Geert Lovink – founding director of the Institute of Network Cultures – returns to Berlin for #dnl36. A fierce critic of digital capitalism, he exposes the emotional and political toll of today’s platform society. Author of Platform Brutality, Sad by Design, and Zero Comments, Lovink asks: what does collective resistance look like when the internet becomes brutal?
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#dnl36 #DigitalCultures #PlatformBrutality #TechCriticism #GeertLovink #SurveillanceCapitalism

Simulation isn’t just about escapist fantasies like The Matrix or Baudrillard’s hyperreality—it’s a technological process shaping our daily lives.

In the workshop SIMULATION: PRODUCTION AND REPRODUCTION, we’ll be joined by Inge Hinterwaldner (@KIT_Karlsruhe), Selena Savic (@jazoza), Orit Halpern (@tudresden), filmmaker Christina Zimmermann for interdisciplinary perspectives on simulation’s role today.

#ArtHistory #MediaStudies #DigitalCultures #MediaArchaeology #Workshop #Luzern #Academia #AI

Working on the train allows me to get a glimpse into the working style of other people. Today I've sat next to two students. The first (who was possibly a #PhD student) was, like me, working on a laptop. But they also had their phone on the table and, every few minutes (if not seconds), it would light up with a notification about a message and they would immediately stop working and read the message (and more rarely answer). The second (younger) is taking digital notes from lecture slides on a tablet. It's quite a small screen and it's split horizontally into the slides (left) and the notes (right), but the top left corner of the slides is obscured by a video of a TV series that they are watching whilst revising. #DigitalCultures are fascinating! #TrainTravel