Theory on Demand
From Opinions to Images: Essays Towards a Sociology of Affects
by Ulus S. Baker | Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2020 |Publications
INC publication series include essay collections, commissioned writings on the intersection of research, art, and activism, and theoretical works with an international scope. Experiments are done with multiple formats such as print, ePub, PDF, etc. keeping quality standards in content and design high at all times. The INC produces and distributes books in-house, which allows publishing of state-of-the-art research in a fast yet personal way. Most publications are open access and available for free for everyone interested. Order INC publications
Theory on Demand presents an ‘archive of content production’ available in print-on-demand. The series includes reprints of theoretical new media work, for example dissertations or books that have gone out of stock, but also new work that’s unfit for traditional publishers.
Studies in Network Cultures is a series produced in collaboration with nai010 publishers. The books investigate concepts and practices specific to the shifting environment of network cultures.
INC Longforms
by Maisa Imamović | Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2020 | Download PDF
Miscellanea
by Ania Molenda and Inte Gloerich | Rotterdam and Amsterdam: Amateur Cities and the Institute of Network Cultures, 2020 | Download PDF
INC Longforms
Pulling the Virtual Wool over Your Eyes: An Essay on Virtual Fashion and Control
by Tom Robertson | Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2020 | Download PDF
INC Longforms
The City Yet to Come: Transindividuation and Becoming in Future Queer Space
by Annie Howard | Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2020 | Download PDF
INC Reader
Let’s Get Physical: A Sample of INC Longforms, 2015-2020
edited by Miriam Rasch | Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2020 | Download PDF
INC Longforms
On the Basis of Face: Biometric Art as Critical Practice, Its History and Politics
by Devon Schiller | Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2020 | Download PDF
INC Longforms
A Different Kind of Grief: Learning to Love Our Networks in a Time of Disconnection
by Shane Finan | Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2020 | Download PDF
INC Reader
Video Vortex Reader #3: Inside the YouTube Decade
edited by Geert Lovink and Andreas Treske | Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2020 | Download PDF
Miscellanea, MoneyLab
Radical Care: Embracing Feminist Finance
Rotterdam and Amsterdam: Amateur Cities and the Institute of Network Cultures, 2020 | Download PDF
Making Public
Here and Now? Explorations in Urgent Publishing
edited by Silvio Lorusso, Pia Pol, and Miriam Rasch | Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2020 | Download PDF
Theory on Demand
Algorithmic Anxiety in Contemporary Art: A Kierkegaardian Inquiry into the Imaginary of Possibility
by Patricia de Vries | Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2020 | Download PDF
Theory on Demand
Listening into Others: An Ethnographic Exploration in Govindpuri
by Tripta Chandola | Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2020 | Download PDF
Miscellanea
The Web. Coronavirus e web 2.0 : domande e risposte della filosofia
by Lorenza Saettone | Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2020 | Download PDF
Geert Lovink's Books
van BILWET | Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Raket en Lont, 1985 | Download PDF
Theory on Demand
The Arab Archive: Mediated Memories and Digital Flows
edited by Donatella Della Ratta, Kay Dickinson, and Sune Haugbolle | Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2020 | Download PDF
Miscellanea
README.first: Essays on film and technology / Essays over film en technologie
edited by Miriam Rasch and Jurian Strik | Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures and Plokta, 2020 | Download PDF
INC Longforms
The Cloud Sailor Diary: Shanghai Life in the Time of Coronavirus
by Tsukino T. Usagi | Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2020 |
Theory on Demand
TOD#34 The Age of Total Images: Disappearance of a Subjective Viewpoint in Post-digital Photography
By Ana Peraica | Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, 2019 |
INC Longforms
By MAISA IMAMOVIĆ | What Club-Wise most importantly comments on/narrates is the contemporary + collective boredom found in the clubbing spaces, where enormous amount of distracting effects are designed for the clubgoer to never get bored. The focal doubt doubts that the effectiveness of these effects are declining, and the rich history of resistance is visibly fading out. |
Miscellanea
The Eternal Network: The Ends and Becomings of Network Culture
Kristoffer Gansing & Inga Luchs (eds) | Accompanying transmediale 2020 End to End’s exhibition ‘The Eternal Network’, this collection gathers contributions from artists, activists, and theorists who engage with the question of the network anew. In referencing Filliou’s eternal notion, the exhibition and publication project closes the loop between pre- and post-internet imaginaries, opening up possible futures with and beyond networks. This calls many of the collection’s authors to turn to instances of independent and critical net cultures as historical points of inspiration for rethinking, reforming, or refuting networks in the present. |
Deep Pockets
Scenes of Independence: Cultural Ruptures in Zagreb (1991-2019)
by Sepp Eckenhaussen | Amsterdam: Institute of Network Culture, 2020 |
Conference Report
MoneyLab #7: Outside of Finance. On feminist economics, social payments, corporate crime and the “blokechain”. |
Miscellanea
It Happened on Tinder: Reflections and Studies on Internet-Infused Dating
Edited by: Amir Hetsroni and Meriç Tuncez | This volume brings together articles from different parts of the globe that describe, question, test and criticize innovations and recent developments in online dating. Using quantitative as well as qualitative techniques the studies included in the book examine the impact of gender, personality traits, app interface and design, and culture on success and failure in online courtship. Among the issues dealt here are ghosting, sex emoticons, body presentation in the virtual universe, dime dating, religious courtship and more. |
Theory on Demand
TOD#32: Networked Content Analysis: The Case of Climate change
By Sabine Niederer | Foreword by Klaus Krippendorff | Climate change is one of the key societal challenges of our times, and its debate takes place across scientific disciplines and into the public realm, traversing platforms, sources, and fields of study. This book introduces Networked Content Analysis as a digital research approach, which offers ways forward for students and researchers who want to work with digital methods and tools to study online content. Besides providing a thorough theoretical framework, the book demonstrates new tools and methods for research through case studies that study the climate change debate with search engines, Twitter, and the encyclopedia project of Wikipedia. |
INC Reader
Loes Bogers, Letizia Chiappini (eds), The Critical Makers Reader: (Un)learning Technology, Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2018. ISBN: 978-94-92302-19-9. |
Geert Lovink's Books
El Abismo de las Redes Sociales: Culturas Críticas de Internet y la Fuerza de la Negación
¿Quién hace la crítica de las redes? ¿Quién habla de las infraestructuras de la redes? Se pregunta Geert Lovink, uno de los teóricos del internet contemporáneos más puntuales. |
Theory on Demand
Media Do Not Exist: Performativity and Mediating Conjunctures by Jean-Marc Larrue and Marcello Vitali-Rosati offers a radically new approach to the phenomenon of mediation, proposing a new understanding that challenges the very notion of medium. It begins with a historical overview of recent developments in Western thought on mediation, especially since the mid 80s and the emergence of the disciplines of media archaeology and intermediality. While these developments are inseparable from the advent of digital technology, they have a long history. The authors trace the roots of this thought back to the dawn of philosophy. Authors: Jean-Marc Larrue, Marcello Vitali-Rosati |
INC Longforms
Harness the Power of a Fluid Identity with 3 Simple Strategies
By Marloes de Valk | 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 doing it to everyone, in every street, in over 30 countries. Perhaps you can also excuse me while I give access to data you and your friends shared with me and each other, to individuals and companies I have no relation to or control over at all, and while leaking your data, again it’s nothing personal, |
Geert Lovink's Books
Sad by Design by Geert Lovink. Sadness is now a design problem. The highs and lows of melancholy are coded into social media platforms. After all the clicking, browsing, swiping and liking, all we are left with is the flat and empty aftermath of time lost to the app. Sad by Design offers a critical analysis of the growing social media controversies such as fake news, toxic viral memes and online addiction. The failed search for a grand design has resulted in depoliticised internet studies unable to generate either radical critique or a search for alternatives. [...] |
Miscellanea
Edited by Sophie Bloemen and Thomas de Groot Our Commons: Political Ideas for a New Europe is a collection of essays, case studies and interviews that showcase the wealth of transformative ideas that the commons have to offer. Featuring reflections on the enclosure of knowledge and the monopolisation of the digital sphere, stories about renewable energy cooperatives and community foodwaste initiatives and urgent pleas to see the city as a commons and to treat health as a common good, this book is a political call to arms for all Europeans to embrace the commons and build a new Europe. Our Commons features contributions by David Bollier, Sheila R. Foster, Benjamin Coriat, Silke Helfrich, George Monbiot, Kate Raworth, Trebor Scholz and many others. |
Miscellanea
Made in China, Designed in California, Criticised in Europe. Written by Mieke Gerritzen & Geert Lovink. When everything is destined to be designed, design disappears into the everyday. We simply don’t see it anymore because it’s everywhere. This is the vanishing act of design. At this moment design registers its redundancy: our products, environments and services have been comprehensively improved. Everything has been designed to perfection and is under a permanent upgrade regime. Within such a paradigm, design is enmeshed with the capitalist logic of reproduction. But this does not come without conflicts, struggles and tensions. [...] |
INC Longforms
The Controversial Archive: Negotiating Horror Images in Syria
'The Controversial Archive: Negotiating Horror Images in Syria' by Enrico De Angelis is part of the upcoming INC ToD book titled 'The ArabArchive: Mediated Memories and Digital Flows" edited by Donatella Della Ratta, Kay Dickinson, and Sune Haugbolle. Since the beginning of the 2011 uprising, Syrian photographers and media activists have produced thousands of photos documenting protests, repression, and war. These pictures circulate mainly on social media, shaping an archive that exposes violence in an unprecedented way. How to deal with these images is at the center of a painful negotiation among Syrian activists and image-makers. |
Miscellanea
Flying Money 2018: Investigating Illicit Financial Flows in the City
Money flows pass through the city, and we often do not know anymore whose money this is, where it comes from or where it goes. At the same time, the development of cryptocurrencies and parallel money cultures all contribute to the opaqueness of the future of the financial world. To better understand the current dynamics that will affect our financial future, the City of Amsterdam and the Institute of Network Cultures collaborated to organize the Flying Money conference and publish this book. Inte Gloerich, Judith Hart, Geert Lovink, Caroline Nevejan, Ilse Verkerk (eds) Flying Money 2018: Investigating Illicit Financial Flows in the City, Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2019. ISBN: 978-94-92302-30-4. |
Theory on Demand
Een brede collectie teksten over eigentijds fascisme, geschreven door het Nederlandse theoriecollectief Bilwet in de periode 1983-1994. De Bilwet fascismemap geeft inzicht in deze vragen en daarmee een inkijk in de geschiedenis van wat ook wel de niet-fascistische, feministische mannenbeweging genoemd kan worden. |
INC Longforms
On the Barricades of the Incalculable: Against Algorithm Addiction
By Stefano Diana. Frontiers are usually zones of trafficking, and the moving boundaries of knowledge are no exception. There you may encounter the weird and adorable creatures known as paradoxes. One of my favorites is the sorites paradox, or ‘paradox of the heap’. [...] |
Miscellanea
State Machines: Reflections and Actions at the Edge of Digital Citizenship, Finance, and Art
This publication investigates the new relationships between states, citizens and the stateless made possible by emerging technologies. Yiannis Colakides, Marc Garrett, Inte Gloerich (eds) State Machines: Reflections and Actions at the Edge of Digital Citizenship, Finance, and Art, Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2019. ISBN: 978-94-92302-33-5. |
INC Longforms
Author: Liat Berdugo 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 on and off, making their presence known through light. And where they were once uniformly black and dark gray, devices are now white, shiny, and reflective: they add light not just by emitting it, but by reflecting it. [...] |
Theory on Demand, Theory on Demand
Author: Annalisa Pelizza How to conceptualize online sociability in the 21st century? To answer this question, Communities at a Crossroads looks back at the mid-2000s. With the burst of the creative-entrepreneur alliance, the territorialisation of the internet and the commercialization of interpersonal ties, that period constituted a turning point for digital communitarian cultures. Many of the techno-libertarian culture’s utopias underpinning the ideas for online sociability faced systematic counter evidence. This change in paradigm has still consequences today. Avoiding both empty invocations of community and swift conclusions of doom, Annalisa Pelizza investigates the theories of actions that have underpinned the development of techno-social digital assemblages after the ‘golden age’ of online communities. |
Theory on Demand
Moving away from the strong body of critique of pervasive ‘bad data’ practices by both governments and private actors in the globalized digital economy, this book aims to paint an alternative, more optimistic but still pragmatic picture of the datafied future. The authors examine and propose ‘good data’ practices, values and principles from an interdisciplinary, international perspective. From ideas of data sovereignty and justice, to manifestos for change and calls for activism, this collection opens a multifaceted conversation on the kinds of futures we want to see, and presents concrete steps on how we can start realizing good data in practice. Editors: Angela Daly, S. Kate Devitt and Monique Mann |
INC Longforms
Author: MAISA IMAMOVIĆ We are all bored. We are bored on the endless steppes of social media, bored while waiting in front of the open bridge, bored by the daily routines of our work. Will we ever get bored of boredom so much that we give in? Will we allow ourselves to live in new bodies, to do what we really want, to distinguish between to-do and not-to-do? |
INC Longforms
Brave New Screens: Soma, FOMO, and Friendly Fascism after 1984
Author: Roberto Simanowski. 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 security cameras. [...] |
Miscellanea
Silicon Plateau is an art project and publishing series that explores the intersection of technology, culture and society in the Indian city of Bangalore. [...] |
INC Longforms
Execute Order 66: How Star Wars Memes Became Indebted to Fascist Dictatorship
Author: Pim van den Berg. Internet memes are rewarded with popularity for their repetition of recognizable ideas. Likewise, meme communities tend to adopt a politics that is conservative - especially when the source material readily lends itself to that very politics. [...] |
Miscellanea
Wat betekent de muur vandaag? De moderne stad verheerlijkt het contact. In Berlijn staat een muur die dit ontkent [...] |
INC Longforms
Res Publica ex Machina: On Neocybernetic Governance and the End of Politics
Authors: Felix Maschewski and Anna-Verena Nosthoff. 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 by the Danish queen. [...] |
INC Longforms
Author: Tim Brouwer. In On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects (1958), French philosopher Gilbert Simondon noticed that humans were losing their reciprocal connection with technology. [...] |
Miscellanea
By Magdalena Taube [in German].Today, public interest in journalism seems greater than ever. Buzzwords such as ‘fake news’ or ‘click bait’ indicate that we are dealing with a polarising political issue [...] |
INC Longforms
‘That Others May Die’: Autonomous Military Technology and the Changing Ethos on the Battlefield
Author: Gustavo Velho Diogo. 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. [...] |
Geert Lovink's Books
By: Geert Lovink and Ned Rossiter Organized networks are an alternative to the social media logic of weak links and their secretive economy of data mining. They put an end to freestyle friends, seeking forms of empowerment beyond the brief moment of joyful networking. This speculative manual calls for nothing less than social technologies based [...] |
Theory on Demand
Author: Trine Bjørkmann Berry. Videoblogging Before YouTube offers a cultural history of online video, focusing on the critical moment when the internet moved from being a mostly textual medium to a truly multimedia one. |
Deep Pockets
Deep Pockets #2: Shadowbook: Writing Through the Digital 2014-2018
Author: Miriam Rasch. What happens to our everyday language in the digital sphere? How does ‘the post-digital condition’ change the world in which we think about ourselves and talk to one another? |
INC Longforms
Author: Bennet Etsiwah. 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 a fully automated social media project called #turingforthemasses. [...] |
Theory on Demand
TOD #26: On Editorialization: Structuring Space and Authority in the Digital Age
Author: Marcello Vitali-Rosati. Digital space is well-structured and material and has specific forms of authority. Editorialization is one key process that organizes this space and thus brings into being digital authority. |
INC Longforms
Author: Davide Banis. 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. [...] |
INC Reader
Inte Gloerich, Geert Lovink, Patricia de Vries (eds), MoneyLab Reader 2: Overcoming the Hype, Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2018. ISBN: 978-94-92302-19-9. |
INC Longforms
Author: Sal Hagen. 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 political consequences, an event of the magnitude of Brexit was also sure to generate a swarm of playful satire on the internet. [...] |
INC Longforms
Luxury & Paranoia, Access & Exclusion: On Capital and Public Space
Authors: Anastasia Kubrak and Sander Manse. 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 times as expensive than usual. What is the matter? [...] |
Theory on Demand
Author: Alex Foti. From the fast-food industry to the sharing economy, precarious work has become the norm in contemporary capitalism, like the anti-globalization movement predicted it would. |
Zero Infinite Podcast
Following the conference Fear and Loathing of the Online Self and the publication of Culture of the Selfie: Self-Representation in Contemporary Visual Culture in May 2017, this episode of INC’s Zero Infinite podcast zooms in on the online self and selfies, with Ana Peraica, Wendy Chun and Rebecca Stein. In the studio, Inte Gloerich, Leonieke [...] |
Miscellanea
The Riddle of the Real City or the Dark Knowledge of Urbanism
Author: Wim Nijenhuis. Translated from the Dutch by Laura Vroomen & Nina Woodson. Design & development: OSP (Gijs de Heij, Ludi Loiseau & Sarah Magnan). Publisher: Uitgeverij Duizend & Een / 1001 Publishers and Institute of Network Cultures. Amsterdam 2017. ISBN: 9789071346460 (print) / 9789071346477 (epub). |
INC Longforms
Author: Miriam Rasch. 'The Post-digital Condition' is the opening essay from the essay collection by INC's Miriam Rasch, Swimming in the Ocean: Texts from a Post-digital World, to be published in Dutch by De Bezige Bij in June 2017. [...] |
INC Longforms
Ditigal Desolation: Amateurs, Aesthetics, and the Ageing of Web’s Architecture
Author: Tatjana Seitz. Clicking on web 1.0 home pages is like flicking through a 90’s magazine or show: it’s hard to ignore the colorful backgrounds, blinking bars and glittery gifs matching any mood or desire. [...] |
INC Longforms
Author: Ruben van de Ven. ‘Weeks ago I saw an older woman crying outside my office building as I was walking in. She was alone, and I worried she needed help. I was afraid to ask, but I set my fears aside and walked up to her. [...]' |
INC Longforms
On Socialist Cybernetics, Accelarationist Dreams, and Tiqqun’s Nightmares
Author: Paul Buckermann. Nikita Khrushchev was skeptical whether computers can help boost history towards communism. Nevertheless, he was willing to give it a try and ordered a super-computer for economical support of soviet socialism. [...] |
INC Longforms
Author: Josip Batinic. In early 2015, the London-based studio Eden Films released the first issue of their interactive motion comic titled Redemption: The Challenge. [...] |
INC Longforms
Google Earth, Surveillance, and the Power of Digital Cartography
Author: Gustavo Velho Diogo. Pokémon Go, Facebook check-ins, Google Maps, public transport apps and especially smartphone apps are increasingly becoming traceable and locatable. [...] |
INC Longforms
Author: Agnieszka Zimolag. As I walk towards my home at night a wet surface of the pavement glitters in all shades of black, reminding me that I am surfing. [...] |
INC Longforms
Author: Robin Lynch. In the game of online visibility; cuddly animals, selfies, houseplants, bro-culture, health mantras, and Fiji water bottles are now strangely powerful tools. It is no coincidence that these images and sub-cultures are also commonly utilized in the rapidly growing category called ‘post-internet art’. [...] |
INC Longforms
Authors: Inte Gloerich, Rose Rowson, Rebecca Cachia, Susan Clandillon, and Cristel Kolopaking. Instagram has become an unsuspecting pulpit – seemingly caught off guard – for those determined to spread a militant message of Islamic State terror. [...] |
INC Longforms
Corporate Social Networking Platforms as Cognitive Factories
Author: Lidia Pereira. The day comes to an end. Tired of abiding to the rules of productivity you sit back, relax and prepare yourself for some hours of dolce fare niente on your social network of choice – you log into Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and are now ready to catch up with your friends, acquaintances, family et al. [...] |
INC Longforms
Author: Jeroen van Honk. According to the essayist and memoirist Rebecca Solnit, to be lost is 'to be fully present, and to be fully present is to be capable of being in uncertainty and mystery.' [...] |
INC Longforms
Author: Nikos Voyiatzis. 'The best place to hide a dead body is page 2 of Google search results.' For some time now the image above has been circulating online. [...] |
INC Longforms
Author: Lasse van den Bosch Christensen. When Google sold 3D geo-modeling software Sketch-up, a dedicated community of Google Earth developers were left behind. Is this a case of digital labor and exploitation or just an agreement based on mutual consent that ended, like relationships so often do? [...] |
INC Longforms
Auteur: Nadine Roestenburg. Door programma's als Google Earth zijn we gewend geraakt aan het perspectief van de satelliet, de god’s eye view. Wat doet dit met de relatie die we hebben tot onze omgeving? [...] |
Theory on Demand
TOD #24: Culture of the Selfie: Self-Representation in Contemporary Visual Culture
Author: Ana Peraica. This book focuses on space in self-portraits, shared between the person self-portraying and the viewer. What is the missing information of the transparent relationship to the self and what kind of world appears behind each selfie? [...] |
Zero Infinite Podcast
Listen to the third episode of the podcast of the Institute of Network Cultures, in which Miriam Rasch and Geert Lovink discuss the politics of the database with Kenneth Werbin and Nikos Voyiatzis, zooming in on the power of listing technologies and the need to crack open the list. Want to know more? Check out [...] |
Theory on Demand
Authors Autistici/Inventati, or simply A/I, was funded in 2001 with the goal of creating an autonomous server and providing free web services which respected users' privacy and anonymity. Having grown into a distributed network spread over several countries, [...] |
Conference Report
23 – 26 February 2017, Kochi, India. Download the conference report here. Video technology has radically altered the ways in which we produce, consume and circulate images, influencing the aesthetics and possibilities of moving image cultures, as well as yielding a rich body of scholarship across various disciplines. Given its ease of access and use, [...] |
Zero Infinite Podcast
About the podcast: Although digital technologies promised a renaissance in the publishing industries, publishers still struggle with digital innovations and try to hold on to traditional workflows, production, form and business models. How can we open-up this top-down mode of communication? In this episode we discuss the future of (digital) publishing through interviews with Janneke Adema, Michael Dieter, Morehshin Allahyari and Daniel Rourke. [...] |
Miscellanea
Filorete Flock: A New Form of Network in an Emergent Democracy
By Isabel De Maurrisens. This essay is based on research promoted by INDIRE, Italian National Institute for Documentation, Innovation and Educational Research in Education, and is developed under the research on ‘Professional networks, Educational models and School principal’s profile in Italy’. |
Theory on Demand
Author: Kenneth C. Werbin. Preface by: Geert Lovink. Edited By: Miriam Rasch. EPUB development: Leonieke van Dipten. Inspired by taxonomist Jack Goody’s theorizing of ‘ancient lists’ as ‘intellectual technologies’, this book analyzes listing practices in modern and contemporary formations of power, and how they operate in the installation and securing of the milieus of circulation that characterize Michel Foucault’s conception of governmentality. Propelling the list’s role [...] |
Zero Infinite Podcast
About the podcast: What does it mean to be precarious, and who self-identifies as part of the precariat? Is it a political position? And if so, how can precariats start to organize themselves? In this first episode of the Zero Infinite podcast we discuss precarity, anti-austerity and work through interviews with Alex Foti, Baruch Gottlieb [...] |
Conference Report
MoneyLab #3 Failing Better. A two day symposium of talks, workshops, performances and parties that conquer the assumption that anything is too big to fail. 1-2 December 2016, Amsterdam. The aim of MoneyLab is to research, map and probe (alternative) strategies of redistribution and intervention in digital economy. It starts with the conviction that after [...] |
Theory on Demand
About the book: From Mah-Jong, to the introduction of Prussian war-games, through to the emergence of location-based play: maps and play share a long and diverse history. This monograph shows how mapping and playing unfold in the digital age, when the relations between these apparently separate tropes are increasingly woven together. Fluid networks of interaction [...] |
Miscellanea
The 3D Additivist Cookbook, devised and edited by Morehshin Allahyari and Daniel Rourke, is a compendium of imaginative, provocative works from over 100 world-leading artists, activists and theorists. The 3D Additivist Cookbook contains 3D .obj and .stl files, critical texts, templates, recipes, (im)practical designs and methodologies for living in this most contradictory of times. In [...] |
Deep Pockets
About the book: The relation of your handwriting and typing exposes the contention of efficiency in a world driven by the ever-increasing compression of all things. Fake wood is more natural than an honest answer: lying reaffirms the truth based on negation only to move into a grey area. You are not excited? The potential of [...] |
Theory on Demand
TOD #20: The New Aesthetic and Art: Constellations of the Postdigital
About the book: The New Aesthetic and Art: Constellations of the Postdigital is an interdisciplinary analysis focusing on new digital phenomena at the intersections of theory and contemporary art. Asserting the unique character of New Aesthetic objects, Contreras-Koterbay and Mirocha trace the origins of the New Aesthetic in visual arts, design, and software, find its [...] |
Network Notebooks
Network Notebook #11: The Ends of the Internet, Boris Beaude
Author: Boris Beaude. Translated by: Patrice Riemens. Copy editor: Matt Beros. Network Notebook editors: Geert Lovink and Miriam Rasch. Design: Loes Sikkes, Rotterdam. EPUB development: André Castro. Printer: Printvisie. Publisher: Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam 2016. ISBN: 9789492302052. |
Theory on Demand
TOD #19: Internet on the Outstation: The Digital Divide and Remote Aboriginal Communities
Authors: Ellie Rennie, Eleanor Hogan, Robin Gregory, Andrew Crouch, Alyson Wright and Julian Thomas. Internet on the Outstation provides a new take on the digital divide. Why do whole communities choose to go without the internet when the infrastructure for access is in place? Through an in-depth exploration of the digital practices occurring in Aboriginal households in remote central Australia, the authors address both the dynamics of internet adoption and the benefits that flow from its use. Published June 2016. |
Geert Lovink's Books
Social Media Abyss: Critical Internet Cultures and the Force of Negation
In this fifth volume of his ongoing investigations, Dutch media theorist and internet critic Geert Lovink plunges into the paradoxical condition of the new digital normal versus a lived state of emergency. There is a heightened, post-Snowden awareness; we know we are under surveillance but we click, share, rank and remix with a perverse indifference [...] |
Theory on Demand
The Navigating Theory on Demand project aims to find a new way of interacting with the publications and their content, by breaking away from the limitations of print and ebook. Try it out! |
Miscellanea
Utopia van de kunstkritiek is een uitgave van het Domein voor Kunstkritiek, Instituut voor Netwerkcultuur en PublishingLab, Hogeschool van Amsterdam, maart 2016. |
Theory on Demand
Editors: Ramon Lobato and James Meese. Copy-editing: Leonieke van Dipten. Editorial support: Miriam Rasch. Cover Design: Katja van Stiphout. DTP: Leonieke van Dipten. EPUB development: Leonieke van Dipten Infographics: Sandra Hanchard. Printer: Print on Demand. Publisher: Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, 2016. ISBN: 978-94-92302-03-8. |
Conference Report
MoneyLab #2 Economies of Dissent. A two day symposium of talks, workshops, performances and parties that conquer the assumption that anything is too big to fail. 3-4 December 2015, Amsterdam. An overview of the video registration of MoneyLab#2: Economies of Dissent is available here, and the photos can be found here. The blogposts about each session [...] |
Theory on Demand
About this publication: What is the correlation among the creative industries, creative industry policies, new media paradigms and capitalism as colonial relations of dominance? What is the role of these industries in the prioritization of the interests of capital at the expense of those of society and how can these paradigms be criticized in the [...] |
Network Notebooks
Author: Richard Barbrook with Andy Cameron. Network Notebook editors: Geert Lovink and Miriam Rasch. Design: Medamo, Rotterdam. EPUB development: André Castro. Printer: Printvisie. Publisher: Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam 2015. ISBN: 978-94-92302-02-1. |
Theory on Demand
TOD #16: Online Courtship – Interpersonal Interactions Across Borders
Editors: I. Alev Degim, James Johnson & Tao Fu. Copy-editing and design: Jess van Zyl. Printer: ‘Print on Demand’. Publisher: Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam 2015. ISBN: 978-90-822345-7-2. |
Theory on Demand
TOD #15: In the Facebook Aquarium: The Resistible Rise of Anarcho-Capitalism, Ippolita
Author: Ippolita. Design: Katja van Stiphout. Copy-editing: Matt Beros. Printer: ‘Print on Demand’. Publisher: Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam 2015. ISBN: 978-94-92302-00-7 |
INC Reader
Geert Lovink, Nathaniel Tkacz, and Patricia de Vries (eds), MoneyLab Reader: An Intervention in Digital Economy, Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2015. ISBN: 978-90-822345-5-8. |
Network Notebooks
Network Notebook #09: Digital Tailspin: Ten Rules for the Internet After Snowden, Michael Seemann
Michael Seemann, Digital Tailspin: Ten Rules for the Internet After Snowden. Network Notebooks 09, Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, 2015. ISBN 978-90-822345-8-9. |
Miscellanea
Digital Publishing Toolkit: the Blog Posts is a collection of all the blog posts of the Digital Publishing Toolkit blog. This EPUB consists of texts, images and links to video files. It includes reflections, reports and tools. The blog posts are arranged in reverse chronological order, with the exception of the earliest post, as we thought it would be most appropriate to begin the collection with the original first post |
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From Print to Ebooks: a Hybrid Publishing Toolkit for the Arts
This Toolkit is meant for everyone working in art and design publishing. No specific expertise of digital technology, or indeed traditional publishing technology, is required. The Toolkit provides hands-on practical advice and tools, focusing on working solutions for low-budget, small-edition publishing. |
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Boukje Cnossen and Sebastian Olma, The Volkskrant Building: Manufacturing Difference in Amsterdam's Creative City. ISBN 978-94-92171-00-9 (print), ISBN 978-94-92171-01-6 (epub). Publisher: Amsterdam Creative Industries Publishing. |
Network Notebooks
Network Notebook #08: The Allure of the Selfie: Instagram and the New Self Portrait, Brooke Wendt
Brooke Wendt, The Allure of the Selfie: Instagram and the New Self Portrait. Network Notebooks 08, Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, 2014. ISBN 978-90-822345-1-0. |
Network Notebooks
Network Notebook #07: Radical Tactics of the Offline Library, Henry Warwick
Henry Warwick, Radical Tactics of the Offline Library. Network Notebooks 07, Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, 2014. ISBN 978-90-818575-9-8. |
Miscellanea
Society of the Query Magazine offer 10 articles in Dutch on web search and search engines, adapted especially for educational purposes. | Download PDF
Miscellanea
In times of rapid growth of new media as an economic factor, the danger of creating a stagnating cultural ghetto is immediate. The aim of Tulipomania was not to express “Schadensfreude” towards all those who gambled – and lost, nor to mobilize resentment towards the steadily growing number of Internet millionaires. The conference was neither [...] | Download PDF
INC Reader
René König and Miriam Rasch (eds), Society of the Query Reader: Reflections on Web Search, Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2014. ISBN: 978-90-818575-8-1, paperback, 292 pages. |
Conference Report
MoneyLab: Coining Alternatives 2014 conference report
MoneyLab: Coining Alternatives videos and blog reports are now online! If you missed out on this year’s conference or would like to experience it again, be sure to check out the reports, photos and videos of the speakers on the MoneyLab page. MoneyLab: Coining Alternatives, an initiative of the Institute of Network Cultures, Hogeschool van [...] | Download PDF
Theory on Demand
TOD #14: Transcoding the Digital: How Metaphors Matter in New Media, Marianne van den Boomen
colophon Author: Marianne van den Boomen. Editorial support: Miriam Rasch. Design and DTP: Katja van Stiphout. Printer: ‘Print on Demand’. Publisher: Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam 2014. ISBN: 978-90-818575-7-4 |
Theory on Demand
TOD #13: The Dark Side of Google, Ippolita
Author: Ippolita. Editorial support: Miriam Rasch. Design: Katja van Stiphout. DTP: Margreet Riphagen & Katja van Stiphout. Printer: ‘Print on Demand’. Publisher: Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam 2013. ISBN: 978-90-818575-6-7 | Download PDF
Studies in Network Cultures
Anti-Media: Ephemera on Speculative Arts, Florian Cramer
Florian Cramer, Anti-Media, Ephemera on Speculative Arts, nai010 Publishers, Rotterdam, Willem de Kooning Academy and Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, 2013. ISBN 978-94-62080-31-7. | Buy the book
Conference Report
The Society of the Query #2 conference report offers an overview of the conference held November 7-8 2013 in Amsterdam. The file functions both as a summary and as archive of the project. It consists of the key results, the conference program, all conference blogposts and many other (research) blogposts concerning the topic of ‘online search [...] |
INC Reader
Unlike Us Reader: Social Media Monopolies and Their Alternatives
Geert Lovink and Miriam Rasch (eds), Unlike Us Reader: Social Media Monopolies and Their Alternatives, Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2013. ISBN: 978-90-818575-2-9, paperback, 384 pages. |
Network Notebooks
Network Notebook #06: The Inner Life of Video Spheres, Andreas Treske
Andreas Treske, The Inner Life of Video Spheres. Network Notebooks 06, Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, 2013. ISBN: 978-90-818575-3-6 | Download PDF
Miscellanea
Unlike Us App. Lespakket ontwikkeld door het lectoraat Netwerkcultuur, CREATE-IT applied research, Hogeschool van Amsterdam |
Conference Report
Unlike Us #3 conference report
Unpublished document. Edited by Serena Westra and Stijn Peeters. | Download PDF
Theory on Demand
TOD #12: Variant Analyses, Interrogations of New Media Art and Culture, Patrick Lichty
Author: Patrick Lichty. Editorial support: Morgan Currie. Design: Katja van Stiphout. DTP: Margreet Riphagen & Katja van Stiphout. Printer: ‘Print on Demand’. Publisher: Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam 2013. ISBN: 978-90-818575-4-3 | Download PDF
Theory on Demand
TOD #11: Creative Networks, in the Rearview Mirror of Eastern European History, Rasa Smite
Author: Rasa Smite. Translation (in English): Linda Vebere. Copy editing: Miriam Rasch. Publisher: Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam 2012. ISBN: 978-90-818575-0-5. | Download PDF
INC Reader
Video Vortex Reader II: Moving Images Beyond YouTube
Edited by Geert Lovink and Rachel Somers Miles | Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2011 | Download PDF
Studies in Network Cultures
Nettitudes – Let’s Talk Net Art, Josephine Bosma
Josephine Bosma, Nettitudes: Let's Talk Net Art, NAi Publishers, Rotterdam and the Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, 2011. ISBN 978-90-5662-800-0. | Buy the book
Conference Report
The Unbound Book conference report
The Unbound Book Conference Report. Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2011. 57 p. | Download PDF
Conference Report
Unlike Us #2 conference report
Conference report. Edited by Magreet Riphagen and Serena Westra. | Download PDF
Geert Lovink's Books
Networks Without a Cause, Geert Lovink
Geert Lovink, Networks Without a Cause: A critique of Social Media: Cambridge, Polity Press, 2011. ISBN: 9780745649672. | Buy the book
Geert Lovink's Books
Das halbwegs Soziale: Eine Kritik der Vernetzungskultur by Geert Lovink
Geert Lovink, Networks Without a Cause: A critique of Social Media: Cambridge, Polity Press, 2011. ISBN: 9780745649672 | Buy the book
Network Notebooks
by Eric Kluitenberg | Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2011 | Download PDF
Network Notebooks
by Rosa Menkman | Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, 2011 | Download PDF
Theory on Demand
Beyond ICT4D: New Media Research in Uganda
by Ali Balunywa, Guido van Diepen, Wouter Dijkstra, Kai Henriquez, Ben White and Geert Lovink | Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam 2011 | Download PDF
INC Reader
Critical Point of View: A Wikipedia Reader
edited by Geert Lovink and Nathaniel Tkacz | Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2011 | Download PDF
Theory on Demand
My First Recession: Critical Internet Culture in Transition
by Geert Lovink | Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2011 | Download PDF
Theory on Demand
Depletion Design: A Glossary of Network Ecologies
Edited by Carolin Wiedemann and Soenke Zehle | Amsterdam Institute of Network Cultures, 2012 | Download PDF
Theory on Demand
Image, Time and Motion: New Media Critique from Turkey
edited by Andreas Treske, Ufuk Onen, Bestem Büyüm and I. Alev Degim | Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2011 | Download PDF
Studies in Network Cultures
Web Aesthetics: How Digital Media Affect Culture and Society
by Vito Campanelli | Rotterdam and Amterdam: NAi Publishers and the Institute of Network Cultures, 2010 | Buy the book
Conference Report
Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2010 | Download PDF
Theory on Demand
Gaming Rhythms: Play and Counterplay from the Situated to the Global
by Tom Apperley | Amsterdam, Institute of Network Cultures, 2010 | Download PDF
Network Notebooks
by Dymtri Kleiner | Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2010 | Download PDF
Theory on Demand
Spatial Aesthetics: Art, Place and the Everyday
by Nikos Papastergiadis | Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2010 | Download PDF
Conference Report
Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2010 | Download PDF
Theory on Demand
Imagine There Is No Copyright and No Cultural Conglomorates Too…
by Joost Smiers and Marieke van Schijndel | Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2009 | Download PDF
Theory on Demand
Victims’ Symptom: PTSD and Culture
edited by Ana Peraica | Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2009 | Download PDF
Theory on Demand
Dynamics of Critical Internet Culture
by Geert Lovink | Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam 2009 | Download PDF
Theory on Demand
Jugendjahre der Netzkritik: Essays zu Web 1.0 (1995-1997)
von Geert Lovink und Pit Schultz | Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam 2010 | Download PDF
Conference Report
Society of the Query: Stop Searching, Start Questioning
Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures | Download PDF
INC Reader
edited by Scott McQuire, Meredith Martin and Sabine Niederer | Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2009 | Download PDF
Miscellanea
From Weak Ties to Organized Networks: Ideas, Reports, Critiques
edited by Geert Lovink | Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2009 | Download PDF
INC Reader
Video Vortex Reader: Responses to YouTube
edited by Geert Lovink and Sabine Niederer | Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2008 | Download PDF
INC Reader
MyCreativity Reader: A Critique of Creative Industries
edited by Geert Lovink and Ned Rossiter | Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2008 | Download PDF
Studies in Network Cultures
Animal Spirit: A Bestiary of the Commons
by Matteo Pasquinelli | Rotterdam and Amsterdam: NAi Publishers and the Institute of Network Cultures, 2008 | Buy the book
Network Notebooks
The Internet of Things: A Critique of Ambient Technology and the All-seeing Network of RFID
by Rob van Kranenburg | Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, 2007 | Download PDF
Network Notebooks
Technobohemians or the new Cybertariat? New Media Work in Amsterdam a Decade After the Web
by Rosalind Gill | Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, 2007 | Download PDF
INC Reader
C’Lick Me: A Netporn Studies Reader
edited by Katrien Jacobs, Marije Janssen and Matteo Pasquinelli | Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2007 | Download PDF
Studies in Network Cultures
Delusive Spaces: Essays on Culture, Media and Technology
by Eric Kluitenberg | Rotterdam and Amsterdam: NAi Publishers and the Institute of Network Cultures, 2007. | Buy the book
Miscellanea
54.780 Woorden over Nieuwe Media Cultuur in Nederland
samengesteld door Femke Sleegers en Theo Ploeg | Instituut voor Netwerkcultuur i.s.m. het Sandberg Instituut, 2007 | Download PDF
Miscellanea
edited by Mieke Gerritzen, Hendrik-Jan Grievink, Geert Lovink, Sabine Niederer and Ned Rossiter | Amsterdam: Instituut voor Netwerkcultuur, 2007 | Download PDF
Geert Lovink's Books
Zero Comments: Blogging and Critical Internet Culture
by Geert Lovink | New York: Routledge, 2007 | Buy the book
Geert Lovink's Books
edited by Geert Lovink and Trebor Scholz | New York: Autonomedia, 2007 | Buy the book
Studies in Network Cultures
Organized Networks: Media Theory, Creative Labour, New Institutions
by Ned Rossiter | Rotterdam and Amsterdam: NAi Publishers and the Institute of Network Cultures, 2006 | Buy the book
INC Reader
edited by Geert Lovink and Soenke Zehle | Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2005 | Download PDF
Geert Lovink's Books
The Principle of Notworking: Concepts in Critical Internet Culture
by Geert Lovink | Amsterdam: AUP, 2005 | Download PDF
Geert Lovink's Books
My First Recession: Critical Internet Culture in Transition
by Geert Lovink | Rotterdam: V2_NAi Publishers, 2003 | Buy the book
Geert Lovink's Books
Uncanny Networks: Dialogues with the Virtual Intelligentsia
by Geert Lovink | Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002 | Buy the book
Geert Lovink's Books
Dark Fiber: Tracking Critical Internet Culture
by Geert Lovink | Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002 | Buy the book