Posts Tagged: longform

‘Fictiocracy: Media and Politics in the Age of Storytelling’ – new Longform by Davide Banis

By Leonieke van Dipten, February 22, 2018

In times of fake news and post-truth politics, the internet acts as catalyst, multiplying the impact of falsities and further blurring the boundary between fact and fiction. In this longform Davide Banis asked himself how to make sense of the relationship between any representational media and reality. And…what is ‘fictiocracy’? We proudly present our latest [...]

Out now: On Socialist Cybernetics, Accelerationist Dreams and Tiqqun’s Nightmares

By Leonieke van Dipten, December 22, 2016

Are cybernetics and computer technologies ‘machines of communism’, a potential path to emancipatory coordination that is capable of hyper-complexity, or are they just the next governing techniques for boosting capitalistic exploitation, surveillance and oppression? We proudly present our latest longform On Socialist Cybernetics, Accelerationist Dreams and Tiqqun’s Nightmares by Paul Buckermann. About the author: Paul [...]

What can we say about the state of the art of digital comics?

By Leonieke van Dipten, November 21, 2016

What can we say about the state of the art of digital comics? Comics have taken on new forms in the digital realm as they offer many ways of reshaping the combination of visual and textual components. The limitations of the printed comic book are lifted as gifs, videos, HTML and other digital techniques offer [...]

New INC longform: The Web and its Wanderers by Jeroen van Honk

By Leonieke van Dipten, February 19, 2016

Early in the year 2012 Evgeny Morozov pronounced the death of the cyberflaneur. One could be forgiven for never having heard of this ill-fated figure, but for those whose use of the web stretches back to the 1990s, its behavioral description would certainly be familiar. The cyberflaneur – like the original flâneur – strolls, wavers, [...]

Investigating Longforms in a Research Context

By Miriam Rasch, June 16, 2015

In preparation for the new longform series the INC started a research into the genres of longform or longread. Miriam presented the project during a lunch meeting for co-workers in the research center of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. You can find the slides and notes on the website of the PublishingLab and below. [...]