the commons have to offer. Featuring reflections on the enclosure of knowledge and the monopolisation of the digital sphere, stories about renewable [...]

Made in China, Designed in California, Criticised in Europe: Amsterdam Design Manifesto

By Barbara Dubbeldam, July 5, 2019

Written by Mieke Gerritzen & Geert Lovink. Download the pdf here. When everything is destined to be designed, design disappears into the everyday. We simply don’t see it anymore because it’s everywhere. This is the vanishing act of design. At this moment design registers its redundancy: our products, environments and services have been comprehensively improved. [...]
The Controversial Archive: Negotiating Horror Images in Syria...

The Controversial Archive: Negotiating Horror Images in Syria

By Barbara Dubbeldam, May 7, 2019

The Controversial Archive: Negotiating Horror Images in Syria

Flying Money 2018: Investigating Illicit Financial Flows in the City

By Inte Gloerich, April 3, 2019

  Download links:     About the book: Being a hub and a hotspot for many people from all over the world means that new dynamics have entered Amsterdam and other cities in the last few years. Money flows pass through the city, and we often do not know anymore whose money this is, where it [...]

TOD #30: Bilwet Fascismemap (1983-1994)

By Sepp Eckenhaussen, March 27, 2019

Download de Bilwet Fascismemap:     Of bestel een gedrukt exemplaar via Lulu:   TOD#30: BILWET FASCISMEMAP (1983-1994) Dit boek is een brede collectie teksten over eigentijds fascisme, geschreven door het Nederlandse theoriecollectief Bilwet in de periode 1983-1994. De map bevat onder andere een lezing over wolven, zes kleurplaten met Kuifje en Hitler, een analyse van [...]