friday feb 24: please join the 24hr live art casting of ukrainatv, live from krakow and many other locations

CARBON COMMUNITY) TALK / projects presentation and AV-bridge with the CARBON studio (Kyiv) 14:55 FED. (f. Geert Lovink) – ANYTHING ANYMORE Premiere of the clip (prod. UKRAiNATV / edit. Rom Dziadkiewicz, starring: Yimi Audu) PART III – TIME FOR ACTION! 15:00 INC x VOID.TV SHOW starring: Geert

The Politics of Platformization: Amsterdam Dialogues on Platform Theory - Interviews by Gianmarco Cristofari

of internal cross-references that highlight the multi-layered connections from which platform power emerges. In conversation with: Davide Beraldo and Giovanni Rossetti; Balázs Bodó; Letizia Chiappini; Niels van Doorn; Anne Helmond; Joris van Hoboken; Paddy Leerssen; Geert Lovink; Stefania Milan

Another Social Network is Possible!–On Bernard Stiegler and the Social Media Question

and be inspired, talk soon. Geert — https://networkcultures.org/geert/2022/12/28/harry-halpin-geert-lovink-another-social-network-is-possible-on-bernard-stiegler-and-the-social-media-question/ <https://networkcultures.org/geert/2022/12/28/harry-halpin-geert-lovink-another-social-network

Extinction Internet

. — Preface by Geert Lovink My gratitude goes to prof. Mia Lerm Hayes to make it all possible, and to Frank Kresin, Dean of the Faculty Digital Media and Creative Industries, to facilitate the sponsorship of this chair by the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. A few words about the background

Takedown of Z-Library and next steps

For the context: Z-library’s take down left users in shock, anger https://maktoobmedia.com/2022/11/07/z-librarys-take-down-left-users-in-shock-anger/ — Putting 5,998,794 books on IPFS http://annas-blog.org/putting-5,998,794-books-on-ipfs.html

Critical Meme Reader II out--Memes Beyond Images: Memetic Tacticality Conference tomorrow

? Contributors: Pierre d’Alancaisez, Chloë Arkenbout, Bhumika Bhattacharya, Marijn Bril, Savriël Dillingh, Tom Divon, Jasmine Erkan & Emma Damiani, Inte Gloerich, Manique Hendricks, Katrin Köppert, Isabel Löfgren, Geert Lovink, Mariana Manousopoulou, Anahita Neghabat & Caren Miesenberger, Laurenc

What's More Important than Two Women Talking About Web Development?

https://networkcultures.org/void/2022/11/07/the-void-04-memorable-websites/ THE VOID 04 | Memorable Websites Episode 1 of the mini-series 'What's More Important than Two Women Talking About Web Development?' by Maisa Imamović and Clara Pasteau. Maisa and Clara describe and discuss 15 memorable

support SymbioticA

From: Nina Temporär Dear all, I was informed that the University of Western Australia is planning to shut down the legendary SymbioticA artistic research lab. https://www.symbiotica.uwa.edu.au/ insta: @symbiotica.lab One can support SymbioticA by signing th

Re: The Psychology of the Web Developer by Maisa Imamović

And here is the URL: https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/the-psychology-of-the-web-developer-reality-of-a-female-freelancer/ # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics

The Psychology of the Web Developer by Maisa Imamović

At INC we’re proud to present Maisa Imamović's first book: The Psychology of the Web Developer, Reality of a Female Freelancer (INC Deep Pockets #4) Underneath the user interface of any website—be it simple or complex—lurks the web developer’s struggle with money, prestige, and power. An ever-l

Phil Agre workshop in Siegen (Germany), Sept 1-2, 2022

contributions from a range of scholars. In addition, we have a number of ‘conversations’ with scholars who will consider various aspects of Agre’s thought, from Lucy Suchman and David Chapman, to Geert Lovink, Marina Gržinić and David Murakami Wood. The workshop will also dedicate time to

Re: il rifascismo naziliberista di giorgia meloni

Thanks, Alex. Here a related recent text by Sandro Mezzadra and Toni Negri that we translated @INC. Best, Geert — Sandro Mezzadra & Toni Negri: Join the Global Fight against the Regime of War (The Italian original, Lottare contro il regime di guerra a livello globale, was published August 7, 20

Tactical Media Room publication and interview with Svitlana Matviyenko

y not be interested in cyberwar, but cyberwar is interested in you." Interview with Svitlana Matviyenko by Geert Lovink It’s July 2022. Four months into her diary project Svitlana writes me: “The sirens are here again. Since 3 am, they say we can't ignore sirens any more, since Rus

Deep Ecology in the Cognitive Capitalocene (free online public lecture series)

Deep Ecology in the Cognitive Capitalocene SFSIA 2022 | New York City in collaboration with The Brooklyn Rail FREE ONLINE PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES A central feature of SFSIA is a public lecture ser

UKRAINE SOLIDARITY SCREENING

Dear netimers, please all come to the Tactical Media Meetup #2: SPECIAL SOLIDARITY SCREENING June 2, 2022 20:00 - 22:30 De Waag Nieuwmarkt 4 Amsterdam (NL), curated by Serge Klymko, the founder of the Emergency Support Initiative. 90’ and by moderated by Florian Göttke More info here: https://

Colloque d’hommage à la pensée de Bernard Stiegler 20, 21, 22 juin 2022 (Paris Nanterre)

Nous avons le plaisir de partager avec vous l'argumentaire et le programme du colloque d'hommage à la pensée de Bernard Stiegler "De la philosophie à l'organologie et au-delà ? Penser le devenir des savoirs dans l'exosomatisation numérique" – organisé par Anne Alombert, Michal Krzykawski et Fran

Mental Long Covid and the Third Unconscious, interview with Franco Berardi

sis of the present. Geert Lovink: The Third Unconscious is not a Covid diary. How do you look back at the past two years? It doesn’t feel like it’s over, despite history accelerating with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Instead of orgasmic celebrations many seem reluctant and have internalized th

irregular ukraine linklist

Please read Svitlana Matviyenko’s latest dairy entry on INC’s Ukraine blog: part 9 https://networkcultures.org/blog/2022/05/10/dispatches-from-the-place-of-imminence-part-9/ Twitch is one of the few platforms Ukrainians can use to speak directly to the Russian people https://www.vice.com/en/arti

Just out: Stuck on the Platform by Geert Lovink

sense of the rising disaffection with the platform condition? Zoom fatigue, cancel culture, crypto art, NFTs and psychic regression comprise core elements of a general theory of platform culture. Geert Lovink argues that we reclaim the internet on our own terms. Stuck on the Platform is a

Re: Proposition on Peak Data

Dear nettimers, thanks a lot for all your interesting contributions so far to the ‘peak data’ debate. My contribution was a simple proposition, indeed, borrowing from the peak oil metaphor. I shied away from an a-historical, ontological, metaphysical approach about data-in-general or data-as-su

Workshop Agre After Techno-Utopianism 1-2. September 2022 (University of Siegen, Germany)

From: tatjana.se...@uni-siegen.de Dear nettimers, I would like to invite you all to our forthcoming workshop, 'Agre After Techno-Utopianism', on the work of Philip E. Agre. It will be held (on site/hybrid) at the University of Siegen, Germany on 1-2 September, 2022, hosted by Media of Cooperat

Irregular Ukraine Linklist

Ukranian Dispatches https://newfascismsyllabus.com/category/contributions/ukrainian-dispatches/ Mariupol computer museum destroyed (via Patrice) https://kbd.news/Mariupol-computer-museum-destroyed-1327.html Essay and Zoom interview with Ukranian film maker Oleksyi Radynski (via Alex) https://www.

Proposition on Peak Data

“Wenn es um empirische Methoden ging, wurde Adorno grundsätzlich misstrauisch, denn eine Wissenschaft die auf Zählen, Messen und Wiegen reduziert wurde, machte für ihn den Triumph der Verdinglichung perfekt.” Jörg Später (1) Data, the raw material from which information is derived, is stored, co

Irregular Ukraine Links

Alexander Isavnin: The Russian Sovereign Internet and Number Resources https://labs.ripe.net/author/alexander-isavnin/the-russian-sovereign-internet-and-number-resources/ Witnessing U: Testimonials from the front line https://toneelmakerij.nl/en/voorstellingen/witnessing-u/ The Last Days Of Mariu

Call for Proposals – Our Creative Reset-INC Conference, Amsterdam, July 1, 2022

https://networkcultures.org/ourcreativereset/2022/03/22/call-for-proposals-our-creative-reset/ What lies beyond the ruins of the creative industries ideology? Can we imagine the end of precarity? Wha

Irregular Ukraine Linklist

Compiled for/by INC Ukraine page and more tech meets tactical media initiatives https://networkcultures.org/blog/category/ukraine/ Donation campaign for Ukranian media https://www.gofundme.com/f/keep-ukraines-media-going

stop South Korea’s shutdown of womenonweb.kr

International coalition to support filing of a suit to stop South Korea’s shutdown of womenonweb.kr On December 13, 2020, the Korea Communication Standards Commission (KCSC) issued a ruling to block South Korea’s access to womenonweb.kr , Women on W

Ukraine debates, dialogues and resources

Dear nettimers, here at INC in Amsterdam we have been in contact with several of you over the past days to discuss what concrete steps we can take to support artists, designers, researchers, geeks, theorists, critics and other irregulars in Belarus, Russia, Ukraine and the surrounding countries

MONEYLAB NFT ESSAY PRIZE

rd channel and the Zoom session experts and members of the selection committee will be on-hand to offer supportive and constructive feedback. For the MoneyLab board: Max Haiven, Ela Kagel and Geert Lovink https://www.networkcultures.org/moneylab <https://www.networkcultures.org/moneylab> #

23 years ago, the launch of ReadMe! ASCII Culture and the Revenge of Knowledge by Nettime

to: nettim...@desk.nl Subject: nettime readme! book available From: nett...@desk.nl date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 17:34:59 +0100 Sender: owner-nettim...@basis.desk.nl Jim Fleming of Autonomedia just confirmed that

call for proposal for two events in berlin & amsterdam on memes beyond the image

Proposals: viralimagecult...@networkcultures.org <mailto:viralimagecult...@networkcultures.org> Further information and questions: ch...@networkcultures.org <mailto:ch...@networkcultures.org> Both events are curated by Chloë Arkenbout and Geert Lovink. Selected participants will

MoneyLab linklist

Dear nettimers, as you may know one of the original nettime ideas was—and still is—collaborative filtering. Every month or so I collect URL from the wider MoneyLab Umfeld and post them on the ML list. Then, twice or so a year I put them on the blog. Here is the latest linklist from April-Oct 202

Launch of INC's Critical Meme Reader, Oct 7 5PM Amsterdam

(paper copies of the critical meme reader arrived today in the INC storage cellar, expect it in your mailbox soon) https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/critical-meme-reader-global-mutations-of-the-viral-image/ On the occasion of the launch of the ‘Critical Meme Reader, Global Mutations o

Just out: INC Critical Meme Reader: Global Mutations of the Viral Image

INC Reader #15 Critical Meme Reader: Global Mutations of the Viral Image Edited by Chloë Arkenbout, Jack Wilson and Daniel de Zeeuw Beyond the so-called ‘Alt-right’ and its attendant milieus on 4chan and Reddit, memes have passed the post-digital threshold and entered new theoretical, practi

LEAVING AFGHANISTAN: kabul.int etherpad

From: David Herzog mailto:dher...@xs9.xs4all.nl>> please forward this message *** https://kabul.int.igel-muc.de *** kabul.int is an etherpad project about leaving Afghanistan with the aim to help with Afghan relocation schemes 4freedom of movement and free xs4all

Next Yes Men prank: Andy Bichlbaum posing as Paul Wolfowitz

Far-right Newsmax accidentally lets viewers know that war can't make us proud

In three hours: Bernard Stiegler Memorial Lecture

Bernard Stiegler Memorial Lecture 2021 (on Zoom) Thursday, 5 August 2021 20:00-21:30 (Beijing), 14:00-15:30 (Paris) The Research Network for Philosophy and Technology together with the China Academy of Art launches an annual memorial lecture dedicated to Bernard Stiegler (1 April 1952-5 August 2

New Statesman: How Google quietly funds Europe’s leading tech policy institutes

https://www.newstatesman.com/business/sectors/2021/07/how-google-quietly-funds-europe-s-leading-tech-policy-institutes How Google quietly funds Europe’s leading tech policy institutes By Laurie Clarke, Oscar Williams and Katharine Swindels The search giant has provided tens of millions of pounds

Pandemic Exchange - How Artists Experience the COVID-19 Crisis - Edited by Josephine Bosma (INC ToD #41)

INC Theory on Demand #41 Pandemic Exchange How Artists Experience the COVID-19 Crisis Edited by Josephine Bosma https://networkcultures.org/blog/2021/07/19/out-now-pandemic-exchange-how-artists-experience-the-covid-19-crisis/ News reports on the Covid-19 pandemic seldom include how the virus and t

Among Cultists: The State of Bitcoin by Max Grünberg

From: Max Grünberg Subject: The State of Bitcoin Date: 10 July 2021 at 11:59:00 am GMT+2 https://kim.hfg-karlsruhe.de/the-state-of-bitcoin/ n June 8 2021 a supermajority in the national congress of El Salvador approved president Nayib Bukele

let's gather for this video vortex jam this thursday 6-8 pm cet

University in Rome. Organized and hosted by Donatella Della Ratta and Albert Figurt (in Rome) and Andreas Treske and Geert Lovink (online), we will switch between a conversation robot, Zoom, a drone and the obligatory online video screening in an experimental setup that will try to beat the overall

Google data centre involved in NL land price and wind energy corruption

How Groningen got caught up in cronyism by the arrival of Google By Bas Haan (NOS - Dutch Public Broadcasting) Original Dutch version here: https://nos.nl/nieuwsuur/artikel/2380318-hoe-ze-in-groningen-in-de-ban-raakten-van-vriendjespolitiek-door-de-komst-van-google (translated for nettime by de

Re: deep humanities initiative

And do not forget the term 'deep Europe', one of the many inventions coming from the nettime scene… neither East nor West or continental… https://v2.nl/events/deep-europe/view Geert > On 24 Apr 2021, at 8:36 am, Michael H. Goldhaber > wrote: > > Is it

countdown for MoneyLab #11 Disaster Capitalism in Berlin

Dear nettimers,, last preparations are on their way for the fourth all virtual MoneyLab event this weekend, coordinated by Supermarkt in Berlin. We’re still looking for volunteers that want to write a report about a specific session for the INC MoneyLab blog. If you’re interested, drop me a lin

Re: what does monetary value indicate?

nettime link list on money and crypto art (recent ones on top) compiled by geert lovink for moneylab The Downward Spiral: Popular Things by Dean Kissick (via Josephine Bosma) https://www.spikeartmagazine.com/articles/downward-spiral-popular-things-dean-kissick <https://www.spikeartmagazine.

Re: what does monetary value indicate?

Dear nettimers, I am happy Felix raised the issue here. As you all know we’ve been dealing with these issues, here at the Institute of Network Cultures, since 2013 when we started the MoneyLab network (www.networkcultures.org/moneylab). We’ve been dealing with the rise of crypto art from day on

Program of MoneyLab #11 Berlin: Disaster Capitalism (March 26-28, 2021)

ay, March 26, 2021 4:00 - 4.30pm Welcome to MoneyLab Berlin: Thoughts on Disaster Capitalism by Ela Kagel, initiator of MoneyLab Berlin & managing partner of SUPERMARKT <https://supermarkt-berlin.net/> and Geert Lovink, initiator of MoneyLab <https://networkcultures.org/moneylab/a

Re: MoneyLab Zoom Debate on GameStop today, please join

If you missed the MoneyLab GameStop debate on Zoom, here's the video recording. 90 people attended the lively discussion: https://vimeo.com/507592481 <https://vimeo.com/507592481> > On 1 Feb 2021, at 10:47 am, Geert Lovink wrote: > > Dear nettimers, > > Over the pas

MoneyLab Zoom Debate on GameStop today, please join

Dear nettimers, Over the past weeks the swarm of small-time, amateur investors “revenge buying” stock in GameStop, AMC and other firms has sent shivers down the spine of Wall Street and led to unprecedented reactions from establishment experts, regulators and corporations. Is this the insurgenc

Re: The List needs a new Topic

> On 19 Jan 2021, at 9:52 pm, bronac ferran wrote: > > The List needs a new Topic Bronac, I agree. This was a tense thread, but also a worthty end of the Trump era. On a bright note, look at this video again: Trump rapping China, China, China: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDrfE9I8_hs

Re: made for TV, made for social media

> flying in on their private jets. The formation and legacies of whiteness in > the US are a key animating factor here in a way that crosses class lines. It > also fuels the way the mob claimed the title “patriot” and invoked 1776. > > Tara > > (Sent by pneumatic tube.) &g

Re: made for TV, made for social media

Good question, Keith. Was it a putch without a purpose of a mob without a cause? For sure they were all revved up, dazed by meme magick and shit, looking for the best selfie opportunity. Once we enter the heart of the power, and roam around there, we do not face power as such. No need to repea

Please join the launch of From Opinions to Images by Ulus S. Baker, Nov. 19, 2020

Opinions to Images with Angela Melitopoulos, Lewis Johnson, Aras Ozgün and Andreas Treske. The event is moderated by Geert Lovink (INC) and introduced by Prof. Dr. Kürşat Çağıltay (GISAM). About Opinions to Images: Essays Towards a Sociology of Affects’ by Ulus S. Baker Ulus Baker (1960 – 2

Re: discussing zoom fatigue

now, for many of us, our way of life. Best from Geert > On 3 Jul 2020, at 11:27 am, Geert Lovink wrote: > > Dear nettimers, > > I suppose many of you who’re into teaching have had an intense and exhausting > period of giving online classes. > > I am trying to gath

latest on MoneyLab #X (Australia, November 5/6)

Dear nettimers, the MoneyLab network is more or less adjusting to the Corona measures worldwide. As you might know we’re bringing together critical artistic and political responses to the expanding field of digital money, bloandckchain, DAOs, defi but also crowdfunding, UBI, cashless society an

Re: Lev on the embarressment of digital art

Great postings, Brian, Molly, John and so many others. Lev or no Lev, the whereabouts of new media arts occupy us here, for a reason. From a political and personal perspective the opening up of a new communication medium offers unheard possibilities. Then things close down and the real struggle

Lev on the embarressment of digital art

URL or not but this is too good, and too important for nettimers, not to read and discuss. These very personal and relevant observations come from a public Facebook page and have been written by Lev Manovich (who is “feeling thoughtful” as the page indicates). — https://m.facebook.com/66836731

Just out: Peter Lunenfeld's City at the Edge of Forever, his magnus opus about Los Angeles

“People with brains went to New York and people with faces came West.” Though she is one of the city’s most fervent defenders, Eve Babitz captures a prevalent sort of sentiment about her native Los Angeles. As we see in films like Mullholland Drive and Under the Silver Lake, the cultural identit

notes on cancel culture

Delete Your Profile, Not People by Geert Lovink “The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he’s in prison.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky Nobody and nothing seems safe. “Cremated” eye shadow? Canceled <https://www.insider.com/jeffree-star-responds-to-cremated-pale

discussing zoom fatigue

Dear nettimers, I suppose many of you who’re into teaching have had an intense and exhausting period of giving online classes. I am trying to gather experiences of what’s now called ‘Zoom fatigue’. Of course this is by no means limited to Zoom and extends to Microsofts Teams and Skype, Google

++just out++ VideoVortex Reader 3: Inside the YouTube Decade

Video Vortex Reader III: Inside the YouTube Decade Edited by Geert Lovink and Andreas Treske INC Reader #14 Download it here, as e-pub, pdf or print-on-demand (via Lulu): https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/video-vortex-reader-iii-inside-the-youtube-decade/ <ht

Making Public Presents the Urgent Publishing Toolkit and Publication

Making Public Presents the Urgent Publishing Toolkit and Publication What strategies are available to publishers in the cultural and research domains to conceive, produce, and position their contents in an urgent way? In the two-year research project Making Public (2018-2020) conducted by the I

changes at INC, launch new central list called

Dear nettimers, while we’re publishing a lot, here at the Institute of Network Cultures, trying to facilitate critical reflection on the corona with diaries and essays from around the world, we’re also planning a restart of INC. Digital publishing research and output will continue, as will the

Just Out! Listening into Others: An Ethnographic Exploration in Govindpuri by Tripta Chandola

of the city. With Listening into Others, Tripta Chandola poses the question: ‘Who owns the slum, and who determines which voices are heard? From where you are, listen with me.’ Editors: Geert Lovink and Sepp Eckenhaussen Proofreading of previous versions: Dr. Jo Tacchi and Dr. Christy Collis

Hackers & Designers: OPEN CALL FOR DISTRIBUTED WORKSHOPS

OPEN CALL FOR DISTRIBUTED WORKSHOPS Throughout the years H&D has been exploring and imagining different network concepts and networked practices in many ways. Looking back at some of our activities dealing with ‘Network Imaginaries’ we are getting very excited about the upcoming Summer Academy

Hackers & Designers: OPEN CALL FOR DISTRIBUTED WORKSHOPS

OPEN CALL FOR DISTRIBUTED WORKSHOPS Throughout the years H&D has been exploring and imagining different network concepts and networked practices in many ways. Looking back at some of our activities dealing with ‘Network Imaginaries’ we are getting very excited about the upcoming Summer Academy

Latest INC Publications--Readings for the Hungry Souls

The Cloud Sailor Diary--Shanghai Life in Times of Coronavirus by Tsukino T. Usagi, a very personal account of these times, published as INC Longform. https://networkcultures.org/longform/2020/03/19/the-cloud-sailor-diary-shanghai-life-in-the-time-of-coronavirus/

Nathalie Magnan’s films now available online

Press Release - March 22, 2020 All of Nathalie Magnan’s films and several documents about… https://archive.org/details/@de_la_mule_au_web takes you to all of Nathalie Magnan's films; to recordings of some of her interviews, lectures and education

Program of MoneyLab #8 (Ljubjana, March 23-25, 2020) now online

[One of the few messages that got stuck while the mailman was broken.] TALKS | ROUND TABLES | WORKSHOPS | EXHIBITIONS Ljubljana, 23–25 March 2020 Full program here: https://moneylab8.aksioma.org/ Critical thinkers, artists, researchers, activists, and geeks in

Program of MoneyLab #8 (Ljubjana, March 23-25, 2020) now online

TALKS | ROUND TABLES | WORKSHOPS | EXHIBITIONS Ljubljana, 23–25 March 2020 Full program here: https://moneylab8.aksioma.org/ Critical thinkers, artists, researchers, activists, and geeks in search of other economies and financial discourses for a fair society.

DiEM25 Green Paper on Technological Sovereignty

Dear nettimers, I read this policy paper of the DiEM25 movement and really liked it. It’s good to see that there is progress in bringing together different fields that have been dealt with in different scenes for a long time. The text mentions the building of a digital commonwealth. “We want to

call to limit use of commercial platforms in Dutch public universities

Origial Dutch version (published 22nd December, 2019): https://www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opinie/digitalisering-bedreigt-onze-universiteit-het-is-tijd-om-ee n-grens-te-trekken

Re: Facebook

Dear nettimers, the Facebook Question is a timely and necessary debate. It turns out that we’re trapped. It is neither politically correct to leave, nor is it to stay. This is the perfect example of the current stagnation (also known as The Great Regression). This topic was already discussed

Link list on bitcoin & blockchain, libra and other MoneyLab issues (part 7)

Dear nettime, maybe you’ve seen the hearing with Marc Zuckerberg this week? In preparation of MoneyLab #7 in Amsterdam on November 14-15 I made the following link list. Many of the topics will be discussed there. No coincidence much of it is related to the Libra developments. Best, Geert MakerD

Emanuele Braga: Common Intelligence

Dear nettimers, for us, at the Institute of Network Cultures, MoneyLab #7 is approaching soon: November 14/15. Because of limited funding the event did not take place in Amsterdam for three years so the event is extra special. In the run-uo we’re collecting discussion contributions which we are

Re: Remember shih-chieh ilya li

I also just heard that our dead activist-friend Ilya from Taiwan died because of complications from cellulitis, a few days ago. Thanks, Graham, you have described his warm character very well! I can't trace the exact beginning of my friendship with Ilya but it must have been in the last nineti

Just out: Geert Lovink, Sad by Design, On Platform Nihilism, Pluto Press, 2019

tion can be found here: https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745339344/sad-by-design/ <https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745339344/sad-by-design/>. There will be a book launch in London on May 23 2019 where Geert Lovink will have a dialogue with Athina Karatzogianni: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sad-by-design

Interview with Max Haiven on Art after Money, Money after the Art

(This interview by Geert Lovink was conducted for the 2019 Venice Bienale catalogue of the Romanian pavillion, in particular Canal Grande: The Capital Pool and the Associated Public of Dan Mihaltianu, curated by Cristian Nae. The work “functions at first sight as a wishing well. It establishes

Unlike Us links on social media and their alternatives

e-question-social-media/#Paolo>, Christian Fuchs <https://stateofnatureblog.com/one-question-social-media/#Christian>, Lizzie O’Shea <https://stateofnatureblog.com/one-question-social-media/#Lizzie>, Geert Lovink <https://stateofnatureblog.com/one-question-social-media/#Geer

WikiLeaks founder and DiEM25 member Julian Assange arrested

From: Pamela Anderson and DiEM25 Sign here to avoid Assange is extradited to the US: https://i.diem25.org/petitions/1?show=form When Julian decided to uncover the mass secrets of global war crimes, espionage and dirty corporate deals, he had to fight his own instinct to keep these secrets unex

briefing on Assange extradition

> From: "WikiLeaks / Sunshine Press" > Subject: Council of Europe briefing on Assange extradition > Date: 26 March 2019 5:27:23 pm GMT+1 > BRIEFING FOR THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE > > WHY OPPOSING JULIAN ASSANGE’S EXTRADITION TO THE U.S. MATTERS FOR EUROPEAN > DEMOCRACY > > “Organisations like WikiL

'leaked' Assange transcript sheds light on expulsion

> From: "WikiLeaks / Sunshine Press" > Subject: "Leaked" Assange transcript sheds light on expulsion > Date: 7 April 2019 3:46:01 am GMT+2 > > Julian Assange has not been heard from in public since March 28, 2018 after > an executive gag order by the government of Ecuador. > > The unpublished,

resources for imminent Julian Assange arrest

> From: "WikiLeaks / Sunshine Press" > Subject: resources for imminent Julian Assange arrest > Date: 17 March 2019 4:25:48 am GMT+1 > > KEY BRIEFINGS FROM DEFEND WIKILEAKS > > Main defense site – click here > Live blog – click here >

Christchurch and the Dark Social Web by Luke Munn

Dear nettimers, we have just published this essay on our blog: Algorithmic Hate: Brenton Tarrant and the Dark Social Web, an analysis on the role of social media in the Christchurch killings, by Luke Munn, writing from Auckland/NZ: http://networkcultures.org/blog/2019/03/19/luke-munn-al

Re: scaling the humiliation

A rewrite: One other side, championed in the US, is a digital landscape where Google and Facebook have replaced freedom of speech. Social media are the apps that matter, and users can chat and surf the web with one app. The downsides: corporations reign absolute, and are watching you — you may

"Facebook is the New Crapware"

Dear nettimers, a. you have all left Facebook by now (or ages ago), b. you are still on it, c. could not be bothered, d. are busy with more relevant topics. Here is some material in case you want to be uptodate about the social media question. We’re now ten months into the Cambridge Analytica ca

Statement by Assange legal team U.S. interrogation a dozen diplomats from his embassy

"Ecuador's new regime has done a 180 turn in relation to protecting Mr. Assange and is now assisting the U.S. government to interrogate its own diplomats about him. This is a flagrant violation of Ecuador's binding legal obligations under refugee law to not assist agents of the U.S. in their att

Sad by Design, the essay

Dear nettimers, I am proud to announce the publication in English of the title essay of my next book, Sad by Design, published by Eurozine in Vienna: https://www.eurozine.com/sad-by-design/ . In this essay I am investigating the many dimensions of ‘tec

update from the Institute of Network Cultures

Dear nettimers, how are you all? I am going through the impressive paper mausoleum for Mark Fisher, K-Punk. I am curious, what do you read? I felt the urge to send you an update of what we’re doing in Amsterdam. After a desastrous 2017 with no funding and no events, our small research recovered

The Future of Paper Tiger Television

From: deepd...@igc.org Paper Tiger Television was founded as a non-profit media collective in 1981 with the purpose of advancing criticism of corporate media, and independent production. Since then, it has produced hundreds of programs and worked with organizations to amplify social justice cau

"Deep Dish had not met the challenge of transitioning from public access TV to newer technologies."

DEEP DISH TV TO DISSOLVE BY END OF 2018 Archives Preserved for Generations to Come New York, NY, December, 2018 — The Board of Trustees of Deep Dish TV voted unanimously last May to dissolve the organization. The process is underway and should be completed by the end of the year. After much

Bridging the Gap between Technology and Progressive Politics in Europe

together? Should this be a festival, a translocal network, a support campaign for various movements? Let us know what you think and if you want to get involved. Geert Lovink (ge...@xs4all.nl <mailto:ge...@xs4all.nl>, Amsterdam) and Donatella Della Ratta (d...@mediaoriente.com <

"THERE IS NO PEACE WITHOUT DIGITAL PEACE" (Micosoft)

https://digitalpeace.microsoft.com/ "We are digital citizens—members of a thriving online global society. We trust technology to help us do our jobs, create communities and connect us. As digital citizens, we also share responsibility to protect our interconnected space. We are more at risk th

1000 kilometers of walls built in Europe since 1990

Member States of the EU and Schengen Area have built around 1000 kilometres of walls since the 1990s to stop migration flows Barcelona/Amsterdam, 9 November. On the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall, a new report reveals that the EU and Schengen Area states have built around 1000 kilom

Support Macao in Milan!

SIGN THIS CALL WRITING TO: macao.works...@gmail.com MACAO, an autonomous center for art, culture and research is now in danger. In recent days the alt-right Salvini government decided to foster the repression against migrants and squatters with a new extremely

Just Out: Organization after Social Media by Geert Lovink and Ned Rossiter

Organization after Social Media Geert Lovink and Ned Rossiter Exploring the politics of networks through and beyond social media 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

Radical Think-Tank Theory--Interview with Ralf Homann and Manuela Unverdorben

Radical Think-Tank Theory Interview with Ralf Homann and Manuela Unverdorben By Geert Lovink How can we imagine to do radical research outside of the established academic institutions and large mainstream media? Is this possible anyway? For decades this has been my dream. At first, my 1980s

On #deletefacebook in the Netherlands

osting daily link lists to the Unlike Us list, which was founded in 2011 by me and Korinna Patelis and is still active. If you like, forward the list list, change it, add others to it. Best, Geert — Facebook Liberation Army Link List (April 12, 2018) Compiled and edited by Geert Lovink & P

Rude Awakening: Memes as Dialectical Images by Geert Lovink & Marc Tuters

Rude Awakening: Memes as Dialectical Images by Geert Lovink & Marc Tuters (This is part II of our critical meme theory. The first part was posted to nettime on February 11, 2018) Web version: https://non.copyriot.com/rude-awakening-memes-as-dialectical-images/ “It’s not that what is past c

Re: In the eye of the Cambridge Analytica storm

> From: olia lialina > Subject: Re: In the eye of the Cambridge Analytica storm > Date: 22 March 2018 5:18:07 pm GMT+1 > To: Geert Lovink > hi! > > i wanted to answer to the list, but as it seems i am blocked on nettime, so i > answer to you :) > Apropos "t

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