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The Limitations of Protocol

Internet is often praised for allowing people to speak up and publish freely, rather than opinions are suppressed by higher powers. On the one hand, everyone has the ability to start a blog and publish whatever they like. On...
By Erik van Mastrigt on 10/31/11 Comments Off on The Limitations of Protocol

Blogging and IKEA

Knowing I have the opportunity to express my feelings in a blog, makes me feel content. Yes, this may seem as the perfect outlet for my thoughts. They only need some organization. Normally I would buy boxes, at the...
By Mareline Heijman on 09/12/10 Comments Off on Blogging and IKEA

McLuhan in Annie Hall

In light of this weeks readings, here’s a clip of McLuhan’s short cameo in Annie Hall. Whenever his writing might seem to be a bit too…self-indulgent, it’s good to remember the man had a sense of humor.
By Onur Yilmaz on 09/11/10 Comments Off on McLuhan in Annie Hall

Manuel Castells: Who has the networking power?

I have placed Web 2.0 and social networking platforms as ‘media objects’ within a framework of Manuel Castells in the context of the network society. What interests me in particular is the tension Castells described, between mass communication and...
By Radmila Radojevic on 10/16/09 Comments Off on Manuel Castells: Who has the networking power?

Clouded Software or Software in the Clouds

The Cloud is all in one; storage of data, software as a service, Web 2.0, and so much more. It is the network of computers that distribute processing power, applications, and large systems among many machines (we already use...
By Jan Bajec on 10/15/09 Comments Off on Clouded Software or Software in the Clouds

Diagrams of the false

Personas is a student’s project developed in the MIT Media Lab that shows people how Internet sees them. Using a language processing, computer creates a data profile of your online identity, when entering your name. The program attempts to...
By Susana Zaragoza on 10/13/09 Comments Off on Diagrams of the false
The Potential Power of Twitter’s Search Engine

The Potential Power of Twitter’s Search Engine

Last week, I wrote about Twitter from the perspective of psychologist Barry Schwartz and what he calls the Paradox of Choice. “With so many options to choose from, people find it difficult to choose at all.”  From this perspective...
By Sarah Moore on 10/12/09 Comments Off on The Potential Power of Twitter’s Search Engine
Review: Beter Internet… Yeah Right!!

Review: Beter Internet… Yeah Right!!

This is a critical review on the book "Beter Internet" which is the fourth in a series of books on the social changes that the internet brings about. This relatively small book contains four interviews on the theme Web...
By Kai Henriquez on 09/15/08 1
Video Vortex: opening session Friday January 18

Video Vortex: opening session Friday January 18

Introduction Yesterday the workshop, this morning the start of the two-day “Video Vortex – responses to YouTube”, an international conference organized by the Institute of Network Cultures at PostCS11, Amsterdam. A good crowd fills the hall at the 11th...
By Jasper Moes on 01/19/08 8

Making the Spinplant Relevant: more from Friedrich Nietzsche

<update> See bottom of the post and the comments </ update> About a week ago there was a small-scale furor on this blog and a Nettime-NL thread surrounding the spinplant. Laura (one of the very creative members of this...
By Michael Stevenson on 10/09/07 24

Is the databody the next step towards becoming an Übermensch?

Is the Databody the next step on the evolutional stairway towards becoming Nietzsche's Übermensch? The truth is spectacular and men will be more spectacular as a divine Übermensch. But first this present creation, and half-Übermensch, has to have the...
By Bas Bisseling on 10/08/07 3
Plato’s Republic: The decline of the state and the history of the World Wide Web

Plato’s Republic: The decline of the state and the history of the World Wide Web

While reading through Plato’s conversation with Socrates in his classic writings of the Republic, I noticed an almost utopian allegory in Book VIII in which they discuss the decline of the state. The decline discussed by the ancient Greek...
By Twan Eikelenboom on 10/18/06 2
Dualism, Objectification and Gazing: A Philosophical View on Why Pro-Ana Blogs are so Succesful

Dualism, Objectification and Gazing: A Philosophical View on Why Pro-Ana Blogs are so Succesful

Why are there so many pro-ana blogs? What makes them so attractive to people who suffer from anorexia nervosa? I would like to make clear that this post is not going to answer these big questions, but I will...
By Jeff van Schie on 10/18/06 3
Walter Benjamin and journalism in the age of electronic reproduction

Walter Benjamin and journalism in the age of electronic reproduction

Structurally, the printed press is a medium that operates as a monologue, isolating producer and the reader. Feedback and interaction are extremely limited, demand elaborate procedures, and only in the rarest cases lead to corrections. Once an edition has...
By Roman Tol on 10/16/06 1
‘Imagined Community’ applied to weblogs

‘Imagined Community’ applied to weblogs

One of my favourite philosophical themes is the the notion of nation, and how nations are created. Some argue they have been around forever, but currently the academic consensus rests on the idea that the concept of nation, or...
By Pepijn Uitterhoeve on 10/15/06 31

Surveillance – From Jeremy Bentham to Michel Foucault to Gilles Deleuze to blogs

On the left you can see the prison that philosopher Jeremy Bentham designed in the 19th century. In this design the prison cells are being build in a circle around a centre in which the guard resides. The guard...
By Heleen on 10/15/06 3