INC Newsletter May 2022

In our May newsletter, we present to you the new book by Geert Lovink and a new zine: PrtScn: The Lazy Art of Screenshot. We also highlight new posts regarding the Ukrainian war. Scroll down for more...

Just Out: Stuck on the Platform - Reclaiming the Internet by Geert Lovink

INC is proud to present to you Geert Lovink's new book: Stuck on the Platform, Reclaiming the Internet. The book is published in five languages, English (Valiz), Spanish (Holobionte Ediciones), followed in August by German (Transcript Verlag), then Italian (Nero) and Turkish (İletişim). The original English edition, published by Valiz (Amsterdam) can be ordered now and found in bookstores. More info here. The global book launch is in Bologna on May 6, 2022, 6pm, via Pietralata 58.

The blurb:
We’re all trapped. No matter how hard you try to delete apps from your phone, the power of seduction draws you back. Doom scrolling is the new normal of a 24/7 online life. What happens when your home office starts to feel like a call center and you’re too fried to log out of Facebook? We’re addicted to large-scale platforms, unable to return to the frivolous age of decentralized networks. How do we make sense of the rising disaffection with the platform condition? Read more

New Zine - PrtScn: The Lazy Art of Screenshot

The zine PrtScn: The Lazy Art of Screenshot, edited by Dunja Nešović, gathered more than 30 authors in an aim to collectively explore the omnipresent, yet somehow often overlooked, screenshot as a contemporary digital image and practice that fuses the human and machinic boundaries of authorship and vision. As the screenshot travels through networks and is stored away safely in the depths of our hard drives or cloud depositories, a collection of written and visual works featured in PrtScn unpacks these digital movements, freezes and many points (and pixels) in between.

Read it or order a free copy here!

Open Call - Amplifying Voices from Inside the Ukrainian War Zone

The Institute of Network Cultures is in solidarity with those affected by the Russian invasion in Ukraine. We are open to any form of reflections, tactical tools, notes, witness material and reports from or connected to the war zone. INC wants to amplify the artistic, activist, academic and critical voices of all those influenced by the Russian attacks. Please send an email to info@networkcultures.org specifying if you wish to share your identity or not, we aim to provide an open and safe environment to share content anonymously.

Dispatches from the Place of Imminence, part 9 By Svitlana Matviyenko

April 13 – May 8, 2022

If you do not know Russian or if you just focus on the voice’s timbre and the rhythm of this brief conversation, it feels comforting. You’d immediately sense this young woman and man are attracted to one another. They definitely have a bond and, possibly,... continue reading

Vasyl Cherepanyn on the Aftermath of the Revolutions By Angela Gurtsieva

The first edition of the Kyiv Biennial named The School of Kyiv took place in 2015. By adapting, or rather reappropriating the well-known and highly commercial format of the international exhibition, Vasyl Cherepanyn, the head of the Biennial, sought to reflect the Maidan revolution in a thematic format of education... continue reading

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NEW PUBLICATIONS

Below the Market: On the Artist Pension Trust and the Future of Self-Organized Redistribution

by SEPP ECKENHAUSSEN

Artists and other cultural workers have tried to create stable, long-term collective income systems for themselves forever. In 2004, an American tech entrepreneur launched one of the most ambitious redistribution schemes up to date, the Artist Pension Trust (APT). The idea was to give artists not just long-term income, but even a pension—a luxury highly uncommon among the professional group. Practically, the trust pools artworks of participating artists and sells them over time to provide the artists with a stable,.... continue reading

The Internet is The Recipe: Sexual and Psychological Education in Digital Spheres

by MORGANE BILLUART

It feels as if I have been bleeding for 10 days. Sometimes, I remember the ways in which I used to try to keep on behaving as if my menstrual cycles were not affecting me. Specifically, the act of performing intimate relationships while I was bleeding. I feel terrible for the young woman who thought that her sexual non-accessibility would cost her to lose what she loved. Today, I would tell her that losing happens anyway, whether or not you impose matters on your body. continue reading

INC Books

You can order a free paper copy of our latest publications:

PrtScn: The Lazy Art of Screenshot
VideoVortex Reader III
Let's Get Physical. A Sample of INC Longforms.

Order here

FROM THE INC BLOG

Reflexions on Navigating (Dis)information

By Maria van der Togt
https://networkcultures.org/blog/2022/05/03/reflexions-on-navigating-disinformation/

De culture of giving in de beeldende kunst 10 jaar na de bezuinigingen

By Sepp Eckenhaussen
https://networkcultures.org/blog/2022/04/30/de-staat-van-mecenaat/

Roots and Consequences

By Svitlana Matviyenko
https://networkcultures.org/blog/2022/04/25/roots-and-consequences/

Petition in Help of Sasha Skochilenko

By Maria van der Togt
https://networkcultures.org/blog/2022/04/25/petition-in-help-of-sasha-skochilenko/

Clapback Fury Art Installation by Saeeda Saeed

By Chloë Arkenbout
https://networkcultures.org/viralimageculture/2022/04/25/clapback-fury-art-installation-by-saeeda-saeed/

OUT NOW: DungeonCoin Black Paper & video essay

By Inte Gloerich
https://networkcultures.org/moneylab/2022/04/20/out-now-dungeoncoin-black-paper-video-essay/

Looking For an Intern From Ukraine for Tactical Media Room

By Chloë Arkenbout
https://networkcultures.org/blog/2022/04/19/looking-an-intern-from-ukraine-for-tactical-media-room/

The Precipice – Ukraine’s Inter-White War Is Just the Beginning

By Franco "Bifo" Berardi
https://networkcultures.org/blog/2022/04/15/the-precipice/

Mark Deuze in Conversation with Ukrainian Journalists

By Maria van der Togt
https://networkcultures.org/blog/2022/04/14/mark-deuze-in-conversation-with-ukrainian-journalists/

Open Call: Lab voor Online Kritiek

By Laurence Scherz
https://networkcultures.org/blog/2022/04/14/digitale-driedaagse-lab-rondom-online-kritiek/

Dispatches from the Place of Imminence, part 4

By Svitlana Matviyenko
https://networkcultures.org/blog/2022/03/10/dispatches-from-the-place-of-imminence-by-svitlana-matviyenko-part-4/

Hybride Cultuur, NFTs en Basisinkomen

By Sepp Eckenhaussen
https://networkcultures.org/goinghybrid/2022/04/11/geert-lovink-sepp-eckenhaussen-in-gesprek-met-esther-van-rosmalen-roelina-aukema-van-witte-rook/

Dispatches from the Place of Imminence, part 5

By Svitlana Matviyenko
https://networkcultures.org/blog/2022/03/12/dispatches-from-the-place-of-imminence-by-svitlana-matviyenko-part-5/

Proposition on Peak Data

By Geert Lovink
https://networkcultures.org/geert/2022/04/07/proposition-on-peak-data/

The Ukraine War and the Costs of the Metaverse by PJ Gamez Cersosimo

By Geert Lovink
https://networkcultures.org/blog/2022/03/17/the-ukraine-war-and-the-costs-of-the-metavere-by-pj-gamez-cersosimo/

A Poem about the ‘Rise of the Machines’ 1/2

By Maisa Imamovic
https://networkcultures.org/livingindustry/a-poem-about-the-rise-of-the-machines-1-2/

she’s a lying ass hoe in the age of information

By Georgica Jane Pettus
https://networkcultures.org/prtscn/2022/03/16/shes-a-lying-ass-hoe-in-the-age-of-information/

1974

By Matthew Swarts
https://networkcultures.org/prtscn/2022/03/16/1974/

Web Choreographies & Other Stories

By Joana Chicau
https://networkcultures.org/prtscn/2022/03/16/web-choroegraphies-other-stories/

The Ruling Class Has an Idea

By F.C. Zuke
https://networkcultures.org/prtscn/2022/03/15/the-ruling-class-has-an-idea/

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