We are excited to share all of the episodes of Thinking Face Emoji, a podcast miniseries by The Hmm, in collaboration with the Institute of Network Cultures, and supported by the Creative Industries Fund NL. In this inaugural episode of Thinking Face Emoji, Margarita Osipian and Sjef van Beers from The Hmm, are joined by [...]| Institute of Network Cultures
Infidels claim that the rule in the Library is not ‘sense;’ but ‘non-sense;’ and that ‘rationality’ (even humble, pure coherence) is an almost miraculous exception. They speak, I know, of ‘the feverish Library, whose random volumes constantly threaten to transmogrify into others, so that they affirm all things, deny all things, and confound and confuse [...]| Institute of Network Cultures
There’s something very appealing about a car crash. Morally speaking, that’s a very shitty sentence, but damn, David Cronenberg made a whole movie about it. Outside of rather unfortunate timing i| networkcultures.org
Los Angeles, September 6, 2025 Dear Geert — I’ve been writing “The Present Crisis” letters not only to explain what the America looks like from the inside to those outside its borders, but also to sketch new taxonomies for US citizens to have a mental map for how to move forward. Yet, as the attacks [...]| Institute of Network Cultures
By Leonardo Foletto and Rafael Bresciani for BaixaCulturaIn July 2025, the Italian-born, London-based Alessandro Sbordoni was in Brazil for the launch of Semiótica do Fim: Capitalismo e Apocalips| networkcultures.org
A platform is telling researchers how to study its neutrality and defining what and where researchers should look to evaluate it. If it was Google or Facebook we might be shocked. But it's from Wikipe| networkcultures.org
I’m 13 and my best friend from primary school asks me if I have an account on Tumblr. I do, but I’m not sure if I want her to know. She broke the unspoken rule, you never share your blog with IRL friends, it’s taboo to talk about it. I hesitantly agree, and we exchange [...]| Institute of Network Cultures
From CPOV to the Manifesto for Wikimedia Research I was a Master’s student at UC Berkeley’s iSchool when I traveled to Bangalore for INC’s first Critical Point of View conference in January 2010. Two more CPOV conferences followed, in Amsterdam and Leipzig. Bangalore was a pivotal moment for me. I had been an activist in [...]| Institute of Network Cultures
July 7, 2025 Dear Geert— These missives trying to explain what’s happening in the New World to friends in the Old World become more and more like describing the contours of a Klein bottle, the higher dimensional version of the better known Möbius strip. Like the Möbius strip, the Klein bottle, which can only exist [...]| Institute of Network Cultures
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. This volume seeks to re-orient discussions about the commons away from prevailing frames of analyses, which [...]| Institute of Network Cultures
.expub | Exploring Expanded Publishing Edited by Tommaso Campagna, Marta Ceccarelli, Carolina Valente Pinto .expub | exploring expanded publishing is the final publication of a two-year collaborative project exploring the infrastructures, politics, and networks of contemporary publishing. How can publishing infrastructures become more sustainable, modular, and open? What formats could fully embrace the long-standing promises [...]| Institute of Network Cultures
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AI_Anxiety Produced by Jordi Viader Guerrero, Dmitry Muravyov, Erica Gargaglione, Aarón Moreno Inglés, Mariana Fernández Mora, and Orestis Kollyris With contributions by Dmitry Muravyov, Jordi Viader Guerrero, Ali Alkhatib, Marcela Suárez, Aarón Moreno Inglés, Eke Rebergen, Erica Gargaglione, Mariana Fernández Mora, Orestis Kollyris, Daniel Leix Palumbo, Alexandra Barancová, Jef Ausloos, Oksana Dorofeeva, Rasa Bocyte, Nic [...]| Institute of Network Cultures
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Call for Contributions – Imagining the Internet(s): A Collaborative Glossary Deadline: 15 September 2025| Submit: a 100 word pitch and a bibliography What concepts help us study how the internet has been imagined—historically, culturally, or politically? From ‘cyberspace’ to ‘network ideology’, from ‘technotopia’ to ‘vernacular web’, critical terms have long shaped how we understand digital [...]| Institute of Network Cultures
