TOD #40: COVID-19 from the Margins: Pandemic Invisibilities, Policies and Resistance in the Datafied Society

By Tommaso Campagna, February 1, 2021

  Theory on Demand #40 COVID-19 from the Margins. Pandemic Invisibilities, Policies and Resistance in the Datafied Society Edited by Stefania Milan, Emiliano Treré and Silvia Masiero In the first pandemic of the datafied society, the disempowered were denied a voice in the heavily quantified mainstream narrative. Featuring stories of invisibility, injustice, hope and resistance, [...]

Archeology of Virtual Worlds

By Marijn Bril, January 13, 2021

Archeology of Virtual Worlds  

Teaching Into the Void

By Marijn Bril, January 6, 2021

TOD #39: Lives of Data: Essays on Computational Cultures from India 

By Chloë Arkenbout, December 15, 2020

Theory on Demand #39 Lives of Data: Essays on Computational Cultures from India  Edited by Sandeep Mertia Foreword by Ravi Sundaram Lives of Data maps the historical and emergent dynamics of big data, computing, and society in India. Data infrastructures are now more global than ever before. In much of the world, new sociotechnical possibilities [...]

Dérives in the Digital: Avant-garde Ideology in Hacker Culture

By Sepp Eckenhaussen, December 2, 2020

Dérives in the Digital: Avant-garde Ideology in Hacker Cultures

TOD #38: Satellite Lifelines: Media, Art, Migration and the Crisis of Hospitality in Divided Cities

By Marijn Bril, November 12, 2020

Theory on Demand #38 Satellite Lifelines: Media, Art, Migration and the Crisis of Hospitality in Divided Cities Isabel Löfgren Isabel Löfgren takes us to the Stockholm high-rise suburbs to show us how art projects and transnational media intermingle with the multicultural urban reality. In this book, she discusses the architecture of her project Satellitstaden, where [...]

TOD #37: From Opinions to Images: Essays Towards a Sociology of Affects

By Eleni Maragkou, October 22, 2020

  Theory on Demand #37 From Opinions to Images: Essays Towards a Sociology of Affects By Ulus S. Baker Edited by Aras Özgün and Andreas Treske Ulus Baker (1960 – 2007) was a Turkish-Cypriot sociologist, philosopher, and public intellectual. He was born in Ankara, Turkey in 1960. He studied Sociology at Middle East Technical University [...]

Diary of a Stylist

By Marijn Bril, October 19, 2020

Diary of a Stylist

Feminist Finance Syllabus

By Inte Gloerich, October 13, 2020

Feminist Finance Syllabus is here ✊ Download your digital copy Amateur Cities and Institute of Network Cultures are proud to present Feminist Finance Syllabus, a supplement to the Feminist Finance Zine titled Radical Care: Embracing Feminist Finance. It is a result of the Twitter conversations that took place during three launch events of the zine [...]

Pulling the Virtual Wool over Your Eyes: An Essay on Virtual Fashion and Control

By Chloë Arkenbout, October 7, 2020

Pulling the Virtual Wool over Your Eyes: An Essay on Virtual Fashion and Control