Institute of Network Cultures

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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

Deep Pockets #3: Scenes of Independence: Cultural Ruptures in Zagreb (1991-2019)

By Sepp Eckenhaussen. Description: After the violent disintegration of Yugoslavia, a flourishing cultural scene was established in Croatia’s capital Zagreb. The scene calls itself: independent culture. In this book, Sepp Eckenhaussen explores the history of Zagreb’s independent culture through three questions: How were independent cultures born? To whom do they belong? And what is [...] |

Conference Report

MoneyLab #7 Outside of Finance 2019 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

The Critical Makers Reader: (Un)learning Technology

Loes Bogers, Letizia Chiappini (eds), The Critical Makers Reader: (Un)learning Technology, Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2018. ISBN: 978-94-92302-19-9. |

Theory on Demand

TOD#31: Media Do Not Exist

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, Geert Lovink

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

Our Commons: Political Ideas for a New Europe

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

Amsterdam Design Manifesto

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

TOD #30: Bilwet Fascismemap (1983-1994)

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

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

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

TOD #28: Communities at a Crossroads

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

TOD #29: Good Data

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

How to Nothing

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: Volume Two

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

De Muur

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

Proof-of-Transaction: The Materiality of Cryptocurrency

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

Disruption des Journalismus

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

Organization after Social Media

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

TOD #27: Videoblogging Before YouTube

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

Turning for the Masses

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

Fictiocracy: Media and Politics in the Age of Storytelling

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

MoneyLab Reader 2: Overcoming the Hype

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

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

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

TOD #25: General Theory of the Precariat

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

Zero Infinite #4: The Online Self

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

The Post-Digital Condition

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

Choose How You Feel: You Have Seven Options

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

Digital Comics: Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger?

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

A Dream of an Algorithm

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

The Art of Flex: Network Lessons from Post Internet Art

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

The Islamic State Unfiltered

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

The Web and its Wanderers

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

The Effect of the List

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

I, For One, Welcome Our New (Google) Overlords

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

Het Beeld van de Wereld / Het Wereldbeeld van Google

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

Zero Infinite #3 – Listing Technology

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

TOD #23: +KAOS: Ten Years of Hacking and Media Activism

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

Video Vortex XI Kochi 2017 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

Zero Infinite #2 Postdigital Publishing

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

TOD #22: The List Serves: Population Control and Power

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

Zero Infinite #1 Pausing Precarity

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 2016 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

TOD #21: Playful Mapping in the Digital Age

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

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

Deep Pocket #1: Spate: A Navigational Theory of Networks

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

Navigating 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

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

TOD #18: Geoblocking and Global Video Culture

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 2015 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

TOD #17: The Gray Zones of Creativity and Capital

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

Network Notebook #10: The Internet Revolution: From Dot-com Capitalism to Cybernetic Communism by Richard Barbrook, with Andy Cameron

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

MoneyLab Reader: An Intervention in Digital Economy

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

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 |

Miscellanea

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. |

Miscellanea

The Volkskrant Building: Manufacturing Difference in Amsterdam’s Creative City, Boukje Cnossen and Sebastian Olma

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

Society of the Query Magazine offer 10 articles in Dutch on web search and search engines, adapted especially for educational purposes. | Download PDF

Miscellanea

Tulipomania DotCom Reader

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

Society of the Query Reader: Reflections on Web Search

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

Society of the Query #2 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 Magazine

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

ideo Vortex Reader II: moving images beyond YouTube, Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2011. ISBN: 978-90-78146-12-4, paperback, 378 pages. | 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

Network Notebook #05: Legacies of Tactical Media, Eric Kluitenberg

Eric Kluitenberg, Legacies of Tactical Media. Network Notebooks 05, Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, 2011. ISBN/EAN 978-90-816021-8-1. | Download PDF

Network Notebooks

Network Notebook #04: The Glitch Moment(um), Rosa Menkman

Rosa Menkman, The Glitch Moment(um). Network Notebooks 04, Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, 2011. ISBN: 978-90-816021-6-7. | Download PDF

Theory on Demand

TOD #10: Beyond ICT4D: New Media Research in Uganda

Authors: Ali Balunywa , Guido van Diepen, Wouter Dijkstra, Kai Henriquez and Ben White. Editor: Geert Lovink Copy editing: Cindy Jeffers, Lily Antflick and Morgan Currie. Publisher: Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam 2011. ISBN: 978-90-816021-9-8. | Download PDF

INC Reader

Critical Point of View: A Wikipedia Reader

Geert Lovink and Nathaniel Tkacz (eds), Critical Point of View: A Wikpedia Reader, Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2011. ISBN: 978-90-78146-13-1, paperback, 385 pages. | Download PDF

Theory on Demand

TOD #09: My First Recession, Critical Internet Culture In Transition, Geert Lovink

Edited by: Ned Rossiter. Publisher: Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam 2011. ISBN: 978-90-816021-7-4. | Download PDF

Theory on Demand

TOD #08: Depletion Design: A Glossary of Network Ecologies

Editorial support: Carolin Wiedemann and Soenke Zehle Published in cooperation with xm:lab. Additional support by the Ministry of Education and Culture. Design: Katja van Stiphout. DTP: Margreet Riphagen. ISBN: 978-90-818575-1-2 | Download PDF

Theory on Demand

TOD #07: Image, Time and Motion: New Media Critique from Turkey

Edited by: Andreas Treske, Ufuk Onen, Bestem Büyüm and I. Alev Degim. Publisher: Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam 2011. ISBN: 978-90-816021-5-0. | Download PDF

Conference Report

Video Vortex #6 conference report

Conference Report VV6. Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, June 2011. 85 p. | Download PDF

Studies in Network Cultures

Web Aesthetics, Vito Campanelli

Vito Campanelli, Web Aesthetics; How Digital Media Affect Culture and Society, NAi Publishers, Rotterdam and the Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, 2010. ISBN 978-90-5662-770-6, Paperback, swen, 276 pages, Size: 14 x 21 cm. € 23.50 | Buy the book

Conference Report

Economies of the Commons #2 conference report

Conference report Economies of the commons #2. Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2010. 48 p. | Download PDF

Theory on Demand

TOD #06: Gaming Rhythms: Play and Counterplay from the Situated to the Global, Tom Apperley

Author: Tom Apperley. Publisher: Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam 2010. ISBN: 978-90-816021-1-2. | Download PDF

Network Notebooks

Network Notebook #03: The Telekommunist Manifesto, Dmytri Kleiner

Dymtri Kleiner, The Telekommunist. Network Notebooks 03, Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, 2010. ISBN: 978-90-816021-2-9. | Download PDF

Theory on Demand

TOD #05: Spatial Aesthetics: Art, Place and the Everyday, Nikos Papastergiadis

Authors: Nikos Papastergiadis. Publisher: Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam 2010. ISBN: 978-90-816021-3-6. | Download PDF

Conference Report

Critical Point of View conference report

Critical Point of View conference report. Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2010. 35 p. | Download PDF

Theory on Demand

TOD #04: Imagine There Is No Copyright and No Cultural Conglomorates Too…, Joost Smiers & Marieke van Schijndel

Authors: Joost Smiers and Marieke van Schijndel, Translation from Dutch: Rosalind Buck. Publisher: Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam 2009. ISBN: 978-90-78146-09-4. | Download PDF

Theory on Demand

TOD #03: Victims’ Symptom (PTSD and Culture), Ana Peraica

Editor: Ana Peraica, Copy editing: Vicky Anning, Michael Dieter, Amsterdam, 2008. Publisher: Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam 2009. ISBN: 978-90-78146-11-7 | Download PDF

Theory on Demand

TOD #01: Dynamics of Critical Internet Culture by Geert Lovink

Author: Geert Lovink. Editorial support: Ned Rossiter. Publisher: Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam 2009. ISBN: 978-90-78146-07-0. | Download PDF

Theory on Demand

TOD #02: Jugendjahre der Netzkritik, Essays zu Web 1.0 (1995-1997), Geert Lovink & Pit Schultz

Authors: Geert Lovink and Pit Schultz, Editorial support: Andreas Kallfelzslation, Publisher: Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam 2010. ISBN: 978-90-816021-4-3. | Download PDF

Conference Report

Society of the Query conference report

Society of the Query conference report. Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2009. 51 p. | Download PDF

INC Reader

Urban Screens

Scott McQuire, Meredith Martin and Sabine Niederer (eds.), Urban Screens Reader, Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2009. ISBN: 978-90-78146-10-0. | Download PDF

INC Reader

From Weak Ties to Organized Networks

From Weak Ties to Organized Networks, Ideas, Reports, Critiques, Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2009. ISBN: 978-90-78146-08-7. | Download PDF

INC Reader

Video Vortex

Geert Lovink and Sabine Niederer (eds.), Video Vortex Reader: Responses to YouTube, Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2008. ISBN: 978-90-78146-05-6. | Download PDF

INC Reader

MyCreativity Reader, Geert Lovink, Ned Rossiter

Geert Lovink and Ned Rossiter, MyCreativity Reader: A Critique of Creative Industries, Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2008. ISBN 978-90-78146-04-9 | Download PDF

Studies in Network Cultures

Animal Spirit, Matteo Pasquinelli

Matteo Pasquinelli, Animal Spirits: A Bestiary of the Commons, NAi Publishers, Rotterdam and the Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, 2008. ISBN 978-90-5662-663-1. Paperback, sewn, 240 pages, Size: 16 X 23 cm. € 23.50 | Buy the book

Network Notebooks

Network Notebook #02: The Internet of Things, Rob van Kranenburg

Rob van Kranenburg, The Internet of Things. A critique of ambient technology and the all-seeing network of RFID, Network Notebooks 02, Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, 2007. ISBN: 978-90-78146-06-3. | Download PDF

Network Notebooks

Network Notebook #01: Technobohemians or the new Cybertariat, Rosalind Gill

Rosalind Gill, Technobohemians or the new Cybertariat? New media work in Amsterdam a decade after the web, Network Notebooks 01, Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, 2007. ISBN: 978-90-78146-02-5. | Download PDF

INC Reader

The Art and Politics of Netporn

C’Lick Me: A Netporn Studies Reader, Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2007. ISBN: 978-90-78146-03-2. | Download PDF

Studies in Network Cultures

Delusive Spaces, Eric Kluitenberg

Eric Kluitenberg, Delusive Spaces: Essays on Culture, Media and Technology, NAi Publishers, Rotterdam and the Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, 2007. ISBN 978-90-5662-617-4. Paperback, sewn, 250 pages, Size: 16 X 23 cm. € 23.50 | Buy the book

Miscellanea

54.780 Woorden over Nieuwe Media Cultuur in Nederland

Femke Sleegers en Theo Ploeg (eds.), 54.780 Woorden over Nieuwe Media Cultuur in Nederland, Instituut voor Netwerkcultuur i.s.m. het Sandberg Instituut, 2007. | Download PDF

Miscellanea

The Creativity

Mieke Gerritzen, Hendrik-Jan Grievink, Geert Lovink, Sabine Niederer and Ned Rossiter (eds.), The Creativity, Amsterdam: Instituut voor Netwerkcultuur, 2007. | Download PDF

Geert Lovink's Books

Zero Comments, Geert Lovink

Geert Lovink, Zero Comments: Blogging and Critical Internet Culture, New York: Routledge, 2007. ISBN: 978-04-1597-315-1. The German translation is published by Transkript Verlag, Bielefeld, Germany. ISBN: 978-3-89942-804-9. | Buy the book

Geert Lovink's Books

The Art of Free Cooperation

The Art of Free Cooperation, New York: Autonomedia, 2007. ISBN: 978-15-7027-177-9. Paperback & DVD, 192 pages, $20. | Buy the book

Studies in Network Cultures

Organized Networks, Ned Rossiter

Ned Rossiter, Organized Networks: Media Theory, Creative Labour, New Institutions, NAi Publishers, Rotterdam and the Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, 2006. ISBN 90-5662-526-8. Paperback, sewn, 250 pages, Size: 16 x 23 cm. € 23.50 | Buy the book

INC Reader

Incommunicado Reader

Geert Lovink and Soenke Zehle (eds.), Incommunicado Reader, Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2005. ISBN: 90-78146-01-X. | Download PDF

Geert Lovink's Books

The Principle of Notworking, Geert Lovink

Geert Lovink, The Principle of Notworking: Concepts in Critical Internet Culture, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2005. | Download PDF

Geert Lovink's Books

My First Recession, Geert Lovink

Geert Lovink, My First Recession: Critical Internet Culture in Transition, Rotterdam: V2_NAi Publishers, 2003. ISBN: 90-5662-353-2. | Buy the book

Geert Lovink's Books

Uncanny Networks, Geert Lovink

Geert Lovink, Uncanny Networks: Dialogues with the Virtual Intelligentsia, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002. ISBN: 0262621878. Paperback, 390 pages | Buy the book

Geert Lovink's Books

Dark Fiber, Geert Lovink

Geert Lovink, Dark Fiber: Tracking Critical Internet Culture, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002. ISBN: 0262621800. Paperback, 394 pages. | Buy the book

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