INC Winter Drinks and launch Date: 19 January 2010 Location: Hogeschool van Amsterdam, Interactive Media, Expositieruimte (4th floor), Rhijnspoorplein 1, Amsterdam. Time: Launch starts at 16:00. Registration: rsvp (at) networkcultures (dot) org At the INC winter drinks the Institute of Network Cultures will launch two online projects: the audio archive of Geert Lovink 1987-1995 (including […]
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The Mobile City Conference: Architecture, Politics, Paranoia and Art
Report by Roman Tol On February 28th 2008, the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi) organized The Mobile City conference, in collaboration with the research programs ‘Mew Media, Public Sphere and Urban Culture’ (University of Groningen) and ‘Playful Identities’ (Erasmus University Rotterdam). The conference concerned the interplay of physical and digital spaces, and the influence of locative […]
Short Stories from the Post-Cognitive Era – Prolegomena of a Perceptual System: Eating Soap
The pervasive blend of floral chemicals is saturating every facet of my experiential existence. I contemplate the multitude of contents I’ve casually watched and it becomes manifest that these sensory experiences have grown into an integral part of my digital fruition. In retrospect, I realise how these videos, absorbed with casual indifference, exert a profound […]
Afterword of Semiotics of the End: New Beginnings
This is the afterword for Network Notion #1: Semiotics of the End by Alessandro Sbordoni. ‘In a way, we must start at the end.’ Deleuze and Guattari[1] This statement from Deleuze and Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus brings us to a strange conclusion. If we are to start at the end, which way should […]
On Indisciplinary Technical Practice or How to Do Research on AI Without Doing Research on AI
Reflections on the Second Iteration of the Moments of Reading Workshop Invited by Daniel Leix Palumbo, fellow PhD researcher in this messy field we call AI, and Dr. Matt Coler, the second iteration of the Moments of Reading workshop took place on October 24, 2023 (thanks a lot to both and all the students who […]
Reckless Endeavours, Ethics, and Memes — Reflections on the Fraught Side of Raving
At its core, raving has existed in opposition to normativity, and so has electronic music. If newcomers enticed by hard trance remixes of 2000’s Top 40 hits embrace this opposition, it is often done in ways removed from history. As Loren Granic AKA Goddollars, co-founder and resident of A Club Called Rhonda in Los Angeles, stated: […]
Unsettling the Cloud: On Data Centers and Counter-Narratives
As I gaze out of my window, I am met with a totem. This totem is gray and windowless, nestled in between offices and academic buildings. Behind it is a park, and the longer I stare, the deeper it becomes embedded in the natural landscape, after a bit I forget it’s there. But in the […]
Our Terms, Our Conditions – Report of the 2023 IMPAKT Festival
During IMPAKT festival 2023 lawyer Jan Fermon and artist Jonas Staal presented their collective action lawsuit Collectivize Facebook. The lawsuit aims to force legal recognition of Facebook as a public domain, owned and controlled by its users. During their panel talk they were asked the following question; »Do your Facebook posts providing updates on the […]
Bending the Maze: On the Architectures of Digital Enclosures
A famous inscription above the temple of Apollo in Delphi reads: “Know thyself, you, that walks down this hallway.” It implies responsibility and the weight of agency. And that’s the thing: I always felt responsible for my actions, opinions and tastes. It is what I was always taught, probably because it encouraged a more ethical […]
Book Launch of the English translation of Clearly Kabouter by Coen Tasman
The Gnomes March On “Break out the nose flutes. All Power to the Nature Spirits of the True Revolution.” ― Hakim Bey, author, TAZ Autonomedia is proud to announce the launch of Clearly Kabouter: Chronicle of a Radical Dutch Movement, 1969–1974 ― our English-language edition of Coen Tasman’s magisterial historical study, Louter Kabouter: Kroniek van […]
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