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 players, hidden clues… a blurry boundary between fiction and reality. Conservatives and progressives like to accuse each other of deficient skills when it comes to […]
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What Is the ‘Great Reset’ Really About? A Public Debate in Posters
‘Will the post-corona universe be just another future or something new “to come”?’ – Slavoj Žižek Corona is a reset. A chance to learn. An opportunity to grow. After all: never let a good crisis go to waste. True enough, there’s plenty of injustice in the world to justify a thorough reset. But the question […]
The Hustler Mirage: Selling Toxic Productivity under the Guise of Coaching
“30 years. 18-hour days. Not 8-hour days, 10-hour days, 12-hour days, 18-hour days. If anybody thinks you can be successful without paying that price, you’re wrong.” – Grant Cardone If you have an account on any of the most prominent social media platforms, you are already somewhat familiar with ‘hustlers’. Sure, you might have seen […]
Cottagecore as a Budding Anti-Capitalist Movement
Among many online subcultures and communities, there is an online space which rejects Internet-era aesthetics in exchange for the soft glow and calm reminiscent of romantic paintings. Rustic picnics, flowing garments, embroidery tutorials and tours of cosy homes await on the cottagecore tag on TikTok, the uber-popular social media app that lets users edit, share, […]
TOD #38: Satellite Lifelines: Media, Art, Migration and the Crisis of Hospitality in Divided Cities
Theory on Demand #38 Satellite Lifelines: Media, Art, Migration and the Crisis of Hospitality in Divided Cities Isabel Löfgren Isabel Löfgren takes us to the Stockholm high-rise suburbs to show us how art projects and transnational media intermingle with the multicultural urban reality. In this book, she discusses the architecture of her project Satellitstaden, where […]
Selfies Under Quarantine: Students Report Back to Rome (Final Episode)
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 with Danielle, Shaina, Briana, Jackie, Marta, Gabriella, Sydney, Elena, Sophia and Natalia As this is the ending week of our semester, we go for lighter readings: Human Contact is Now a Luxury Good I just […]
Selfies Under Quarantine: Students Report Back to Rome (Episode 3)
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 Making of Emotional Capitalism and excerpts from Melissa Broder’s So Sad Today Day 44 since the lockdown started in Italy. My Facebook wall is populated […]
MoneyLab #7: Outside of Finance
MoneyLab #7: Outside of Finance On feminist economics, social payments, corporate crime and the “blokechain” Since 2013, MoneyLab has explored questions around the design of money, the democratization of finance, and the new shifts in fintech. On 14 and 15 November, the 7th edition of MoneyLab was held in Amsterdam. At MoneyLab #7: Outside of […]
Algorithmic Hate: Brenton Tarrant and the Dark Social Web by Luke Munn
“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 central Christchurch and began shooting indiscriminately, leading to the deaths of 50 people. Already there has been speculation about what drove such an attack. For […]
Call for Contributions: The Critical Makers Reader
THE CRITICAL MAKERS READER: COLLABORATIVE LEARNING WITH TECHNOLOGY Published by the Institute of Network Cultures Edited by Loes Bogers and Letizia Chiappini THE CRITICAL MAKERS READER Makerspaces and fablabs are popping up in community centers, schools, universities and libraries, offering access to industry-standard production methods. In parallel to this interest in digital fabrication and maker […]
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