We would like to invite you all for the booklaunch of Geert Lovink & Ned Rossiter, Organization after Social Media (Minor Compositions, 2018) Spui25, Amsterdam, Monday September 17, 2018, 5.00-6.30 PM The discussion will be chaired by Thomas Poell (UvA, Mediastudies), with responses by Lonneke van der Velden and activists from various political initiatives, such [...]

How to Run a Blockchain on a Deserted Island with Pen and Paper https://hackernoon.com/how-to-run-a-blockchain-on-a-deserted-island-with-pen-and-paper-899949ec555b Better Living through Bitcoin https://www.eurozine.com/better-living-bitcoins/ Elsden, C., Manohar, A., Briggs, J., Harding, M., Speed, C., & Vines, J. (2018). Making Sense of Blockchain Applications: A Typology for HCI. https://chriselsden.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/elsden-making-sense-of-blockchain-applications.pdf How Noise Matters to Finance (both via Patricia de Vries) https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/how-noise-matters-to-finance/ Narrating [...]

Download as PDF “Note how they talk about animals, and are moved by them. They make a list of affects. These affects circulate and are transformed within the assemblage.” Deleuze & Guattari (This is part III of a series of essays on meme theory. Part I is called They Say That We Can’t Meme: Politics [...]

This essay appeared in Rhizomes. by Patricia de Vries   I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual — Virginia Woolf Prelude On a warm summer day, somewhere in the early 1980s in a forest in British Columbia, Jiggs accidentally fell into a pit of crap. After realizing he was stuck, [...]

Sei mesi di astinenza da Facebook. Nel senso che per sei mesi non ho pubblicato nulla, se non in maniera per così dire omeopatica, ovvero attraverso la pagina che gestisco (i cui follower si contano sulle dita e il cui unico commentatore è un mio amico d’infanzia). A dire il vero avevo già sfrondato radicalmente Read the rest

Between 10 March and 7 April of 2018, the Crypto Design exhibition traveled to NeMe gallery in Limassol, Cyprus. Here are some of the pictures of the show: Patricia de Vries gave a presentation at the opening of the exhibition: And a video of the show is available here: New Imaginaries for Crypto Design from [...]