Boeklancering Platform Brutality
- Join us at OT301 for the official book launch of Platform Brutality
- Get yourself a copy!
What: Book launch Platform Brutality
When: Thursday 13 November, 5.30-8
Where: OT301, Overtoom 301, Amsterdam
Organized by: Valiz, INC (Institute of Network Cultures) en OT301
Entry: Free
Language: English
Programme
The programme begins with a conversation between the author and Stefania Milan (UvA Mediastudies). This will be followed by a presentation by Marissa Memelink from SetUp in Utrecht about their Facebook Museum. Next, we will see the V.I.B.E. video by Caitlin van Bommel, Giulia Timis (INC), Elena Zaghis & August Kaasa Sundgaard (INC), previously shown at Impakt and Ars Electronica. The book presentation will conclude with a conversation between Geert Lovink and three of his UvA MA students that recently took the elective course Art and Network Cultures: Vitaliya Mitali, Gianmaria Avellino and Louai Mroueh.
Look at the book here
The internet has become an integral part of all human activities. Its toxic aspects have fully permeated our personal, social and political lives, with people using it to attack others, normalise violence, spread fake news and make propaganda for extrme-right causes, to name just a few. This brutal turn ultimately affects all. The central thesis is that social media no longer just distracts—it wounds. And yet, we stay.
Technological violence is essentially remote, invisible and indirect. Exclusion, which many do not immediately notice, happens deep inside the code and network architecture. The answer will not be pacification or regulation but the dismantling of the platform principle itself.
Platform Brutality not just offers critical analyses but also dives into alternatives. Topics range from the violent turn of the internet and techno-feudalism debates, to loneliness on social media, radical data critique, mythologies that surround the smart phone, dreaming in the computer age, offline romanticism to question how to leave the platforms, bring back social networks and design a new balance between analogue and digital.