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Institute of Network Cultures (INC)
The Institute of Network Cultures (INC) analyzes and shapes the terrain of network cultures through events, publications, and online dialogue. Our projects evolve around urgent publishing, alternative revenue models, critical design and making, digital counter culture and much more.
The INC was founded in 2004 by Geert Lovink, following his appointment with the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. A key focus is the establishment of sustainable research networks. Emerging critical topics are identified and shaped in a practical sense. Interdisciplinary in character, the INC brings together researchers, artists, activists, programmers, designers, and students and teachers.
Articles
Giving a big tech boss the job of cutting US government spending unleashed an onslaught of hacking and dehumanizing tactics. Now that the obliteration of institutional data – linked to losses of jobs, USAID projects and lives – has been normalized, where does that leave digitization’s legitimacy and America’s once significant soft power?
When disassociation and apathy hit rock bottom, it’s common to reach for online distraction. Or is it the other way round? Digital fatalism labels interests and involvement as copes. Could denial and lost time be recouped through transparent technological structures and self-organization?
Russia’s war in Ukraine is being fought not only on a physical frontline but also on a virtual battleground. When Putin’s military forces unleashed full-scale attacks, Kremlin-sponsored participatory propaganda simultaneously hit a new level. Investigations monitoring pro-Russia social media channels reveal disinformation patterns with broad reach.
Measures such as ‘ethical AI’ and ‘good data’ will not bring about social justice, end racial capitalism or forestall climate disaster. How to channel discontent and counter-hegemony into an actual transfer of power in the late platform age?