THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE WEB DEVELOPER, REALITY OF A FEMALE FREELANCER

By Tommaso Campagna, September 13, 2022

DeepPockets #4 The Psychology of the Web Developer, Reality of a Female Freelancer By Maisa Imamović Underneath the user interface of any website—be it simple or complex—lurks the web developer’s struggle with money, prestige, and power. An ever-lasting race to the top, never not working. Yet what are these unseen costs of being a traditional [...]

TOD #44: Dispatches from Ukraine: Tactical Media Reflections and Responses 

By Maria van der Togt, July 15, 2022

    Theory on Demand #44 Dispatches from Ukraine: Tactical Media Reflections and Responses edited by Maria van der Togt and 11111 &23%#719 This publication marks the first results of the Tactical Media Room Ukraine project, launched in February 2022 in Amsterdam after the shocking Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Tactical Media Room is a network [...]

Textile Tings: On Identity and Trust

By Sepp Eckenhaussen, July 5, 2022

Textile Tings: On Identity and Trust By Klara Debeljak Download .pdf here Once we’ve left the jargon there is a sense of freedom out there. What the world needs now is unruly thinking that leaves behind academic formalism and identitarian policing. The theory vibe on display here offers the best of European continental thinking that [...]

TOD #43: Freire and the Perseverance of Hope: Exploring Communication and Social Change

By Maria van der Togt, June 7, 2022

  Theory on Demand #43 Freire and the Perseverance of Hope – Exploring Communication and Social Change Edited by Ana Cristina Suzina & Thomas Tufte. The Brazilian educator Paulo Freire (1921-1997) is one of the most important thinkers of the 21st Century, figuring among the most quoted authors in the fields of Education and Social [...]

Stuck on the Platform: Reclaiming the Internet

By Geert Lovink, May 5, 2022

Stuck on the Platform by Geert Lovink We’re all trapped. No matter how hard you try to delete apps from your phone, the power of seduction draws you back. Doom scrolling is the new normal of a 24/7 online life. What happens when your home office starts to feel like a call center and you’re [...]

Below the Market: On the Artist Pension Trust and the Future of Self-Organized Redistribution

By Jordi Viader Guerrero, April 29, 2022

The Internet is The Recipe: Sexual and Psychological Education in Digital Spheres

By Angela Luong, April 13, 2022

PrtScn: The Lazy Art of Screenshot

By Dunja Nešović, April 6, 2022

INC Zine #4 PrtScn: The Lazy Art of Screenshot Edited by Dunja Nešović The zine PrtScn: The Lazy Art of Screenshot gathered more than 30 authors in an aim to collectively explore the omnipresent, yet somehow often overlooked, screenshot as a contemporary digital image and practice that fuses the human and machinic boundaries of authorship [...]

New Dependencies

By Sepp Eckenhaussen, March 31, 2022

In the Time of Refuge: A Collection of Writings and Reflections on Art, Disaster and Communities

By Tommaso Campagna, February 14, 2022

  In the Time of Refuge David Pledger and Nikos Papastergiadis (eds.) In this timely collection of essays and artistic works, we gain a spherical perspective on the role of the arts in addressing the challenge of climate change through the concept of refuge. This book follows from a pioneering five-year program of artistic experimentation [...]