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Making Public identity by Loes Claessens

Making Public

How can independent publishers manage speed, quality, and positioning to better respond to contemporary urgencies? Making Public was a two-year-long research project led by the Institute of Network Cultures in collaboration with 1001 Publishers, Amateur Cities, Amsterdam University Press, ArtEZ University of the Arts, Hackers & Designers, Mind Design, Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, […]
Article: Wishful Thinking

Social media faces

Today there is a social network for everything. There is one for sharing lol cat memes, another for checking out your friends’ party photos and one for posting latest CV updates. Sometimes, we put on our serious face for a skype interview and other times we publicly rant about a delayed flight using an angry […]
Article: Critical Imagination
Feature Image: Jon Rawlinson, Coffee Bay, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa.

Bringing the Jungle to the City

Brett Scott writes about the city — its dynamics full of ambiguity and interfaces that connect and disconnect us from the larger context and from each other. I once lived in Coffee Bay, a 260 person village on the rural Wild Coast of South Africa. It had a horizon so vast you could almost glimpse the curvature of the […]
Publication
Here and Now? Explorations in Urgent Publishing cover

Here and Now? Explorations in Urgent Publishing

Urgent publishing pertains both to timeliness and relevance. What strategies are available to publishers in the cultural and research domains to conceive, produce, and position their contents in an urgent way? Revolving around the key notions of relations, trust, and remediation Here and Now? Explorations in Urgent Publishing presents methods and prototypes that counter the […]
Article: The Unmasters

No happy endings

Lea Schönfelder designs what she calls games for adults. They are meant to motivate her players to reflect on the paradoxes of contemporary life, their ethical choices and politics of the everyday life. CA: You have an artistic background but you are currently involved in diverse activities around games; can you briefly explain your work? […]
Article: Wishful Thinking
CrapTag

Crap Tag

When everyone is humblebragging about that amazing holiday, that great party, that awesome dinner and that dreamlike wedding; what is left for those stuck behind their screen to publish?

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