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July Newsletter


Dear all, as we prepare for our summer break and plan the forthcoming period of the INC, we'd like to share some of our recent projects and publications with our mailing list. As you may have already heard, in one year INC will be decoupling from the Hogeschool van Amsterdam (HvA), continuing independently after July 2026. For the sake of convenience, we've labeled the post transition organization INC 2.0. There's a lot of (exciting) challenges which we'll be tackling in light of this transition: we'll be finishing up current series and starting new ones, developing new formats, events, networks and collaborations.


We'll also be working on archiving 22 years of the INC website. And in the coming months we’ll produce the last INC Reader and the last title of the Theory on Demand series.

We're looking forward to new beginnings, and will be focusing on hybrid and IRL collaborations and events. And we're hoping to have established a new physical space and office around mid 2026. Either way, in typical INC fashion, we'll celebrate this transition with a two day event (including a party, of course) that will take place in late-June, 2026. We hope to see everyone there and keep you posted!

If you have any comments, questions, proposals, ideas, or suggestions on how you want to be involved, feel free to reach out to us at info@networkcultures.org.


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Exploring Expanded Publishing Event Report



Now that the dust has settled from the fourth edition of the INC Expanded Publishing Fest on June 20, and we'd like to invite everyone to check out the Expanded Publishing reader and the event report. The final book was entirely developed and printed using Etherport and is available to order and read here. The event report and stream archive can be found here. We'd also like to thank all the partners as well as everyone who attended and made the Publishing Fest as good as it was!

OUT NOW: .expub | Exploring Expanded Publishing



This book is the outcome of the two-year research project .expub | Exploring Expanded Publishing, initiated and supported by the Creative Europe grant. The project brought together four institutions and publishing initiatives from across Europe: Institute of Network Cultures (Amsterdam), Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art (Ljubljana), NERO Editions (Rome), and Echo Chamber (Brussels).

The first section includes contributions by: Sepp Eckenhaussen, Geert Lovink, Ezequiel Soriano, Annette Gilbert, Jordi Viader Guerrero, and Ilan Manouach.

The second section documents a series of conversations held at NERO Editions in Rome, from July 2–4, 2024. Consortium members — Lorenzo Micheli Gigotti, Marcela Okretič, Janez Fakin Janša, Ilan Manouach, Tommaso Campagna, Marta Ceccarelli, and Carolina Valente Pinto — interviewed:

Clusterduck, Silvio Lorusso, Thomas Spies, Irene de Craen, Geoff Cox, Gijs de Heij, Yancey Strickler, Kenneth Goldsmith, and Dušan Barok.

We thank them for their time and generosity in sharing their thoughts and ideas.

Read online and order a free copy here.

OUT NOW: Post-Communist Grounds. In Search of the Commons



Post-Communist Grounds. In Search of the Commons’ is a collection of  interventions seek to explore and activate practices of commoning in post-communism in a range of genres and media forms, with a specific interest in developing experimental aesthetic practices.

Edited by: Neda Genova

Second Editor: Salome Berdzenishvili

Copy Editing: Callum Bradley

Book Cover Art: Miha Brebenel

Contributors: Sasha Anikina, Aleksei Borisionok, Noah Brehmer, Miha Brebenel, Aleksandra Fila, Nino Gavasheli, Hanna Grześkiewicz, ​Mariya P. Ivancheva, Rastko Novaković, Olia Sosnovskaya, ​Mary N. Taylor, and ​Yasemin Keskintepe.

Available to download and order here.

New Publications

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The Impenetrable Male: Giga Chad as Digital Body Armor

by Merthe Voorhoeve
INC Longform

Read HERE
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An-Aesthetic Autonomy: Rebuilding the Art World After Its Neoliberal Degradation

by Sebastian Olma
INC Longform

Read HERE
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Gooning by Design

By August Kaasa Sundgaard & Ruben Stoffelen
INC Longform

Read HERE

From INC Blog

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Nurturing the Internet Grove – Review of Marta Ceccarelli’s Internet’s Dark Forests
by Lea Sande

Read HERE
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Senescence Cosplaying as Vigor: Klein Bottles and the Optics of Fear
by Peter Lunenfeld

Read HERE
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Striking in Solidarity: Sam Hamer on How to Turn a Lethargic Union into a Moral Force
by Noah Pellikaan

Read HERE
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The Brutalist: Architecture as Work (Pejorative)
by Silvio Lorusso

Read HERE
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Necropolitics of the Image
by Lesia Kulchynska

Read HERE