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Morphic Minds

In MORPHIC MINDS, by Georgiana Cojocaru And Jordi Viader Guerrero, June 7, 2022

The mind is an emergent event. Hereraclitus called it an enormous space whose boundaries, even by traveling along every path, could never be found out. Only by looking at the…

Jordi Viader Guerrero

In MORPHIC MINDS, by Jordi Viader Guerrero, June 7, 2022

Link list on NTFs, crypto art, blockchain and other MoneyLab issues (part 14)

In MoneyLab, by Geert Lovink, June 4, 2022

Crypto’s competitive advantage: $3,950 transaction fee for a $260 NFT https://twitter.com/molly0xFFF/status/1520597019726950400 Just in case you forgot the Web3 promises: you will be your own boss https://cointelegraph.com/explained/is-web3-like-playing-minecraft Bored Ape Theft https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/apr/26/bored-ape-yacht-club-nft-hack-theft-art-simian-oblivion…

Argumentation Map: Pros and Cons of the Blockade of RT and Sputnik News in the EU

In Tactical Media Room, by 11111 &23%#719, June 3, 2022

AMS-IX , one of the largest Internet exchanges in the world, and ECP | Platform for the Information Society, have published an argument map about the European internet blockade of propagandist media…

Dispatches from the Place of Imminence, part 10

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Svitlana Matviyenko, May 31, 2022

May 9 – 29, 2022 The war did not end on May 9th. That day Russia celebrated the 77th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany with a large-scale military parade in…

Tactical Media Meetup #2: SPECIAL SOLIDARITY SCREENING WITH KYIV BIENNIAL

In Tactical Media Room, by 11111 &23%#719, May 31, 2022

  TMR is proud to host a solidarity screening in collaboration with the Emergency Support Initiative by the Kyiv Biennial and HomeCinema to raise funds for Ukraine. The event will…

Tactical Tech – In the loop Ukraine edition

In Tactical Media Room, by Maria Van Der Togt, May 11, 2022

Artwork by Katya Lesiv 🄸🄽 🅃🄷🄴 🄻🄾🄾🄿Ukraine special edition Tactical Tech is an international NGO that engages with citizens and civil-society organizations to explore and mitigate the impacts of technology…

Tactical Tech – In the loop Ukraine edition

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Maria Van Der Togt, May 11, 2022

Artwork by Katya Lesiv 🄸🄽 🅃🄷🄴 🄻🄾🄾🄿Ukraine special edition Tactical Tech is an international NGO that engages with citizens and civil-society organizations to explore and mitigate the impacts of technology…

Dispatches from the Place of Imminence, part 9

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Svitlana Matviyenko, May 10, 2022

April 13 - May 8, 2022 If you do not know Russian or if you just focus on the voice’s timbre and the rhythm of this brief conversation, it feels…

Just Out: Stuck on the Platform-Reclaiming the Internet by Geert Lovink

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, May 5, 2022

I am proud to present you my new book: Stuck on the Platform, Reclaiming the Internet. The book is published in five languages, starting with English (Valiz) and Spanish (Holobionte…

Dispatches from the Place of Imminence, part 8

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Svitlana Matviyenko, April 12, 2022

March 29 – April 12, 2022 Today is the 48th day of war. For last two weeks our region has been hit several times: Khmelnytsky, Slavuta, Shepetivka, and Starokostantyniv. In…

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

In INC Longform, by Morgane Billuart, April 12, 2022

“The major complication we confront as feminists concerned about women, health and healing seeking to intervene around the legitimacy of differences, is that this domain remains under-theorized and under-criticized while…

Proposition on Peak Data

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, April 7, 2022

"Wenn es um empirische Methoden ging, wurde Adorno grundsätzlich misstrauisch, denn eine Wissenschaft die auf Zählen, Messen und Wiegen reduziert wurde, machte für ihn den Triumph der Verdinglichung perfekt." Jörg…

Bunk Debunkers: Warfakes as Russian War Participatory Propaganda

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Karyna Lazaruk, April 5, 2022

Project by: Karyna Lazaruk and Marc Tuters (project leaders), with Borka Balogh, Marta Ceccarelli, Emillie de Keulenaar, Kiara Khorram, Devin Mitter, Son Nguyen, Stijn Peeters, Emilie Schwantzer, Cemal Tahir and…

Irregular Ukraine Linklist

In Tactical Media Room, by Geert Lovink, April 2, 2022

Alexander Isavnin: The Russian Sovereign Internet and Number Resources https://labs.ripe.net/author/alexander-isavnin/the-russian-sovereign-internet-and-number-resources/ Witnessing U: Testimonials from the front line https://toneelmakerij.nl/en/voorstellingen/witnessing-u/ The Last Days Of Mariupol’s Internet https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2022/03/31/the-last-days-of-mariupols-internet/ Drones for Ukraine https://eyesonukraine.eu/ Meet…

In Tactical Media Room, by Sepp Eckenhaussen, March 30, 2022

UKRA))i((NATV is an information platform, internet tv and centre for intercultural integration created by a group of Ukrainian, Polish and all-language people, organisations and institutions. They are embedded in the…

UKRA))i((NATV streaming on Twitch from Krakow

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Sepp Eckenhaussen, March 30, 2022

UKRA))i((NATV is an information platform, internet tv and centre for intercultural integration created by a group of Ukrainian, Polish and all-language people, organisations and institutions. They are embedded in the…

New Dependencies

In INC Longform, by Jordi Viader Guerrero, March 29, 2022

It seems that many people today experience a space problem. This applies to the physical world where living spaces in the city become less affordable by the day as wages…

In Our Creative Reset, by Sepp Eckenhaussen, March 24, 2022

In Our Creative Reset, by Sepp Eckenhaussen, March 24, 2022

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In Our Creative Reset, by Sepp Eckenhaussen, March 24, 2022

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In ADS, by Paul Bille, March 22, 2022

The mainstream use of software and psychedelic drugs share a countercultural history that originated in 1960s California. Software has been booming since. But most research on psychedelics was stopped in…

Call for Proposals – Our Creative Reset Conference

In Our Creative Reset, by Sepp Eckenhaussen, March 22, 2022

What lies beyond the ruins of the creative industries ideology? Can we imagine the end of precarity? What is the future of work in the cultural sector? During the Our…

Dispatches from the Place of Imminence, part 6

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Svitlana Matviyenko, March 21, 2022

March 12 –20, 2022 The air raid siren is a complex event. At night, when the streets under the curfew regime are empty of cars and random night wanderers, all…

A Poem about the ‘Rise of the Machines’ 1/2

In Living Industry, by Maisa Imamovic, March 21, 2022

True that, The internet was not always present, But the guns were.   Actually, did you know that the first virtual spaces, cyberspaces of the grid-like electronic globe, were specifically…

The Ukraine War and the Costs of the Metaverse by PJ Gamez Cersosimo

In Tactical Media Room, by Geert Lovink, March 17, 2022

More than ever, our lives are spent, immersed, in a disruptive, confusingly feudal, liquid, and at the same time energetically unsustainable online world. Above all, the technological advances of the…

The Ukraine War and the Costs of the Metaverse by PJ Gamez Cersosimo

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Geert Lovink, March 17, 2022

More than ever, our lives are spent, immersed, in a disruptive, confusingly feudal, liquid, and at the same time energetically unsustainable online world. Above all, the technological advances of the…

In Going Hybrid, by Laurence Scherz, March 17, 2022

1974

In PrtScn, by Jordi Viader Guerrero, March 16, 2022

Matthew Swarts 1974 https://youtu.be/_Ss3y-mDLyw A blended representation of 2,547 successive screenshots of images from a Google search for "1974", consecutively ordered last to first: https://matthewswarts.org/1974a/ Matthew Swarts uses computers to…

Towards an Interactive Future

In Going Hybrid, by Laurence Scherz, March 15, 2022

Every since the Covid-19 'reset'—a re-evaluation of workflows, business models, and ways in which events are organized—the cultural field has continuously tried to innovate itself, compensating for temporary breaks in…

Dispatches from the Place of Imminence, part 4

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Svitlana Matviyenko, March 10, 2022

March 6-10, 2022 After a quiet day on Saturday, March 5th, there were six air raid sirens on March 6th, and I noticed that, unless the rockets hit the city,…

A Hybrid Start

In Going Hybrid, by Laurence Scherz, March 10, 2022

And so it begins... With a hybrid kick-off on January 19th the long-term research project Going Hybrid, which will continue until December 2023, has entered its initial phase: figuring out…

Notes of Lev Manovich, February 24/March 6, 2022

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Geert Lovink, March 6, 2022

February 24, 2022 In summer 2019 I spent a month in Kyiv. It is a most amazing city - a bit of Rome, Paris Rio de Janeiro, and Bangkok together…

Notes of Lev Manovich, February 24/March 6, 2022

In Tactical Media Room, by Geert Lovink, March 6, 2022

February 24, 2022 In summer 2019 I spent a month in Kyiv. It is a most amazing city - a bit of Rome, Paris Rio de Janeiro, and Bangkok together…

Dispatches from the Place of Imminence, part 3

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Svitlana Matviyenko, March 5, 2022

February 27, 2o22 - March 5, 2022 I thought it’s just me, but Asia says she is losing sense of what day it is. I feel the same, not all…

Pulsations of Dis/information: Diary of Kateryna Kobzdar, Lviv-Berlin, part 2

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Karyna Lazaruk, March 4, 2022

“I never thought I’ll be a refugee,” a colleague wrote in a Facebook group chat. Me neither. While the Ukrainian army and citizens bravely defend my homeland, I write this…

Dispatches from the Place of Imminence, part 2

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Svitlana Matviyenko, February 27, 2022

February 25-26, 2022 The first day of war leaves 137 dead, 316 injured; by the end of the third, the numbers are up to 198, including 3 children, and 1,115…

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In PrtScn, by Jordi Viader Guerrero, February 23, 2022

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Pulsations of Dis/information: Diary of Kateryna Kobzdar from Lviv, Ukraine

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Kateryna Kobzdar, February 22, 2022

Ukrainians have been living in a permanent state of hybrid war with Russia since February 2014, when Russia occupied Crimea and part of Donbas. But the new cycle of Russian…

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In Performing the Internet, by Nancy Mauro-Flude, 17/02/2022

For Issue 45, guest edited by Nancy Mauro-Flude, Runway Journal is excited to commission new works responding to the theme ᗩᔕEᗰIᑕ “Highly wrought and so covered over with accretions of matter…hubble-bubble,…

Contact

In Our Creative Reset, by Sepp Eckenhaussen, February 15, 2022

OUR CREATIVE RESET Want to know more about the project? Contact Sepp Eckenhaussen, sepp@networkcultures.org. INSTITUTE OF NETWORK CULTURES Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences | HvA Benno Premselahuis, Room 04A07 www.networkcultures.org

Q&A with Business Consultant Maik Baumgaertner

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, January 11, 2022

Email interview with Geert Lovink by business consultant Maik Baumgaertner (late 2021) Maik Baumgaertner: Thinking specifically about the intersection of the internet and culture, what’s on the horizon for 2022? What are…

Link list on NTFs, crypto art, blockchain and other MoneyLab issues (part 13)

In MoneyLab, by Geert Lovink, January 9, 2022

Mozilla founder blasts browser maker for accepting ‘planet incinerating’ cryptocurrency donations https://www.theregister.com/2022/01/05/mozilla_accepts_cryptocurrency/ The NFT Handbook: How to Create, Sell and Buy Non-Fungible Tokens https://hyperallergic.com/701414/nft-handbook-create-sell-buy-non-fungible-tokens-matt-fortnow-quharrison-terry/ The Weirdness Beyond Web3’s Bullshit https://thedorkweb.substack.com/p/the-weirdness-beyond-web3-bullshit…

Stop Being Reasonable: On Nonviolence in Social Media Comment Wars  

In The Digital Gutmensch, by Chloë Arkenbout, January 5, 2022

“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.” ― Angela Davis “For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s…

A Poem about Screenshots

In Living Industry, by Maisa Imamovic, December 15, 2021

Upheavals erupt, faster than change.   There are three known cops in my head, Cops in my head.   The Cop of Time, Grants freezing one of the two existential…

Cycles: the Sacred and the Doomed, On Optimization, PMDD and its Metaphors.

In INC Longform, by Morgane Billuart, December 13, 2021

Assemblages of screenshots from different internet resources   We must know whether we want to change the world to experience it with the same sensorial system like the one we…

Shifting the Definition of Professional Competence: Jue Yang on the Post-Precarity Autumn Camp in Metropolis M

In Our Creative Reset, by Sepp Eckenhaussen, December 8, 2021

'The rhetoric that artistic freedom should be separate from talks of money and professionalization still prevails in art academies and public imaginations, making the survival — not to mention well-being…

Call for Proposals – Memes Beyond the Image 

In Viral Image Culture, by Chloë Arkenbout, December 1, 2021

The Institute of Network Cultures is looking for theorists, researchers, journalists, artists, activists, designers and other creatives and thinkers that are working on meme studies and practices, that want to…

Freelance Worker in the Dutch Cultural Sector? Fill Out This Income Loss Survey

In Our Creative Reset, by Sepp Eckenhaussen, November 30, 2021

Once again the cultural sector is being hit hard by the corona measures and once again the self-employed are at risk of being left without support. In order to take…

Raw Memory, Ephemerality of the Eternal in WhatsApp by Natalia Stanusch

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Geert Lovink, November 29, 2021

https://vimeo.com/650892559 Hauntology of Metadata WhatsApp presents itself to us as a service that belongs to us. The sent images, the videos, the messages are encrypted for my privacy because they…

A Poem about a Container

In Living Industry, by Maisa Imamovic, November 26, 2021

I need a container, To help me contain The fluidity of all That I do not desire To chain;   like a company. Academic, cultural, scholarly, instructive. Youtube tutorial.  …

‘The Elephant in the Device’, Silvio Lorusso on Gig Platform Fiverr

In Our Creative Reset, by Sepp Eckenhaussen, November 24, 2021

Need a logo, webdesign, translation, or set of subtitles? In the mood for something more extravagant, like a personal video message from Jesus Christ? Fiverr is your place to go.…

Recap: Critical Meme Reader Launch @ Spui25

In Viral Image Culture, by Chloë Arkenbout, November 23, 2021

On the occasion of the launch of the ‘Critical Meme Reader, Global Mutations of the Viral Image’, edited by Chloë Arkenbout, Jack Wilson and Daniel de Zeeuw, we dived into…

#Overexposed: Technological Sadness, Overconsumption and Memory Loss

In INC Longform, by Chloë Arkenbout, November 23, 2021

As a designer, when I choose a topic to discuss, it is usually based on my own experiences. As I am a keen observer of human behavior,  I noticed something…

Digital Esoterism Or to be a Witch in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism

In INC Longform, by Morgane Billuart, November 15, 2021

The following text has been extracted from Digital Esoterism Master thesis, produced within the Social Design Department of Design Academy Eindhoven, 2021. This text will follow the structure of a…

4 Demands for Economically Responsible Art Education

In Our Creative Reset, by Sepp Eckenhaussen, November 13, 2021

Our future generations of artists deserve to be prepared for the unruly reality of the labor market of the cultural sector. We therefore find it hard to understand why many…

6 Theses on the Deprofessionalization of Design

In ENTREPRECARIAT, by Silvio Lorusso, November 3, 2021

1. According to Donald Schön, a professional is someone who "claims extraordinary knowledge in matters of human importance, getting in return extraordinary rights and privileges." This definition proves that a…

Principles of Post-Precarity

In Our Creative Reset, by Sepp Eckenhaussen, October 27, 2021

'What are we to make of someone who says they love their work and cannot imagine doing anything they enjoy more, yet earn so little that they can never take…

20 October: The Hmm ON Online Fandom

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Chloë Arkenbout, October 12, 2021

The act of idolizing has long surpassed just hanging some posters on your bedroom wall. With the rise of the internet, and especially Web 2.0, fandom has extended onto our…

Now You See Me: Visibility of the Lesbian Identity on TikTok

In INC Longform, by Dunja Nešović, October 8, 2021

In April 2020, I was in my second month of lockdown. The particular state of isolation I was in made my digital life more tangible, and my ‘real life’ intensively…

POST-PRECARITY AUTUMN CAMP – DAY FIVE

In Our Creative Reset, by Dunja Nešović, October 1, 2021

The fifth and last day of Post-Precarity Autumn Camp served to recollect the knowledge of the previous four days and motivate participants to apply it to their strategies of durable…

POST-PRECARITY AUTUMN CAMP – DAY THREE

In Our Creative Reset, by Dunja Nešović, September 30, 2021

On the third day of the Post-Precarity Autumn Camp, the participants had the chance to get an insight into alternative financial pathways of the digital art world. Geert Lovink of…

Post-Precarity Autumn Camp: How to Survive as an Artist?

In Our Creative Reset, by Sepp Eckenhaussen, September 16, 2021

From September 27th until October 1st, the Institute of Network Cultures, Hotel Maria Kapel (Hoorn), and Platform BK organize an autumn camp for young art workers. Fifteen recently graduated artists,…

About

In Our Creative Reset, by Sepp Eckenhaussen, September 15, 2021

Our Creative Reset is a research program for culture after Covid19, exploring new principles and strategies for cultural work, policy, and solidarity. This includes a broad scope, ranging from a…

A poem

In Living Industry, by Maisa Imamovic, September 7, 2021

There is a gap in time, What should I do?    I’m temporarily left-handed; looking at the notebook next to my bed. Boring.  Some magazine underneath it.  Boring.  Another reading…

Not everything grows exponentially

In Living Industry, by Maisa Imamovic, August 9, 2021

*A textual product of a time thus far* Subjects: Digi-tools, 35mm image, employed fingers, and Sevdaliza I am introspectively swiping and selecting the subjects from my memory, including those from…

Chatting with an AI about Burnout.

In NO FUN, by Jess Henderson, July 28, 2021

Talking about burnout with OpenAI tool GPT-3. In July 2020, OpenAI released Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3 (GPT-3) for beta testing – a natural language processing system (colloquially, an “AI”) that…

Shot Theory: From Viagra to the COVID-19 Vaccine, Pfizer Got it Right

In INC Longform, by Donatella Della Ratta, July 27, 2021

How did data culture evolve in the past decade up to present day? It shifted from the euphoria of sharing for the sake of sharing, characterizing Web 2.0’s advent in…

A demo poem

In Living Industry, by Maisa Imamovic, July 23, 2021

I’ve learned, A kind of communication, different from the one my masters have taught me, also different from the one my home has taught me.   I've been taught that,…

On the Spectrality of Cats in Cyberspace

In Specters of Control, by Anna-Verena Nosthoff & Felix Maschewski, July 22, 2021

"The best material model of a cat is another, or preferably the same, cat." - Norbert Wiener Cats hold a strange role in the history of cybernetics. Most iconically, Norbert Wiener, Julian Bigelow, and Arturo Rosenblueth used…

Writing the Feminist Internet: Reimagining Internet Sovereignty as Feminist Laissez-Faire

In Performing the Internet, by Nancy Mauro-Flude, 07/07/2021

This text responds to a collaborative performance Writing the Feminist Internet (2020) WtFI it suggests that these manifestations are a motif of fourth wave feminism. It probes at the edge…

Interview with Geert Lovink/We Are Not Sick by Jess Henderson/Band of Burnouts

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, July 6, 2021

Jess Henderson from the No Fun blog (hosted on the INC site) and the Band of Burnouts exhibited in Zurich her own version of the materials generated by We Are…

We Are Not Sick Zine: Interview w. Geert Lovink

In NO FUN, by Jess Henderson, July 5, 2021

An interview with Geert Lovink for Lange Nacht Festival. This past Saturday the Band of Burnouts research lab presented We Are Not Sick at Zurich's annual contemporary music festival Lange…

Silicon Valley just moved in next door-And this is why it matters. By Natalie Dixon

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Natalie Dixon, July 1, 2021

In this blog series I explore a burgeoning intimate surveillance culture in neighbourhoods across the world.  At the core of this research is a flourishing network of surveillance technologies produced…

Ben Grosser: Planning the Exodus from Platform Realism

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Geert Lovink, June 29, 2021

Thinking about the current state of platforms, I’m reminded of Mark Fisher’s articulation of capitalist realism, the idea that we don’t imagine or build alternatives to capitalism because we can…

CD: 1000 fehler

In Geert, by Lisa Marsman, June 23, 2021

1000 Fehler (1000 Errors) Or listen to each individual song: https://archive.org/details/07-elektronische-einsamkeit/01-Prolog.mp3 The audio-cd "1000 Fehler" is a composition of spoken theory-fragments by Adilkno (Foundation of the Advancement of Illegal Knowledge/Amsterdam)…

Access To Tools_

In INC Longform, by Nina Sarnelle, June 18, 2021

As Gods_ If there’s a fight, then, I will fight. And fight with a purpose. I will not fight for America, nor for home, nor for President Eisenhower, nor for…

Ben Grosser: Why Instagram’s Like Hiding Saga is a PR Stunt

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Geert Lovink, June 14, 2021

Instagram’s Like Hiding Saga is a PR Stunt: What Facebook’s Darling Hopes You’ll Forget About Social Media Metrics By Ben Grosser In the spring of 2019 Instagram announced to the…

La Repubblica interview: From Sad by Design to Zoom Fatigue

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, June 8, 2021

Interview with Geert Lovink by Annarita Briganti For La Repubblica, May 31, 2021 Italian online version: https://www.repubblica.it/cultura/2021/06/08/news/geert_lovink_viaggio_nello_stress_da_iperconnessione_la_tecno-tristezza_si_verifica_quando_e_tutto_troppo_e_dobbiamo_smet-304844326/ Italian version as pdf: Lovink interviee 06_08_21 Original English email version: Annarita Briganti:…

Post-precariteit

In INC Longform, by Sepp Eckenhaussen, June 3, 2021

'What are we to make of someone who says they love their work and cannot imagine doing anything they enjoy more, yet earn so little that they can never take…

The Digitarian Society @ Tetem met Geert Lovink en Chloë Arkenbout

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Chloë Arkenbout, May 31, 2021

In de driedelige serie The Digitarian Society onderzoekt Tetem samen met mediakunstenaar Roos Groothuizen en gasten van het Institute of Network Cultures, Waag en PublicSpaces wat er nodig is om…

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“Social Media are not the New Smoking”: Interview with Geert Lovink by Juan Íñigo

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, May 13, 2021

Published in Spanish in the Latin-American online edition of Jacobin: https://jacobinlat.com/2021/05/13/las-redes-sociales-no-son-el-nuevo-tabaquismo/. English original below. Juan Íñigo: In a recent article you talked to several theorists about "zoom fatigue," a term…

In Tactical Visual Culture, by Lisa Marsman, May 12, 2021

In Tactical Visual Culture, by Tommaso Campagna, May 12, 2021

In Tactical Visual Culture, by Tommaso Campagna, May 12, 2021

In Tactical Visual Culture, by Lisa Marsman, May 12, 2021

TVC: Video Witnessing

In Tactical Visual Culture, by Lisa Marsman, May 12, 2021

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In Tactical Visual Culture, by Lisa Marsman, May 12, 2021

What are the Specters of Control?

In Specters of Control, by Anna-Verena Nosthoff & Felix Maschewski, April 30, 2021

A short Hauntology of the Digital »Mind no longer goes more ghostly than a ghost« – Warren McCulloch The specter of control is a small icon, not bigger than the…

Going Online: The Computer, Privacy & Data Protection Conference in gather.town

In Going Online, by Marijn Bril, April 28, 2021

Gathering in the early 2000s For Going Online, I research events on the internet: last January CPDP conference went online. The Computers, Privacy & Data Protection Conference normally takes place…

Going Online: samenkomen in een virtueel gebouw tijdens IMPAKT Festival

In Going Online, by Marijn Bril, April 27, 2021

In Gesprek met Arjon Dunnewind over IMPAKT Festival 2020: Zero Footprint  Voor de blogserie Going Online ga ik in gesprek met ontwerpers, curatoren en programma makers over online evenementen. Jaarlijks…

Audio, Text and Reading Today: Interview with Geert Lovink

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, April 23, 2021

By Lucia Tonelli & Giorgia Giacomini We’re MA students in Communication and Graphic Design at ISIA Urbino, Italy and we’re researching the act of publishing for Jonathan Pierini’s Graphic Production…

Going Online: Dutch Design Week Part 2 – Liveness

In Going Online, by Marijn Bril, April 23, 2021

“Once everything is digital, and can stay on the internet forever, how do you create this ‘once-in-a-lifetime, can’t-be-repeated’ experience?” – Lauren Lundholm In the Going Online series, I talk with…

Planning your life or, better, your afterlife

In The Technological Zombie, by Donatella Della Ratta, April 20, 2021

The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free, Nassim Nicholas Taleb once wrote. A Lebanese American mathematical statistician and essayist concerned…

Going Offline with Erald Veliaj

In ADS, by Paul Bille, April 20, 2021

Roughly a month ago I received an e-mail from Erald Veliaj, containing an invitation to a social network claiming to be the new Harvard-based Facebook. I had already dismissed the…

The People are Not an Image: A Conversation on Vernacular Video [3/3]

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Alexandra Juhasz And Peter Snowdon, April 7, 2021

This is the final blog post of the three-part conversation between film professor, media producer, theorist, and activist Alexandra Juhasz and writer and filmmaker Peter Snowdon. Alex In this moment,…

Questions from Pablo Gámez Cersosimo

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, April 2, 2021

Questions from Pablo Gámez Cersosimo “ Wir fragen nach der Technik und möchten dadurch eine freie Beziehung zu ihr vorbereiten. Das Fragen baut an einem Weg, ein Weg des Denkens.”…

Op ‘kroegentocht’ langs alternatieve platforms: gezamenlijkheid en eigenaarschap

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Evelien Van Nieuwenhoven, April 1, 2021

Over het plezier van samen servers overbelasten Gisteravond vond onder leiding van The Hmm en PublicSpaces een virtuele tour plaats rond verschillende alternatieve platforms. Ongeveer 90 online deelnemers bezochten 5…

The Digital Gutmensch: The Ethics of Challenging Oppressive Discourses in the Digital Public Sphere

In The Digital Gutmensch, by Chloë Arkenbout, March 30, 2021

A Research Project About Moral Responsibility, Allyship and the Power of the Words We Choose   I’ve been called a Gutmensch more times than I can count. And yes, I…

The Digital Gutmensch Manifesto

In The Digital Gutmensch, by Chloë Arkenbout, March 30, 2021

The Ethics of Challenging Oppressive Discourses in the Digital Public Sphere A Research Project About Moral Responsibility, Allyship and the Power of the Words We Choose   I’ve been called a Gutmensch…

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In Specters of Control, by Paul Bille, March 27, 2021

In Specters of Control, by Paul Bille, March 27, 2021

Freedom of Face: Nxt Museum Q&A with “Coded Bias” director Shalini Kantayya

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Agnieszka Wodzińska, March 24, 2021

Who wants a ‘perfect’ algorithm? On March 23 2021, the Nxt Museum hosted a Q&A with filmmaker and activist Shalini Kantayya. She is the director of the investigative documentary “Coded…

Resting in Pixels: One year of “Animal Crossing: New Horizons”

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Agnieszka Wodzińska, March 19, 2021

Growing up, my friend had a Nintendo Entertainment System knock-off called Pegasus. I think it was only sold in Eastern Europe in the 1990s. I spent a few summers in…

THE TECHNOLOGICAL ZOMBIE

In The Technological Zombie, by Donatella Della Ratta, March 16, 2021

Technology can turn us into zombies, as Concordia University student Aaron Ansuini bitterly discovered. While searching for the email address for his professor Francois-Marc Gagnon, he instead found his obituary.…

Dehumanizing the User Experience

In ADS, by Paul Bille, March 15, 2021

Talking about the aesthetics of big-tech is tricky. The ubiquity of flat, geometric sans-serifs, cutesy illustrations and their compulsively positive kindergarten appeal seems to be too easy of a target.…

Cats, Frogs and Cryptoartists: What if Auteur .jpgs Become a Luxury Good

In INC Longform, by Chloë Arkenbout, March 11, 2021

When in July 2013 I met Andreas Schildbach, the first developer to write the Bitcoin Wallet for mobile, one Bitcoin was worth around 80 euros. We were sitting at a…

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In Specters of Control, by Sepp Eckenhaussen, March 11, 2021

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Ulises A. Mejias: Alternate Realities and the Logic of Data Colonialism

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Geert Lovink, March 4, 2021

Remember Alternate Reality Games? As some observers have pointed out, QAnon definitely feels and functions like an ARG. It's got open and collective storytelling, multiplatform content, puppet masters, die hard…

Remarks on Crypto-Art

In MoneyLab, by Rosa Menkman, March 3, 2021

A few weeks ago my students and I came to the conclusion that the GameStop short squeeze could be read as just another form of tactical media resistance, organized through…

Mystery Person

In ADS, by Paul Bille, March 1, 2021

Below are some questions that came to my mind when I discovered that the default user avatar of this WordPress site is a "Mystery Person". Who is Mystery Person? Is…

When I Look Through My Browser Window I Can Feel the Fresh Air

In Going Online, by Marijn Bril, February 23, 2021

From wildlife live streams, the iconic Windows XP Bliss wallpaper, to the afterlife of animals on the internet, nature is just a click away. Overly saturated and in full HD,…

Da li je kreacija brža od svoje reprezentacije? – ćaskanje sa Damirom Imamovićem

In Living Industry, by Maisa Imamovic, February 19, 2021

Dragi Damire,  Već dugo slušam tvoju muziku, posebno pjesmu Dva se draga (na dugmetu ‘ponovi’ tokom nekoliko faza mog života). 2018. godine sam pozvala svoje društvo da mi se pridruže…

Is creation faster than its representation? – chatting with Damir Imamović

In Living Industry, by Maisa Imamovic, February 19, 2021

Dear Damire,  I listen to your music for a long time now, especially the song Dva se draga (on a replay button during several phases of my life). In 2018,…

Going Online: Metaphors, Strategies, and Experiences of Translating Cultural Events to the Internet

In Going Online, by Marijn Bril, February 17, 2021

A Series of Conversations with Designers, Curators, and Program Makers The start of this new decade has not turned out the way many expected or hoped for. In an increasingly…

About

In Going Online, by Marijn Bril, February 17, 2021

Marijn Bril is a Rotterdam-based media designer, researcher, and curator. With an interest in digital culture in all its complexity and foolishness, she explores topics ranging from networked images, technological…

Flagging The Change

In ADS, by Paul Bille, February 15, 2021

In my previous posts, I have laid out how my computer socialization and my aspiration to become a graphic designer have successfully trapped me inside Apple’s and Adobe’s ecosystem. I…

Link list on GameStop, BTC, blockchain and other MoneyLab issues (part 10)

In MoneyLab, by Geert Lovink, February 12, 2021

Interview with an Anonymous GameStop Investor https://taibbi.substack.com/p/this-is-for-you-dad-interview-with Meme-swarm and Microtrading by Franco “Bifo” Berardi https://illwilleditions.com/meme-swarm-and-microtrading/ NFTs Will Introduce Crypto To The Mainstream https://andrewsteinwold.substack.com/p/nfts-will-introduce-crypto-to-the Early bitcoin politics: Digital metallism vs Infrastructural…

Update/Join the MoneyLab Community on Discord

In MoneyLab, by Geert Lovink, February 12, 2021

Dear MoneyLab members, how are you all coping? With six weeks to go to MoneyLab #11 Berlin (March 26-28) we got something exciting to look forward to. The event will…

Dude, Where’s My 22nd Century?

In NO FUN, by Jess Henderson, February 9, 2021

On the Burnout of Future-Images: How the mass phenomenon directly reflects the troubles of our cultural imagination. In his book The Image of the Future (1961), Dutch sociologist Fred. L.…

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In ADS, by Paul Bille, February 1, 2021

  An effort must be made to educate the users about themselves. There should be an understanding of what it means to be a user of an “all-purpose automatic digital…

Please Join MoneyLab Zoom GameStop Debate on Feb. 1

In MoneyLab, by Geert Lovink, January 31, 2021

(If you missed the MoneyLab GameStop debate on Zoom, here's the video recording. 90 people attended the lively 1:20 min. discussion chaired by Ela Kagel and other members of the…

Full Automation, Full Fantasy

In NO FUN, by Jess Henderson, January 28, 2021

On Content Moderators and the Illusion of AI. This article was originally published in Rosa Mercedes, the online journal of the Harun Farocki Institut. ‘The panic attacks started after Chloe…

A romantic void avoider installs notfinal.pdf

In Living Industry, by Maisa Imamovic, January 22, 2021

The notfinal.pdf on spotlight consists of a few years old, therefore LONG, scroll, compiled of broken image squares - similar to those we encounter through the code when a file…

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In ADS, by Paul Bille, January 21, 2021

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In ADS, by Paul Bille, January 19, 2021

The Cloud-Based Designer is a blog hosted by the Institute of Network Culture and my attempt to understand a graphic design practice from inside and outside the cloud. I am…

Archeology of Virtual Worlds

In INC Longform, by Marijn Bril, January 11, 2021

I’m driving recklessly. The city unfolds as I whip past shops, offices, and other cars. All of a sudden, I see a heavy truck rushing towards me at top speed.…

Interview met Mieke Gerritzen over Help jezelf!

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, January 6, 2021

Interview met Mieke Gerritzen over Help Je Zelf! De opkomst van self-design Door Geert Lovink “Ben jij een testo-junkie? Ja, Nee.” “Verzin jouw eigen familie”, “Hoe geliefd ben jij?” “De…

Work&Relax: On Total Work in the University

In NO FUN, by Jess Henderson, December 22, 2020

Late into the pandemic, the University announced a new area on the top floor titled 'Work&Relax.' Made up of a set of interconnected rooms, the space is at the far…

OUT NOW: Emotive Images Educational Toolkit

In Tactical Visual Culture, by Tommaso Campagna, December 21, 2020

Digital visual cultures come with an abundance of more playful, ironic, and emotive imagery, such as GIFs, memes, and emojis. Just as we have studied the prominence of cat videos…

Watch Albert Figurt’s Desktop Narrative Workshop here

In Tactical Visual Culture, by Tommaso Campagna, December 9, 2020

Albert Figurt is an Italian video-artisan, independent researcher and Video Vortex member. In this series of videos, which are recordings of his Desktop Narrative Workshop he gave on the 3rd…

Internesia: The Techno-Persuasion To Forget

In NO FUN, by Jess Henderson, December 9, 2020

We begin recalling a story from something seen online only to realize midway through that the facts are hard to retreive... Internesia: The Techno-Persuasion To Forget Originally published in MARCH…

The Conspiracy Theorist as Influencer

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Eleni Maragkou, December 8, 2020

Here’s a conversation starter: "What do you do?" "I research conspiracy theories." This response is usually met with varied forms of excitement and curiosity: "Oh, sick, I love conspiracy theories!",…

In D E S K T O P I A, by Desktopia, December 4, 2020

that desktopian thing..

In D E S K T O P I A, by Desktopia, December 3, 2020

DESKTOPIA is a multi-faceted project DESKTOPIA is a transmedia-survey-to-come, growing along with this brand new blog DESKTOPIA is both a work-in-progress and an ongoing storytelling experiment DESKTOPIA in an unsettled…

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

In INC Longform, by Juli Laczkó, December 2, 2020

Picture this. It’s 2017, we are the character @observer on one of freenode’s IRC channels, while Tz4R4, dchmp and B_All are watching the newest !Mediengruppe Bitnik hack with awe: if…

Workshop Interfacing Amsterdam’s Colonial Histories

In Tactical Visual Culture, by Tommaso Campagna, November 26, 2020

During this workshop, we ideate and explore tactics to turn iconic buildings into visual gateways that address Amsterdam’s stakes in historical trade routes and slavery. By appropriating physical and digital…

Interfacing Amsterdam’s Colonial Histories

In Tactical Visual Culture, by Tommaso Campagna, November 26, 2020

During this this workshop, we ideate and explore tactics to turn iconic buildings into visual gateways that address Amsterdam’s stakes in historical trade routes and slavery. By appropriating physical and…

Emotive Images

In Tactical Visual Culture, by Tommaso Campagna, November 26, 2020

Digital visual cultures come with an abundance of more playful, ironic, and emotive imagery, such as GIFs, memes, and emojis. Just as we have studied the prominence of cat videos…

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In D E S K T O P I A, by Sepp Eckenhaussen, November 25, 2020

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Breathing as Writing: The Productive Tensions and Murmurs of the Telematic World.

In Performing the Internet, by Nancy Mauro-Flude, 22/11/2020

“The one who understands is not extracting from the abstract from out of the tone, the rhythm, and the cadences the noise internal to the utterance, the cacophony internal to…

The Anatomy of Zoom Fatigue by Geert Lovink

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, November 21, 2020

“The body has been drained of its sedimented meanings through the sheer persistence of the recording device and ceased to be a body productive of meanings or connotations beyond its…

Noise vs. Control: A Parable Against Modelling the Future by Geert Lovink & Ned Rossiter

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, November 21, 2020

“People find themselves seemingly unable to create the conditions for a radical bifurcation—not the disruptive ‘radical innovation’ of the kind claimed by those startup entrepreneurs who present themsevles as ‘new…

Reporting The Hmm at Tactical Visual Culture

In Tactical Visual Culture, by Maisa Imamovic, November 11, 2020

We’ll start soon! is streaming on the screen of tonight’s live event: The Hmm at Tactical Visual Culture, while I’m changing my font to Helvetica. The sound of Synth Sinatra…

The Interface as Playground: Albert Figurt’s Desktop Narratives

In Tactical Visual Culture, by Marijn Bril, November 11, 2020

On November 4, 2020 the INC and the Visual Methodologies Collective had the pleasure to host a Desktop Narrative Workshop by Albert Figurt, an Italian video-artisan, multi-instrumentalist, independent researcher, and…

Principles of Stacktivism

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, November 10, 2020

(this essay was published first by tripleC in the non-peer-reviewed Reflection section of the journal here) Principles of Stacktivism by Geert Lovink “One of the last frontiers left for radical…

Designing the Politics of Public Data for Public Events: A Conversation with Designer & Programmer Joel Galvez

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Chloë Arkenbout, November 2, 2020

When web developer Joel Galvez quit Facebook, he realized he had no accessible overview of events anymore - 'newsletters and Instagram are just not the same, they give glimpses, but…

Interview: Digital Lockdown with Geert Lovink by Jess Henderson

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, October 30, 2020

(published in the No Fun Mag, October 28, 2020) Jess Henderson: As I write to you in August 2020, you are on vacation in a depopulated rural area and pretty…

Architectural Filter Bubbles: On the Society for the Nonpreservation of Brutalism

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Marijn Bril, October 27, 2020

What does it mean to infiltrate the other side of the argument?     The Fetish for the Image and the Digital Ethnographer Coming from the field of design, my…

Preface of the Chinese translation of Social Media Abyss (Geert Lovink, 2016)

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, October 22, 2020

I am proud to announce the publication of my first Chinese translation: Social Media Abyss from 2016, originally published in English by Polity Press, with other translations in Italian, German,…

The Hmm @ Tactical Visual Culture

In Tactical Visual Culture, by Tommaso Campagna, October 22, 2020

The Hmm partners up with the Institute of Network Cultures and the Visual Methodologies Collective for a special event where 8 driven and diverse speakers, that are working, making, and…

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In Tactical Visual Culture, by Tommaso Campagna, October 21, 2020

With Tactical Visual Culture, Visual Methodologies Collective and the Institute of Network Cultures investigate new visual tools at the crossroads of artistic research, journalism, and data visualization. We explore what…

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In Tactical Visual Culture, by Tommaso Campagna, October 21, 2020

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Sample Page

In Tactical Visual Culture, by Sepp Eckenhaussen, October 21, 2020

This is an example page. It's different from a blog post because it will stay in one place and will show up in your site navigation (in most themes). Most…

De Kunst van de Kritiek: hybride, dialogisch en urgent

In The Art of Criticism, by Miriam Rasch, 20/10/2020

De Kunst van de Kritiek is een samenwerking tussen het Instituut voor Netwerkcultuur, Domein voor Kunstkritiek en vele nationale en internationale partners, die sinds 2015 bestaat. Wat kunnen internet en…

Shock Me. Please: On Pervasive Boring Creativity

In NO FUN, by Jess Henderson, October 19, 2020

The following is an excerpt from my new book Offline Matters: The Less-Digital Guide to Creative Work, which can also be found in the current print issue of Amsterdam Alternative…

Economic Disobedience and Avenging the Imaginary in the Age of the Never-Ending Culture Wars

In Performing the Internet, by Nancy Mauro-Flude, 12/10/2020

Are we tired of talking about the obvious value of culture yet? If indeed, according to the Australian government, that art is useless and culture has absolutely no value, this…

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

In INC Longform, by Tom Robertson, October 7, 2020

Any reference to ‘virtual’ or ‘digital’ fashion will be concerning the software-based design process explained in the introduction and not other methods of digitisation within the industry. This will be…

Pulling the Virtual Wool Over Your Eyes 2

In INC Longform, by Chloë Arkenbout, October 5, 2020

We Are Not Sick’s Theory-Music Album Sad by Design

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, September 13, 2020

On Saturday night September 12, 2020, John Longwalker and Geert Lovink ('We Are Not Sick') launched their theory-music album Sad by Design in OT 301 in Amsterdam (info on the…

INC Longform Reader – Introduction: Celebrating Five Years of Online Tech Critique

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Miriam Rasch, August 27, 2020

It is with joy that we present Let’s Get Physical: A Sample of INC Longforms, 2015-2020 (INC Reader #13), which gathers thirteen essays that have been published in our INC…

To Be Continued… An Interview on Seriality (Part II)

In NO FUN, by Jess Henderson, August 13, 2020

This is the second part of an interview on serial media with Ryan Engley, Professor of Media Studies at Pomona College and one-half of the ‘Why Theory’ podcast. In Part…

Patrick Lichty: Zoom Burnout, Teletopics and the Age of Covid

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Geert Lovink, August 11, 2020

Agony and the Ecstasy: Zoom Burnout, Teletopics and the Age of Covid by Patrick Lichty The era of Covid lockdown is Zoom-time. Although at the time of this writing, the…

To Be Continued… An Interview on Seriality (Part I)

In NO FUN, by Jess Henderson, August 6, 2020

With Ryan Engley. Professor of Media Studies at Pomona College, and one-half of the ‘Why Theory’ podcast. To listen to the Why Theory podcast is to sit in a room…

Delete Your Profile, Not People, Comment on Cancel Culture

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, August 5, 2020

by Geert Lovink (official version first published on Eurozine, August 5, 2020) “The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he’s in…

LAVA BRIGADE: LAVA #2 / AIR & EARTH & FIRE

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Geert Lovink, July 22, 2020

"I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion." Henry David Thoreau, Resistance to Civil Government. Please check the CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS for the new…

‘Counter speed with a blossoming of un-immediacy’: interview on Urgent Publishing

In Making Public, by Miriam Rasch, June 25, 2020

For their upcoming podcast series where researchers in the ARIAS network talk about their projects, Morgane Billuart and Katie Clarke asked me to introduce Making Public and the urgent publishing…

The Speculative Design of Immaculate Motherhood

In Algorithmic Anxiety , by Patricia, June 24, 2020

This article was first published by DigiCult by Patricia de Vries In the next five years, the artificial womb will become a medical reality. Ectogenesis, outside-the-womb gestation, is increasingly viable…

On the Basis of Face: Biometric Art as Critical Practice, its History and Politics

In INC Longform, by Devon Schiller, June 22, 2020

In September 2019 I visited Linz (Austria), the UNESCO City of Media Arts, where I attended the 40th Anniversary of the Ars Electronica Festival, 'the most time-honored media arts festival…

Natalia Stanusch: I Present You with Myself–On the Evolution of the Emoji

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Geert Lovink, June 4, 2020

I Present You with Myself: Facebook Avatars and Apple Memoji, or a Brief Account of the Evolution of Emoji* By Natalia Stanusch While swiping through Facebook’s people you might know…

Anonymize Your Online Footprint-Info Security for Direct Action

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Geert Lovink, June 1, 2020

Internet-related tips for protesters (document in development here) Whether you are protesting in person or working in digital spaces (or both) covering your browsing habits, metadata, and search histories is…

In Making Public, by Barbara Dubbeldam, May 20, 2020

The User Condition 06: How to Name Our Computer Monoculture?

In ENTREPRECARIAT, by Silvio Lorusso, May 13, 2020

A general question, to start with: What are today’s socio-technical conditions embedded in hardware and software that shape a computer user? There are various issues that make such question too…

Selfies Under Quarantine: Students Report Back to Rome (Final Episode)

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Donatella Della Ratta, May 8, 2020

Episode 1 with introduction: https://networkcultures.org/blog/2020/04/09/selfies-under-quarantine/ Italian translation: https://not.neroeditions.com/selfie-dalla-quarantena/. Episode 2: https://networkcultures.org/blog/2020/04/16/selfies-under-quarantine-episode-2/ Episode 3: https://networkcultures.org/blog/2020/04/23/selfies-under-quarantine-students-report-back-to-rome-episode-3/ Episode 4: https://networkcultures.org/blog/2020/05/01/selfies-under-quarantine-students-report-back-to-rome-episode-4/  Video Episode: https://networkcultures.org/blog/2020/06/27/video-episode/ Episode 5 (final episode): DIGITAL IS THE NEW ‘NORMAL’ In collaboration…

Coronavirus and Web 2.0: Philosophical Questions and Answers by Lorenza Saettone

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Geert Lovink, May 6, 2020

A new INC essay, Coronavirus and Web 2.0: Philosophical Questions and Answers by Lorenza Saettone, now available, in Italian, here as pdf and here as an e-pub file. Thanks a…

Selfies Under Quarantine: Students Report Back to Rome (Episode 4)

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Donatella Della Ratta, May 1, 2020

Episode 1 with introduction: https://networkcultures.org/blog/2020/04/09/selfies-under-quarantine/ Episode 2: https://networkcultures.org/blog/2020/04/16/selfies-under-quarantine-episode-2/ Episode 3: https://networkcultures.org/blog/2020/04/23/selfies-under-quarantine-students-report-back-to-rome-episode-3/ Italian translation: https://not.neroeditions.com/selfie-dalla-quarantena/. Episode 4: LOVE (NOT) AT FIRST SIGHT In collaboration with Danielle, Shaina, Briana, Jackie, Marta, Gabriella, Sydney, Elena, Sophia and Natalia This week we read  excerpts from Eva…

Telling the Bigger Video Story-Interview with Natalie Bookchin by Geert Lovink

In Video Vortex, by Geert Lovink, April 28, 2020

Natalie Bookchin’s work is synonymous with the Video Vortex network and the rise of YouTube. Whereas we got to know each other’s work in the turbulent net.art late nineties years,…

Zefi Kavvadia: No Country for Old Tweets

In Video Vortex, by Tommaso Campagna, April 28, 2020

An archivist’s-in-training impressions of life in the times of social networks By Zefi Kavvadia I am (training to be) a (digital) archivist. Coming from a more “traditional” humanities background (literature…

COVID-19 Diary: All Roads Lead To Lofi

In NO FUN, by Jess Henderson, April 26, 2020

In this edition of my COVID-19 Diaries I try to cyberflâneur, only to end up at lofi beats. Again, and again, and again.   5th April 2020: “Our very existence…

Slices of Life from LA

In NO FUN, by Jess Henderson, April 25, 2020

Our view of the US at present is obscured by the news, from our position in Europe. Here are dispatches from across the city of Los Angeles, reporting from life…

Selfies Under Quarantine: Students Report Back to Rome (Episode 3)

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Donatella Della Ratta, April 23, 2020

Episode 1 with introduction: https://networkcultures.org/blog/2020/04/09/selfies-under-quarantine/ Episode 2: https://networkcultures.org/blog/2020/04/16/selfies-under-quarantine-episode-2/ Episode 3: LOVE AND SEX IN TIMES OF COVID-19 In collaboration with Danielle, Shaina, Briana, Jackie, Marta, Gabriella, Sydney, Elena, Sophia and Natalia This week’s readings: Excerpts from Eva Illouz’s Cold Intimacies. The…

Ben Grosser-Geert Lovink Dialogue on Media Art in the Age of Platform Capitalism

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, April 23, 2020

US new media artist Ben Grosser and I met at the 2013 Unlike Us #3 Institute of Network Cultures event in Amsterdam where he presented his Demetricator, a free web…

remarks on corona video witness accounts

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, April 22, 2020

I have been limiting my news intake since week 2 of the corona crisis, saving it up for the evening, when I read the physical papers (Het Parool and NRC)…

Selfies Under Quarantine: Student Report Back to Rome (Episode 2)

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Donatella Della Ratta, April 16, 2020

‘We wait. We are bored. No, don’t protest, we are bored to death, there’s no denying it. Good. A diversion comes along and what do we do? We let it…

COVID-19 Diary: Take It Easy Baby

In NO FUN, by Jess Henderson, April 15, 2020

  Take It Easy Baby In this edition of my COVID-19 Diaries I interrupt empathy-talk, question the romantic power of streamed TV, and learn about 'Explainerism'.   29th March 2020:…

Dispatches from the Quarantine 05: Salvatore Iaconesi

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Silvio Lorusso, April 15, 2020

A dispatch from Salvatore Iaconesi, artist and technologist based in Rome We are fragile. Of so many different frailties. The state of quarantine makes us touch the borders of these…

Selfies Under Quarantine: Students Report Back to Rome

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Donatella Della Ratta, April 9, 2020

On March 5, 2020, the Italian government ordered a lockdown for all schools. A few days later, now a month ago (feels like ages), on March 9, all Italian cities,…

This Level of Metaphysics ain’t no Shit-Geert Lovink interviewed by Bram Ieven

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, April 9, 2020

(first published on April 8, 2020, without introduction, by 3AM Magazine here) This level of metaphysics ain’t no shit Interview with Geert Lovink  by Bram Ieven (Utrecht-Amsterdam, early April 2020)…

Link list on bitcoin & blockchain, libra and other MoneyLab issues (part 8)

In MoneyLab, by Geert Lovink, April 8, 2020

(For the record, this is an ancient link list, from the pre-coronavirus days, remember? /GL) Virtual Non-Con Conference, April 3-5, 2020 https://noncon.org/ Is it Copernicus—exploring the decentralization of money and…

On Digital Nihilism and Techno-Sadness, Interview with Geert Lovink (for Cyberzone)

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, April 7, 2020

Interview with Geert Lovink by Marcello Faletra for Cyberzone Magazine (Italy) (This email interview was conducted in July 2019 and turned out to be one of my favorites. I never…

Dictatorship 4.0: The Algerian Open-air Prison

In Video Vortex, by Tommaso Campagna, April 6, 2020

 Article by Miguel Oliveros Mediavilla  The Islamist republic of Algeria held its last presidential election on December 12th 2019. The winner, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, has replaced the country's former president, Abdelaziz…

Intervista di Angelica Ceccato: Sapere ombra, lock-in e rivendicazione della gratuità

In ENTREPRECARIAT, by Silvio Lorusso, April 6, 2020

Angelica Ceccato sta lavorando alla sua tesi per il Master in Estetica dell'Université Paris8. Per questo motivo mi ha posto qualche domanda su Entreprecariat, cultura digitale e creazione artistica contemporanea.…

Out now: TOD#35 The Arab Archive: Mediated Memories and Digital Flows

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Barbara Dubbeldam, April 3, 2020

INC is proud to announce the publication of The Arab Archive, edited by Donatella Della Ratta, Kay Dickinson, and Sune Haugbolle. As the revolutions across the Arab world that came…

In Making Public, by Barbara Dubbeldam, March 31, 2020

In Making Public, by Barbara Dubbeldam, March 31, 2020

Letizia Chiappini: Why I feel unsafe and stay in the Netherlands

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Geert Lovink, March 25, 2020

It’s early morning and the Italian news is dramatic. The Corona virus hits Northern Italy with a magnitude comparable to China. My mother and my grandmother are there, alone. Confined…

The User Condition 02: A Tentative Chronology of the Industrialization of Web Interfaces (work in progress)

In ENTREPRECARIAT, by Silvio Lorusso, March 11, 2020

  Apple's "revolutionary user interfaces" In a previous post, I hypothesized that the evolution of web user interfaces can be understood as their progressive automation which, following the paradigm of industrialization,…

Ulay’s Proposition: Two last words — my interpretation: death simple

In Performing the Internet, by Nancy Mauro-Flude, 05/03/2020

Valē Ulay - a shining Nucleus in the world of Performance Art. He radiated commitment to freedom and responsibility to all he came in contact with. When I first met…

Propositions on the Organizational Form by Geert Lovink & Ned Rossiter

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, March 4, 2020

This essay was written in response, and published as an afterword, to three texts that deal with organization theory, written by Reinhold Martin, Timon Beyes and Lisa Conrad. They were…

Artists and Automated Decision Making: A lutruwita (Tasmanian) Point of View

In Performing the Internet, by Nancy Mauro-Flude, 01/03/2020

This Opinon Piece appeared in an edited from in The Mercury, p.23 In 2008 I returned home after 2 decades of treading the (key)boards (on stage and on computers, often,…

The Thorny Question of Art and Economy: A Conversation Piece

In Performing the Internet, by Nancy Mauro-Flude, 24/02/2020

This is a staged conversation to consider the thorny question of Artists and Business anew. Rather than harnessing ‘creativity’ as a driver of productivity and economic growth, what radically different…

Making Relationships Public

In Making Public, by Jorinde, February 19, 2020

In 'Governance and Scalability: Circles of trust and federated platforms', a previous blog by Cristina Ampatzidou and Irina Shapiro, editors/publishers of respectively Amateur Cities and Open Set, Platform 2 Platform…

Governance and Scalability: Circles of trust and federated platforms

In Making Public, by Campatzidou, February 6, 2020

Independent publishing platforms are often small in size and human resources and usually not able to afford advertising and other forms of paid visibility to increase their audiences. In the…

Digital Decay + Digital Boredom

In Living Industry, by Maisa Imamovic, January 30, 2020

On 23rd of January-2020, I had been invited to give a presentation at Bakken & Bæck, and publicly reflect on the topic of Digital Decay, for their DDD event series. The…

Geert Lovink: Requiem for the Network

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, January 28, 2020

(This essay was written in August 2019 for the INC/Transmediale co-publication The Eternal Network: The Ends and Becomings of Network Culture that came out on January 28, 2020 at the…

Interview with Geert Lovink on Social Media Blues (for art.art)

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, January 13, 2020

Original here: https://art.art/blog/2020-the-year-mindful-digital-consumption-will-finally-trend-interview-with-media-theorist-geert-lovink/. The interview was done via Skype. By Daria Kravchuk and Maria Efimova (art.art) You are known for your work on the negative psychological effects of Internet addiction,…

Dispersed publications of 2019 by Geert Lovink

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, January 10, 2020

- Geert Lovink & Donatella della Rattta, Bridging the gap between technology and progressive politics, Social media offers a collective fantasy that some call 'direct democracy', in: The Progressive Post,…

Interview with Geert Lovink by Susana Picos for Librújula Magazine

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, January 10, 2020

Original English email exchange with Geert Lovink by Susana Picos for Librújula Magazine Spanish version: http://librujula.com/actualidad/2625-internet-esta-roto-otras-redes-sociales-son-posibles Susana Picos: Is there a risk that what we experience as ‘social’ will be…

Notes on the Networked Psyche–Exploring Online Hyper-Sensibilities

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, January 6, 2020

Essay by Geert Lovink, first published on Eurozine: https://www.eurozine.com/notes-on-the-networked-psyche/. “Don’t hope, cope.” Tomi Ungerer—“Just forgot that life is pain and then remembered again.” Tweet—“Truth is like poetry, and most people…

Interesting exchange with Martha Cambronero for ctxt magazine

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, December 18, 2019

https://ctxt.es/es/20191218/Culturas/30021/geert-lovink-redes-sociales-capitalismo-de-plataforma-soberania-digital-marta-cambronero.htm “Las recomendaciones de los algoritmos nos están machacando” The English original of the email interview with Geert Lovink by Martha Cambronero for the Spanish revista contexto CTXT nr. 251…

English original of interview with 20 minutos (Spanish news site)

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, December 16, 2019

El bloqueo de las redes y la bomba emocional que nos ha atrapad-- Geert Lovink dice en ‘Tristes por diseño’ que estamos hartos de internet, pero no podemos dejarlo ni…

De automatisering de-automatiseren; De-automating Automation

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Miriam Rasch, December 13, 2019

>> English below Image by Nicki Varkevisser Bijdrage aan de Spui25-bijeenkomst De roman en het geschreven woord in tijden van technologisering, ter gelegenheid van de verschijning van Maxim Februari’s laatste…

Interview with Geert Lovink by Andreu Jerez (in Spanish)

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, December 7, 2019

Orginally published in El Periodico, December 6, 2019 by Andreu Jerez: https://amp.elperiodico.com/es/mas-periodico/20191206/geert-lovink-la-idea-de-facebook-como-comunidad-es-de-chiste-7763593 La crisis del 'brexit' y el escándalo de Cambridge Analytica en el 2016 acabaron con la imagen idílica…

ML#7: Payments and the Platforms: Monetization of the Social

In MoneyLab, by Feline Koelemij, December 6, 2019

Session 3 Lana Swarts argues that if national currency represents liberal democracy, and Bitcoin represents some combination of techno-libertarianism and anarcho-capitalism, then Libra represents Silicon Valley feudalism. Andrea Fumagalli historicizes the liberalization of…

ML#7: Critical Research Methods on Cryptocurrencies and other Blockchains.

In MoneyLab, by Lukas Beckenbauer, December 6, 2019

A Workshop by Balazs Bodo and Alexandra Giannopoulou. A visualization of ERC20 token transfers on the Ethereum blockchain by Peter Ruppel and Friedhelm Victor, May 2019. (tokengallery.net) The workshop‚ Critical…

ML#7: Financial Hacking: From Dark Web Smokescreens to White-Collar Crime

In MoneyLab, by Maisa Imamovic, November 29, 2019

Session 2 Josephine Wolff provides an account of the larger history and development of cybercrime business models, from the theft of payment card data to identity fraud and ransomware. Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn discusses…

From Historical Melancholia to Technology-Induced Sadness-Interview with Geert Lovink by Hande Tombaz

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, November 29, 2019

‘SAD BY DESIGN’: Interview with Geert Lovink by architect and researcher Hande Tombaz Hande Tombaz: You define sadness as a possibility of reflection. The way you describe the term sadness…

ML#7: New Horizons and Counter Narratives

In MoneyLab, by Sepp Eckenhaussen, November 26, 2019

Session 1 Speakers: Micky Lee, Brett Scott, Ana Teixeira Pinto, Reijer Pieter Hendrikse Moderator: Geert Lovink Presentations and bios here. ------ MoneyLab #7 kicked off with a session of fireworks.…

MoneyLab #7: Two Highlights

In ENTREPRECARIAT, by Silvio Lorusso, November 19, 2019

Last week I attended the MoneyLab, now at its seventh iteration and dedicated to “feminist economics, social payments, corporate crime and the ‘blokechain’”. Some years have passed since I took part…

Daniël de Zeeuw PhD Ceremony: Between Mass and Mask-The Profane Media Logic of Anonymous Imageboard Culture

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Geert Lovink, November 11, 2019

On 18 December 2019 Daniël de Zeeuw will defend his dissertation before a committee of learned colleagues at the University of Amsterdam. He happily invites all of you to attend…

1990s! Interview with Geert Lovink by Georgina Cojocaru/ARTA

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, November 3, 2019

(This interview, conducted via email in July 2018, appeared in the double issue, edited by Georgina Cojocaru, on 'Art & Digitality' of the Romanian art magazine Arta. The text below…

Pumpin’ and Dumpin’

In MoneyLab, by Maisa Imamovic, October 30, 2019

Pumpin’ and Dumpin’ November 15, 8pm-1am Mike’s Badhuistheater Boerhaaveplein 28, Amsterdam badhuistheater.nl Free admission. Curated by Maisa Imamović. Welcome to the closing night of MoneyLab #7. Come and enjoy this…

Interview with Geert Lovink by Paula Corroto on Sad by Design

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, October 30, 2019

Interview with Geert Lovink for the Spanish-Mexican magazine Letras Libres by Paula Corroto, conducted for the launch of the Sad by Design translation into Spanish, TRISTES POR DISEÑO - Las…

Link list on bitcoin & blockchain, libra and other MoneyLab issues (part 7)

In MoneyLab, by Geert Lovink, October 24, 2019

MakerDAO decentralized stablecoin, collateral loans, and community governance https://makerdao.com/en/ "The desire to travel far away and start a new currency will become a powerful driver of human expansion into space”…

Session 3

In MoneyLab, by Maisa Imamovic, October 17, 2019

Payments and the Platforms: Monetization of the Social With Libra Facebook attempts to financialize the social by monetizing communication, including the communication of nearly 2 billion so-called unbanked. It is…

Session 1

In MoneyLab, by Barbara Dubbeldam, October 17, 2019

New Horizons & Counter Narratives This panoramic opening session offers an overview of the diversity of topics on the horizon. An alternative political economy is not merely about including voices…

Ruben Brave reports from post-truth conference in Malta

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Geert Lovink, October 16, 2019

By Ruben Brave On October 10/11 2019 I presented our applied science project Make Media Great Again (MMGA) at the Post-Truth Society from Fake News, Datafication and Mass Surveillance to…

Sessions

In MoneyLab, by Barbara Dubbeldam, October 16, 2019

Thursday 14-11 Session 1 New Horizons & Counter Narratives During this panel, Micky Lee offers a feminist political economic and postcolonial critique of the Tulipomania discourse. Brett Scott discusses the…

INTERSTITIAL podcast with Geert Lovink on Sad by Design

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, October 15, 2019

Listen to the 10 minutes podcast INTERSTITIAL EP008: Sad by Design here: https://thinkbelt.org/shows/interstitial. Read the transcript of the radio interview with Geert Lovink by David Huber here: We are living…

‘Het Internet’, in real life-fetisjisme en Søren Kierkegaard

In Algorithmic Anxiety , by Patricia, October 15, 2019

Waar de cyberspace eerst de mogelijkheid van een utopische ruimte leek voor te stellen, lijkt het internet vandaag de dag meer op het paard van Troje. Van de talloze internetkritieken…

Impressions of ‘Space is the Place’ Installation @Droog

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, October 11, 2019

Exhibition SPACE IS THE PLACE @Droog, October 9 - November 31, 2019 , Staalstraat 7A/B, Amsterdam. Open daily from 9 AM - 7 PM. From the website: "Get lost in…

Internetkritik-“Abschalten ist keine Lösung” Interview mit Geert Lovink

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, October 10, 2019

https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/gesellschaft/netzkritik-interview-mit-dem-internetkritiker-geert-lovink-a-1289570.html Wir sind online, immer und überall. Was macht das mit uns? Der Internetpionier Geert Lovink über programmierte Traurigkeit, gewollte Facebook-Abhängigkeit - und warum er nicht wegschauen kann. Ein Interview…

Harness the Power of a Fluid Identity with 3 Simple Strategies

In INC Longform, by Marloes De Valk, September 24, 2019

Don’t mind me while I drive through your neighborhood taking photo’s of your house, gathering your emails, passwords and other private information from your wifi network. It’s nothing personal, I’m…

German Sad by Design Edition: Digitaler Nihilismus

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, September 11, 2019

The German translation of Sad by Design (Pluto Press) just came out: https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-4975-8/digitaler-nihilismus/ Geert Lovink, Digitaler Nihilismus, Thesen zur dunklen Seite der Plattformen, Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld, 2019. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram,…

Post-Platform Desires: Build 1, 2, 3 New Beginnings

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, September 1, 2019

The text below is written as an introduction to a week-long discussion on the empyre email list in which I participate, with the topic STAY UNFINISHED, YOURS SINCERELY, moderated by…

On the Playful Veneer of Onlife

In ENTREPRECARIAT, by Silvio Lorusso, August 23, 2019

Cover image of "Humans of Flat Design" Twitter account For an upcoming project, designer Annett Höland asked me to react to a passage taken from Vilém Flusser's essay on "the…

New Formats for Online and Hybrid Quality Content: Best Practices /end

In Making Public, by Miriam Rasch, July 9, 2019

The last in our series reviewing best practices for publishing research information for a broad audience focuses on formats. Which experimental formats pushing quality are noteworthy? Of course, this is…

The user experience of privacy in incumbents and digital banks

In MoneyLab, by Inte Gloerich, July 5, 2019

This post is part of a research project in the Minor Designing User Research at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences about the difference between apps of traditional and digital…

Chants from the Urgent Publishing Survey

In Making Public, by Sepp Eckenhaussen, July 3, 2019

Where do we read? On the phone! What do we read? Specific recommendations! How much do we read? An hour per day! How do we read? Together <3 On the…

The Hour of Cyber-Restyling-Interview with Geert Lovink for Avvenire

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, June 19, 2019

Interview with Geert Lovink by Simone Paliaga for the Italian newspaper Avvenire https://www.avvenire.it/agora/pagine/manipolati-e-sfruttati-lora-del-cyberrisveglio Simone Paliaga: The English title of your book is “Sad by Design”. Why do you talk about…

Rachel O’ Dwyer: The Bank of Facebook

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Geert Lovink, June 19, 2019

Marshall McLuhan argued that money is communication. This rings particularly true at a time when so many platforms are entering the payments space. The US payments app Venmo has created…

Menno Grootveld & Geert Lovink: Links na de Europese verkiezingen

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, June 18, 2019

Na de Europese verkiezingen lijkt links definitief de weg kwijt. Eind mei 2019 werden in heel Europa verkiezingen voor het Europees Parlement gehouden, en in Spanje gemeenteraadsverkiezingen. De gevreesde 'bruine…

Post-Truth Publishing

In Making Public, by Inte Gloerich, June 5, 2019

Urgent Publishing report by Inte Gloerich, 15-05-19. Pre-Conference Night: Post-Truth Publishing.

The Afterlife of Publications

In Making Public, by Barbara Dubbeldam, June 3, 2019

Urgent Publishing report by Minke Vos, 16-05-19. Session 3: The Afterlife of Publications.

Memes as Means

In Making Public, by Sepp Eckenhaussen, May 29, 2019

Urgent Publishing report by Sepp Eckenhaussen, 16-05-19. Session 2: Memes as Means.

All Sources Are Broken, a Workshop by Labor Neunzehn (Report)

In Making Public, by Silvio Lorusso, May 22, 2019

On the final day of the Urgent Publishing conference, Labor Neunzehn run the workshop “All Sources Are Broken”. Founded by Valentina Besegher and Alessandro Massobrio, Labor Neunzehn is an artist-run…

Visualizing a publication’s parts and elements and the relationships in between

In Making Public, by Kimmy Spreeuwenberg, May 21, 2019

Testing a manual for a modular publishing process. What are the implications of modularity for the various steps in the publishing process and the resulting ‘stand-alone object’? This was the…

Federated Publishing: Roel Roscam Abbing in Conversation with Florian Cramer (Report)

In Making Public, by Silvio Lorusso, May 20, 2019

Urgent Publishing report by Silvio Lorusso. Lunch session on 17-05-19. Federated Publishing: Roel Roscam Abbing in conversation with Florian Cramer (Report)

About Maisa Imamović

In Living Industry, by Maisa Imamovic, May 10, 2019

Maisa Imamović is an Amsterdam-based writer, designer, and web-developer who likes to draw. She graduated from Gerrit Rietveld's Architectural Design department in 2018. She also pursued the Full-Stack Web Development certificate…

The Controversial Archive: Negotiating Horror Images in Syria

In INC Longform, by Donato Spinelli, May 7, 2019

By Enrico De Angelis. On the 4th of April 2017, early morning, Adham al-Hussein intercepts a call with his walkie-talkie. The call informs him that a chemical attack is underway in Khan…

Vulnerability of the Networked Generation: Interview with Geert Lovink by Lovro Japundžić

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, April 15, 2019

https://www.kulturpunkt.hr/content/vulnerability-networked-generation For Kulturpunkt.hr, recorded in Zagreb on March 29, 2019 According to the classical definition, melancholy is similar to sadness, at least in its manifestation of loss of interest for…

Today’s Exhausting Distraction: Interview with Geert Lovink by Teresa Numerico for Il Manifesto

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, April 6, 2019

Interview with Geert Lovink by Teresa Numerico about the recently published Italian translation of Sad by Design (EGEA/Bocconi Editore: Nichilismo digitale, L’altra faccia della piattaformea), for the Il Manifesto newspaper,…

The Art of Financial Hacking – EU Edition

In MoneyLab, by Inte Gloerich, April 4, 2019

By: Emma Kraak This article is a report on the Art of Financial Hacking workshop that took place in Brussels in April 2018. In this extensive four-day workshop, Paolo Cirio,…

Citizen D podcast 042: James Bridle and the new dark age

In State Machines, by Inte Gloerich, April 2, 2019

By Državljan D. (Citizen D) We sat down with James Bridle who was visiting Ljubljana to give a talk at the Aksioma gallery to talk about the evergrowing problem of…

Unpublishing: A Problem of Access

In Making Public, by Miriam Rasch, April 2, 2019

By Nadine Rotem-Stibbe Unpublish – ‘make content that has previously been published online unavailable to the public’. A stark reminder that this is easier said than done comes from the…

Blog Report MoneyLab #6: An Experiment in Partial Ownership

In MoneyLab, by Inte Gloerich, March 29, 2019

By: Mohammed Alsharif (frontend developer at Neufund), Niels Poensgen (music producer and programmer), Marlene Ronstedt (writer and media artist), Ahmed Alsharif (programmer and researcher at TU Berlin), Moana Holenstein (music…

Interview with Ora 24/release of Nichilismo digitale

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, March 25, 2019

On March 21, 2019 my new book Sad by Design, On Platform Nihilism came out, first in an Italian translation, published by EGEA/Bocconi Editore in Milan: Nichilismo digitale, L'altra faccia…

Conjuring Spirits in the Black Box of Finance

In Algorithmic Anxiety , by Patricia, March 21, 2019

Conjuring Spirits in the Black Box of Finance by Patricia de Vries This essay appeared in State Machines: Reflections and Actions at the Edge of Digital Citizenship, Finance, and Art.…

Vvitching out for each other: Activating the Textures of Post-Digital Aesthetics

In Performing the Internet, by Nancy Mauro-Flude, 20/03/2019

Practitioners who engage with post digital aesthetics are concerned with processes in art-making and conceptual frameworks that assume digitality rather than treat it as an exception. Its tools are ubiquitous,…

Library Stack: connecting (hybrid) publications and libraries

In Making Public, by Miriam Rasch, March 19, 2019

Check out Library Stack, a project that works towards connecting artistic publications and library databases, and interested in getting in touch with relevant partners. Here's a short intro: Library Stack…

Algorithmic Hate: Brenton Tarrant and the Dark Social Web by Luke Munn

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Geert Lovink, March 19, 2019

"From where did you receive/research/develop your beliefs? The internet, of course." -Brenton Tarrant On Friday, March 15th 2019, at 1:40pm, Brenton Tarrant walked into the first of two mosques in…

Oliver Leistert: Object-oriented scarcity as a technology of governmentality

In MoneyLab, by Geert Lovink, March 18, 2019

Lecture at MoneyLab #6, Siegen (Germany), March 7/8, 2019. Blockchains are technologies of control. Control is the capacity to govern events as structured items. Blockchains are interesting because of the…

What’s going on? Het essay in de wereld – About the essay, now also in English

In Making Public, by Miriam Rasch, March 15, 2019

Written for and presented at the launch of The world in yourself: Dutch and Flemish literature of the 21st century in sixty essays, 7 February 2019, Spui25 Amsterdam. After receiving…

Blog Report MoneyLab #6: Monetizing the Social

In MoneyLab, by Barbara Dubbeldam, March 14, 2019

Written by Marvin Landwehr Moderating the closing session „Monetizing the social – socializing money“ co-organizer Carolin Gerlitz closed the arch of MoneyLab#6 by picking up questions from the opening session…

On Julia Janssen–The Attention Fair–Installation at MoneyLab#6

In MoneyLab, by Geert Lovink, March 4, 2019

You are the Product of your own Information By Julia Janssen About my installation The Attention Fair at MoneyLab #6 in Siegen (March 7/8 2019). The Internet has enriched our…

The Halos of Devices: The Neo-Nimbus of Electronic Objects

In INC Longform, by Sepp Eckenhaussen, February 21, 2019

We live in a world of glowing rectangles. Our devices emit a bluish light, akin to that from the cerulean sky. Even when they sleep, computers softly pulse tiny LEDs…

Democratizing Technological Innovation

In MoneyLab, by Inte Gloerich, February 15, 2019

By: Menno Grootveld Twenty-five years after the breakthrough of the internet to the general public, there is little left of the enthusiasm that accompanied that breakthrough originally. In 1993, the…

VideoVortex XII in Malta: Call for Lectures/Theory Presentations

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, February 14, 2019

Conference: September 27-28, 2019 Please submit to: submissions@vv12.org Deadline for lectures/theory contributions: March 15, 2019. Please also look at our website where you can read the general call: http://vv12.org VideoVortex,…

Lees nu: ‘Mensen met een mening’ – Kunstkritiek online

In The Art of Criticism, by Miriam Rasch, 12/02/2019

Dit artikel van de hand van Miriam van Ommeren verscheen eerder in Wie bepaalt de waarde(n)?, een publicatie (dd. november 2018) van Kunsten 92 over de waardering van cultuur vanuit…

Abstracts

In MoneyLab, by Inte Gloerich, February 5, 2019

1. Anthropology of Money Erhard Schüttpelz: For the Love of Money: A Braudelian Perspective Starting with F.B. Steiner’s Notes on Comparative Economics and Paul Bohannan’s Study of Tiv Exchange Spheres,…

Extracting Computerized Desires – a Review of Clickmine

In State Machines, by Inte Gloerich, February 5, 2019

By: Tim Brouwer On the website clickmine.click visitors stumble upon a computer-generated grassland, which one can only interact with by clicking it. This browser-based game, developed by artist and software…

Conference

In Making Public, by Kelly Mostert, January 22, 2019

15-17 May 2019, the Institute of Network Cultures, ArtEZ University of the Arts and Willem de Kooning Academy organized Urgent Publishing, a 3-day event with discussions, explorations and experiments about…

Sad by Design (the essay)

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, January 20, 2019

(first published online by Eurozine, January 10, 2019) ‘Solitary tears are not wasted.’ René Char – ‘I dreamt about autocorrect last night.’ Darcie Wilder – ‘The personal is impersonal.’ Mark…

Good Data Ethics

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Barbara Dubbeldam, January 16, 2019

Good Data edited by Angela Daly, S. Kate Devitt and Monique Mann will be published by INC in January 2019. The book launch will be 24 Januari @ Spui25. In anticipation of…

À propos de l’idéologie des réseaux sociaux–Par Geert Lovink

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, January 14, 2019

(This is a French translation of my essay On the Social Media Ideology, which was published in September 2016 in E-flux Journal #75. The translation was made for the May…

Let’ talk about 2011–the year of protests and uprisings

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, January 10, 2019

My life has been defined by the issue how the organization of social movements relates to the 'media question'. And so, this remarkable year, defined by the term Facebook revolution,…

Good Data are Better Data

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Barbara Dubbeldam, January 7, 2019

Good Data edited by Angela Daly, S. Kate Devitt and Monique Mann will be published by INC in January 2019. The book launch will be 24 Januari @ Spui25. In anticipation of…

Link list on bitcoin & blockchain, demonitization and other MoneyLab issues (part 5)

In MoneyLab, by Geert Lovink, December 24, 2018

Phi: a platform that connects people in remote off-grid communities to clean, low-cost energy http://futurearchitectureplatform.org/projects/73faa23f-564b-4df1-92f9-595fd2e63465/ Facebook is developing a cryptocurrency for WhatsApp https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-21/facebook-is-said-to-develop-stablecoin-for-whatsapp-transfers Pump-and-Dump Groups Become ‘Widespread’ as Market Remains…

Memes and Everyday Fascism: A Triptych on the Collective Techno-Subconscious as Incubator of a Men’s Ideal

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Sepp Eckenhaussen, December 21, 2018

  Historians tend to define fascism in terms of its historical manifestations, sometimes warning not to (over)use it in contemporary contexts. Yet, in the past few years, the world has…

Call for Lectures/Theory Presentations VideoVortex XII, Malta, September 27-28, 2019

In Video Vortex, by Geert Lovink, December 19, 2018

VideoVortex, an artistic network that deals with the aesthetics and politics of online video, will gather again, this time in Malta, for a two day conference/event and a separate exhibition.…

Brave New Screens: Soma, FOMO, and Friendly Fascism after 1984

In INC Longform, by Sepp Eckenhaussen, December 18, 2018

Super Bowl commercials teach us how to conceive of surveillance. While Apple promises to fight Big Brother with a personal computer, Coca-Cola invites us to think different, i.e. positively about…

Bridging the Gap between Technology and Progressive Politics in Europe

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, December 4, 2018

The text below is a proposal, a strategic contribution and we are curious what you make of the ideas and questions we raise. For sure there are more topics and…

Precarious by Design–My Preface for Silvio Lorusso’s Entreprecariat

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, December 1, 2018

I am proud to present the preface I wrote for Silvio Lorusso's book, which came out in November 2018, in Italian, published by Krisis Publishing in Brescia, Italy. Here is…

Radiotheory and the future of FM–Interview mit Geert Lovink (in German)

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, November 26, 2018

„Heutzutage ist vor allem das Fehlen der sozialen Einbildungskraft das Problem" Interview mit dem Medientheoretiker und Netzkritiker Geert Lovink von Ivan Sterzinger Dieses Interview wurde für die Fabrikzeitung geführt, einem…

Torrent-like Publishing

In Making Public, by Afincato, November 19, 2018

As part of the initial material contribution to the platform topic of the Making Public! RAAK project, and specifically thinking about networked publishing, I immediately focused on the recent new…

The Poverty of Praxis and the Web

In ENTREPRECARIAT, by Silvio Lorusso, November 15, 2018

I’m jotting down some quick notes on what seems to have become an obsessive thought: the relationship between poiesis and praxis, as understood by Hannah Arendt in The Human Condition.…

WORK & PLAY & INSIST (Milano, 24/11)

In ENTREPRECARIAT, by Silvio Lorusso, November 12, 2018

Il 24 novembre sarò a Milano per WORK AND PLAY AND INSIST, una giornata di workshop, installazioni, panel e live set a cura di Krisis Publishing, che presenta il nuovo…

Algorithmic Arrogance: Data-Analysis Tools for Digital Publishing and Their Politics

In Making Public, by Sepp Eckenhaussen, November 12, 2018

Enlarge impact. Enhance sales. Spot talent. Get cited. Build communities. Read freely. Analyze complexities. These are just some of the promises made by the recent wave of software built to…

Pluralism in Digital Communities–Interview with Geert Lovink

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, November 1, 2018

Interview for the Plural think tank (https://plural.world/) In: Pluralism in Digital Communities--September 2018 Report Interviews and Analysis Participants: Emily Bitze, Jessa Lingel, Geert Lovink, Karl Schroeder, Alexandra Stiver, Clare Sullivan,…

Report on Radical Networks in Berlin

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Inte Gloerich, October 30, 2018

I went to Radical Networks in Berlin (19-21 October 2018). It was a very inspiring experience and I took notes feverishly for 3 days. The program was diverse and inclusive,…

Sonja van der Valk

In The Art of Criticism, by Barbara Dubbeldam, 25/10/2018

Axel Andersson

In The Art of Criticism, by Barbara Dubbeldam, 25/10/2018

Res Publica ex Machina: On Neocybernetic Governance and the End of Politics

In INC Longform, by Barbara Dubbeldam, October 18, 2018

In 2017, Denmark sent the first digital ambassador, Casper Klynge, to Silicon Valley. The aim of this move of ‘techplomacy’ was, as Klynge explained, not simply to distribute greetings notes…

My Name is Janez Janša (film screening) 17 November 2018, 8 pm

In State Machines, by Inte Gloerich, October 16, 2018

Documentary screening + AFTER-TALK/Q&A with the artist 17 November 2018, 8 pm Veem House for Performance Van Diemenstraat 408-410, Amsterdam Buy your tickets here A name. Everybody has one. Individuals,…

Workshop Digitale Kunstkritiek – Podcasting

In The Art of Criticism, by Inte Gloerich, 13/09/2018

19 September 2018 14:30 - 17:30 uur Hogeschool van Amsterdam In de workshop Podcast oefen je met eenvoudige opnametechniek, montage software en, misschien wel het belangrijkste: strategieën voor inhoudelijke en…

Criticism in the Post – Letters from Axel Andersson and Sonja van der Valk

In The Art of Criticism, by Barbara Dubbeldam, 11/09/2018

With the symposium Criticism in the Post (2 and 3 June, Stockholm), the Swedish initiative Kritiklabbet finished two years of investment in art criticism. Sonja van der Valk (Domein voor…

On Paratactics, Bots and Post-Colonial Finance – A Muhabbet between Ebru Yetiskin and Geert Lovink

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, September 10, 2018

Original on the ISTS website: https://stsistanbul.org/2018/08/30/on-paratactics-bots-and-post-colonial-finance-a-muhabbet-between-ebru-yetiskin-and-geert-lovink/#more-777 In 2017 Ebru Yetiskin, a member of IslanbuLab who is also an Istanbul- based sociologist and an independent curator, visited the Institute of Network…

Tim Brouwer

In INC Longform, by Kelly Mostert, August 21, 2018

Sei mesi di astinenza da Facebook

In ENTREPRECARIAT, by Silvio Lorusso, July 18, 2018

Sei mesi di astinenza da Facebook. Nel senso che per sei mesi non ho pubblicato nulla, se non in maniera per così dire omeopatica, ovvero attraverso la pagina che gestisco…

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In ENTREPRECARIAT, by Silvio Lorusso, July 10, 2018

‘That Others May Die’: Autonomous Military Technology and the Changing Ethos on the Battlefield

In INC Longform, by Miriam Rasch, June 25, 2018

As heavily reported by media in May 2018, Google announced that it won’t renew its contract with the US Defense Department for an artificial intelligence endeavor known as Project Maven.…

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In Making Public, by Kelly Mostert, June 19, 2018

In today’s digitized world, public debate can erupt from one moment to the next. These debates have a need for reliable and intelligently presented information, made available at the right…

The Internet is not a Cultural ‘Melting Pot’

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, June 8, 2018

Rough Theses on Internet & Global Politics anno 2018 by Geert Lovink (This text is based on an email interview with Polina Kolozaridi of the Moscow-based website www.internetbeyond.net. You can…

The Objectivist Drug Party \\\ Genomic Intimacy

In Algorithmic Anxiety , by Patricia, June 1, 2018

This essay was written for MU Art Space by Patricia de Vries From May 11 to July 8 2018, MU presents The Objectivist Drug Party and Genomic Intimacy, two solo-exhibitions of…

“A CV that Never Sleeps” – On LinkedIn

In ENTREPRECARIAT, by Silvio Lorusso, May 30, 2018

The writing of this essay, which was originally published on Modes of Criticism 3 under the title "LinkedIn Society",  was concluded just before a quite drastic redesign of LinkedIn's interface. In…

Fake It till You Make It – Genesis of the Entrepreneurial Precariat

In ENTREPRECARIAT, by Silvio Lorusso, May 22, 2018

Originally published on Pagina99 under the title "Vi racconto gioie (poche) e dolori dell’imprecariato". Illustration by Krisis Publishing At first glance, the main common denominator for the large demographic segment…

Be Like Elon: Entrepreneurial Spirit, Bureaucreativity and Self-Design

In ENTREPRECARIAT, by Silvio Lorusso, May 17, 2018

Tomorrow I'm giving a talk at Sandberg Instituut and that's why I was blessed with a flyer designed by the students of the graphic design department. Come and say hi,…

Link list on bitcoin & blockchain, demonitization and other MoneyLab issues (part 3)

In MoneyLab, by Geert Lovink, May 7, 2018

Part 1 of this link list can be found here: https://networkcultures.org/moneylab/2017/10/11/link-list-on-bitcoin-blockchain-demonitization-and-other-moneylab-issues/ Part 2 of this link list can be found here: https://networkcultures.org/moneylab/2018/01/25/link-list-on-bitcoin-blockchain-demonitization-and-other-moneylab-issues-part-2/ Blockchain and the Law: The Rule of Code--A…

Interfacing Counterculture and Digital Cultures: A Personal History, Interview with Geert Lovink by Valérie Schafer

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, May 1, 2018

(original posting here: https://web90.hypotheses.org/4054) During his entire life Dutch media theorist and net activist Geert Lovink has been thinking about, and struggling with, the issue of institutionalisation of social movements…

Social Media Critique with Geert Lovink–for the Ukrainian magazine Korydor

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, April 29, 2018

Interview with Geert Lovink by Taras Nazaruk This conversation was recorded online on March 14, 2018 at the very beginning of the Facebook Cambridge Analytica scandal. It was recently published,…

Divide and conquer: the future of online criticism

In The Art of Criticism, by Miriam Rasch, 25/04/2018

OR Book Going Rouge The Digital Critic: Literary Culture Online – a review by Miriam Rasch ‘Online, everyone is a critic – but only insofar as everyone is also a…

Social in the Abyss–Interview with Geert Lovink by Tuğçe Yilmaz for K24

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, April 19, 2018

Published first on March 18, 2018 by K24 in Turkish. Tuğçe Yilmaz: Social Media Abyss is the fifth volume of your ongoing investigation into critical internet culture. What is the main…

Radical Think-Tank Theory–Interview with Ralf Homann and Manuela Unverdorben

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, April 19, 2018

  By Geert Lovink How can we imagine to do radical research outside of the established academic institutions and large mainstream media? Is this possible anyway? For decades this has…

Facebook Liberation Army Link List (April 12, 2018)

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Geert Lovink, April 13, 2018

Compiled and edited by Geert Lovink & Patricia de Vries (Institute of Network Cultures) Facebook Delete Manuals https://pageflows.com/blog/delete-facebook/ https://www.ghostery.com/blog/ghostery-news/after-cambridge-analytica-scandal-how-to-delete-your-facebook-account/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2018/03/28/people-really-deleting-their-facebook-accounts-its-complicated/464109002/ https://androidreader.com/how-to-delete-your-facebook-account-step-by-step/ https://beat.10ztalk.com/2018/03/26/why-deletefacebook-is-a-bad-idea-unless-you-have-these-4-questions-answered/ https://ourdataourselves.tacticaltech.org/posts/21_delete_facebook/ Divorce Tools https://www.fastcodesign.com/90164935/want-to-fight-back-against-facebooks-algorithm-check-out-these-tools https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/facebook-container-extension/ https://ourdataourselves.tacticaltech.org/posts/21_delete_facebook/ https://degooglisons-internet.org/ Departure…

Q & A on Fake News and The Yes Men Legacy

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, April 9, 2018

Interview with Geert Lovink by Hadas Emma Kedar, including a guest appearance by Jacques Servin (The Yes Men). Hadas Emma Kedar is masters student of Media Arts Cultures in Krems/Austria,…

Let’s Talk about Social Media

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, April 7, 2018

First published in Amsterdam Alternative #17, April 2018 By Geert Lovink “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” Dr. Suess In early 2018, social media criticism has reached…

Interview: Background & Strategy of #deletefacebook

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, March 30, 2018

"Fragmentation of the internet is our key aim right now." Original: https://catharsismagazine.com/2018/03/30/geert-lovink-fragmentation/ Geert Lovink, net critic and theorist and advisory editor of Catharsis and Swagat Baruah, managing editor of Catharsis…

Der Freitag Kommentar: Für soziale Netzwerke schlägt die Stunde null

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, March 30, 2018

https://www.freitag.de/autoren/geert-lovink/das-leben-danach Das Leben danach #deletefacebook Für soziale Netzwerke schlägt die Stunde null. Her mit den Alternativen! Von Geert Lovink. In: Der Freitag, Ausgabe 13, 2018. Nach den neusten Enthüllungen über…

Plattform Politik: Ein Gespräch zwischen Stefan Heidenreich, Geert Lovink and Pit Schultz

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, March 30, 2018

http://www.carta.info/85453/plattform-politik/ Stefan Heidenreich: Warum genau wird die Cambridge Analytica - und Facebook-Affäre noch einmal aufgerollt? Die vergangenen Monate ging es schon darum, Facebook aus dem Politikgeschäft herauszudrücken. Nicht unbedingt bedauernswert.…

Platform Politics: Conversation between Stefan Heidenreich, Geert Lovink and Pit Schultz

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, March 30, 2018

This is the original, somewhat rough version of the dialogue.  The 'official' German version (translated by Stefan Heidenreich) was published on March 22, 2018 by Carta.info here. Stefan Heidenreich: Why…

Distraction and its Discontents–Ebbs and Flows in Social Media Sensibility

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, March 27, 2018

(a shorter web version of the essay is published by Eurozine here) “Never get high, on your own supply.” (Ten Crack Commandments)—The Other as Distraction: Sartre on Mindfulness (Open University…

Turing for the Masses

In INC Longform, by Leonieke Van Dipten, March 22, 2018

Somewhere on Twitter there are two automated accounts that I created a few months ago. Their names are SorryBot and PhilosophyBot and one day they’ll become the leading activists in…

Interview: Social Media Discontent after Cambridge Analytica

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, March 20, 2018

Interview with Geert Lovink by Christophe Bruchansky For Plural World Christophe Bruchansky: In your 2016 book Social Media Abyss: Critical Internet Cultures and the Force of Negation you draw a…

Join our expanding network on The Art of Criticism and participate in research and experiments

In The Art of Criticism, by Miriam Rasch, 13/03/2018

A growing international network of researchers, practitioners and organisers within the field of art and cultural criticism is forming. The aim of network is to help establish a multiplicity of…

Fake it till you make it – Genesi del precariato imprenditoriale

In ENTREPRECARIAT, by Silvio Lorusso, March 2, 2018

Pubblicato originariamente su Pagina99 sotto il titolo “Vi racconto gioie (poche) e dolori dell’imprecariato”. Illustrazione di Krisis Publishing. A prima vista, ciò che accomuna quell’ampio segmento demografico che va sotto il nome di Millennials è…

Call for Papers: An interdisciplinary book on internet-infused romantic interactions and dating practices

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Miriam Rasch, March 1, 2018

Editors: Prof. Amir Hetsroni, College of Social Sciences and Humanities – Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey and Meriç Tuncez, Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities – Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey…

Exhbition: New Imaginaries for Crypto Design, at NeMe, Cyprus

In State Machines, by Inte Gloerich, February 28, 2018

On Saturday, 10 March 2018, at 7.00pm the Institute of Network Cultures and NeMe invite you to a talk by Patricia de Vries and the opening of the exhibition New…

Fictiocracy: Media and Politics in the Age of Storytelling

In INC Longform, by Leonieke Van Dipten, February 22, 2018

Fic-ctio-cra-cy /ˈfɪkʃ(ə)krəsi/ n. pl. – cies. 1. Political regime that, implicitly or explicitly, considers the distinction between fact and fiction irrelevant. 2. A political or social unit that has such…

Crypto Design at Aksioma in Ljubljana, Slovenia

In State Machines, by Inte Gloerich, February 20, 2018

Crypto Design Workshop and Lectures at Aksioma Curated by the Institute of Network Cultures (NL) More detailed information can be found at aksioma.org/cryptodesign 6-7 March 2018 ALUO - Department for…

They Say We Can’t Meme: Politics of Idea Compression ( Geert Lovink & Marc Tuters)

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, February 11, 2018

Originally published (with illustrations) at non.copyriot.com. Spanish translation here. “I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find…

Link list on bitcoin & blockchain, demonitization and other MoneyLab issues (part 2)

In MoneyLab, by Geert Lovink, January 25, 2018

Part 1 of this link list can be found here: https://networkcultures.org/moneylab/2017/10/11/link-list-on-bitcoin-blockchain-demonitization-and-other-moneylab-issues/ Miners are not your friends https://blog.keep.network/miners-arent-your-friends-cde9b6e0e9ac Decentralization in Bitcoin and Ethereum http://hackingdistributed.com/2018/01/15/decentralization-bitcoin-ethereum/ Code Solutionism of Steve Johnson in NYT…

The Art of Criticism First Meet-up Report

In The Art of Criticism, by Miriam Rasch, 19/12/2017

Discussion on future research in the field of art criticism 20-21 November 2017, Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam     The Institute of Network Cultures, the Domain for Art Criticism,…

Notes on Networks and Contingency

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, December 15, 2017

By Geert Lovink and Ned Rossiter Original illustrated version here: http://obieg.u-jazdowski.pl/en/numery/estetyka-kontyngencji/uwagi-o-nbsp-sieciach-i-nbsp-kontyngencji Polish translation: http://obieg.u-jazdowski.pl/numery/estetyka-kontyngencji/uwagi-o-nbsp-sieciach-i-nbsp-kontyngencji “There’s no such thing as singular devices. Totality is the truth.” Günther Anders The internet is…

Open Call for works

In State Machines, by Inte Gloerich, December 6, 2017

Open Call for works State Machines is a programme of activities devoted to the investigation of new relationships between states, citizens and the stateless made possible by emerging technologies. Focussing…

NXS Interview with Geert Lovink: Defining the Synthetic Self

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, December 4, 2017

Unpacking Geert Lovink’s Library, or: Defining the Synthetic Self (for NXS #2, Amsterdam, November 2017) Buy this cool paper publication here: http://nxsworld.bigcartel.com/product/nxs-issue-2-synthetic-selves In order to investigate this issue’s theme of…

Some Thoughts on “The Medium is the Mirror” by Sebastian Koseda

In ENTREPRECARIAT, by Silvio Lorusso, November 15, 2017

Jonas Berthod asked me on Twitter if I have any thoughts on the article “The Medium is the Mirror: Automation in Visual Communication” by Sebastian Koseda, recently published by Creative Review.…

Polandball is of Reddit: How r/polandball Transcends Memes through Carefully Curated Geopolitical Satire

In INC Longform, by Leonieke Van Dipten, November 15, 2017

On June 23rd 2016, a majority of the citizens of the United Kingdom shocked the global political stage by voting to leave the European Union. Apart from the obvious serious…

I Hate This Celebratory Genre of “Be on the Constant Verge of Death under Late Capitalism” by Priya Prabhakar

In ENTREPRECARIAT, by Silvio Lorusso, November 10, 2017

This tweet by Priya Prabhakar is part of the special issue of the Pervasive Labour Union zine on the Entreprecariat. Read it here and download it for free as PDF…

Linkedin Society on Modes of Criticism 3

In ENTREPRECARIAT, by Silvio Lorusso, November 6, 2017

Modes of Criticism 3, a beautiful publication edited by Francisco Laranjo on design and criticism, is out. This issue, dedicated to the relationships between design and democracy and published by…

Programmers Wannabe by eeefff

In ENTREPRECARIAT, by Silvio Lorusso, October 30, 2017

This contribution by eeefff is part of the special issue of the Pervasive Labour Union zine on the Entreprecariat. Read it here and download it for free as PDF or…

A Tale of 3 Coffees by Phil N/A

In ENTREPRECARIAT, by Silvio Lorusso, October 17, 2017

This text by Phil N/A is part of the special issue of the Pervasive Labour Union zine on the Entreprecariat. Read it here and download it for free as PDF…

EC Bulletin #4 by Evening Class

In ENTREPRECARIAT, by Silvio Lorusso, October 16, 2017

This text by Evening Class is an extended version of the contribution to the special issue of the Pervasive Labour Union zine on the Entreprecariat. Read it here and download…

Link list on bitcoin & blockchain, demonitization and other MoneyLab issues

In MoneyLab, by Geert Lovink, October 11, 2017

Link list, collected by Geert Lovink and many others of the MoneyLab networks, for the MoneyLab email list, February-October 2017: Blockcerts: Using blokchain for identity management is (mostly) ridiculous https://blog.xot.nl/2017/09/06/blockcerts-using-blokchain-for-identity-management-is-mostly-ridiculous/…

Doomsday: The Internet of Things goes Supernova

In Algorithmic Anxiety , by Patricia, October 9, 2017

  The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction _ William Blake by Patricia de Vries On Exitism While you’ve been busy salting away a handful of…

Luxury & Paranoia, Access & Exclusion On Capital and Public Space

In INC Longform, by Leonieke Van Dipten, October 6, 2017

We get into an Uber car, and the driver passes by the Kremlin walls, guided by GPS. At the end of the ride, the bill turns out to be three…

Dear Hive Mind, I’m not Your WikiHow – On Prosumerism, Accumulation of Prestige and Social Media Outsourcing

In ENTREPRECARIAT, by Silvio Lorusso, October 6, 2017

For knowledge workers, the concept of 'prosumerism' aptly depicts their struggle to turn cultural consumption into cultural production, two activities that look substantially the same, despites the fact that the…

The Mutant Cute: Meitu, the Selfie, and the Rewriting of Global Identities

In Fear and Loathing of the Online Self, by Inte Gloerich, October 5, 2017

Author: Patrick Lichty In technologically-enabled society, the selfie has become the intersection between digital narcissism and fungible identity. Famous images of throngs with their backs to famous paintings and presidential…

Debate online – Tribute to Julian B. Coco

In The Art of Criticism, by Leonieke Van Dipten, 25/09/2017

Tim and Katrein Breukers are artists in residence in Hotel Maria Kapel in the little Dutch town Hoorn. For a period of three months they have been researching  the work…