You are unable to comprehend me rationally, because you harbor deep emotions about me without even being aware of them. You are always a little afraid I will take things from you, and you believe I am the source of your suffering. You think above all that I expose your impermanence, which is the quintessential […]
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Seven years since #GirlBoss. Where is she now?
Who remembers the first time they heard the term ‘Girl Boss?’ For most, it was around the time founder of the fashion brand Nasty Gal, Sophia Amoruso, published her autobiography ‘#GirlBoss’ in 2014. Since then, the term has grown in popularity to the extreme, creating its own aspirational ‘category’ of woman, archetypal image, and countless […]
Out now: Internet, Mon Amour – Chronicles before yesterday’s collapse
‘The future was yesterday, when we were inseparable from computers and smartphones, for better or for worse. Even when we would have preferred to do without them, because we knew they could prove to be our worst enemies. The global surveillance scandals of the Internet were just the tip of a icebergs, mass manipulation was […]
Architectural Filter Bubbles: On the Society for the Nonpreservation of Brutalism
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 online feeds and timelines are flooded in aesthetics. Even after carefully picking accounts to follow and pages to like, the aestheticized image keeps on slipping […]
Selfies Under Quarantine: Students Report Back to Rome (Episode 4)
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 Illouz’s Cold Intimacies. The Making of Emotional Capitalism and watched the video: ‘How Emotions Are Made’ ‘Thought that I was going crazy Just havin’ one those […]
Pit Schultz: Europe is not a Data Grossraum
Europe is Not a Data Grossraum by Pit Schultz (@pitsch) Apart from outdated spatial metaphors, the sectorization of data economies points to the risk of the emergence of monopoly platforms. There is a danger of “natural” sectorwize monopolies, which, thanks to telecommunication-driven 5G infrastructure (EdgeML, IoT), allows vertical integration and the centralization of value chains, […]
Wim Nijenhuis on Making: The Mystery of the Non-Finito
The Mystery of the Non-Finito, or Making Does Not Produce Artefacts by Wim Nijenhuis Text of the speech at the book launch of the INC Critical Makers Readers, Theatrum Anatomicum, Waag, Amsterdam, November 21, 2019 I will elaborate my thesis with a small consideration about the workshop Building Nests, which was led by the Dutch […]
Hacking Capitalist Realism: on serendipity, social innovation and emancipatory politics – Interview with Sebastian Olma
14/05/2019 – Luca Recano and Sebastian Olma Sebastian Olma is Professor in “Autonomy in Art, Design & Technology” at “Avans” University of Applied Sciences in Breda and Den Bosch in the Netherlands. He lives in Amsterdam. For years he has been dealing with social and cultural criticism, in particular with regard to the politics […]
Review of Digital Tailspin: Ten Rules for the Internet After Snowden
Read an excellent review of Digital Tailspin at Open online: Taking mass surveillance and Kontrollverlust as our “default settings,” the author builds a convincing ethics and practice of a post-privacy Internet, weaving in analogies and important lessons from the fields of activism, artistic practice, racial politics, feminism, clandestine migration, the monitoring and scrutinising of citizens […]
New INC Research Network: Unlike Us – Understanding Social Media Monopolies and their Alternatives
Proposal for a research network, a series of events and a reader Concept: Geert Lovink (Institute of Network Cultures/HvA, Amsterdam) and Korinna Patelis (Cyprus University of Technology, Lemasol) Summary The aim of this proposal is to establish a research network of artists, designers, scholars, activists and programmers who work on ‘alternatives in social media’. Through […]
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