README.first is a bilingual collection of mini-essays, published in the run up to the Plokta filmfestival. We’ve asked writers, researchers, theorists, artists, programmers, and others to pick an online video that functions as a stepping stone for their thought and practice and to comment shortly on …

Wat hebben aardgasvrije wijken en leren nu met elkaar te maken? De omslag naar aardgasvrije wijken lijkt in eerste instantie vooral te gaan over organisatorische, technische en financiële vraagstukken en oplossingen. In deze reeks essays blijkt vervolgens dat er toch wat meer achter schuil gaat en wordt …

De essaybundel bestaat uit 10 essays, waarin studenten vanuit verschillende invalshoeken (ze komen uit verschillende opleidingen en jaren) hebben onderzocht wat toegang tot het recht is en hoe het zich verhoudt tot verschillende maatschappelijke ontwikkelingen. Zo kwamen de volgende onderwerpen aan bod: …

Let’s Get Physical: A Sample of INC Longforms, 2015-2020 marks the five year anniversary of the INC Longform series. Based on research both theoretical and practice-based, INC Longforms showcase original projects, reflections, and critique. The essays in this collection invite the reader to look ahead …

Ulus Baker (1960 – 2007) was a Turkish-Cypriot sociologist, philosopher, and public intellectual. He was born in Ankara, Turkey in 1960. He studied Sociology at Middle East Technical University in Ankara, where he taught as a lecturer until 2004. Baker wrote prolifically in influential Turkish journals …

Lives of Data maps the historical and emergent dynamics of big data, computing, and society in India. Data infrastructures are now more global than ever before. In much of the world, new sociotechnical possibilities of big data and artificial intelligence are unfolding under the long shadows cast by …

Deze reflectie is een onderzoek naar de rol van het genre essay in de (hedendaagse) journalistiek. Achtereenvolgens wordt gekeken naar: 1. wat zijn de kenmerken van het genre; 2. welke plek neemt het essay als genre in in de journalistieke handboeken; 3. welke veranderingen ondergaat de hedendaagse journalistiek …

Our Commons: Political Ideas for a New Europe is a collection of essays, case studies and interviews that showcase the wealth of transformative ideas that the commons have to offer. Featuring reflections on the enclosure of knowledge and the monopolisation of the digital sphere, stories about renewable …

Articles by Dutch researcher of new media, co-founder of the Institute of Network Cultures and professor at the University of Applied Sciences in Amsterdam Geert Lovink, first brought together especially for Russian readers. In the book, the author analyzes both the simplest cultural techniques - from …

Life on the Brink is an unusual volume in that it allows non-­‐academic, activist voices as well as  politicians,  environmental  studies  scholars,  and  social  scientists  to  participate  in  the  argument that concerns us all, the argument about the future of our planet and of humanity. The common …