Beyond the Free Labour
During a week, two perspectives to digital economy. 1) Berlin Transmediale-festival, where I got to see and hear some of the panels in the Free Culture stream. Basically the question revolved a lot...
View Article6 Theses Concerning the Digital Economy and Creative Industries
This short text was written for the publication our Publishing MA students are doing; Click of Time: Reflections on the Digital Age, aimed at a wider audience, also as marketing material for the great...
View ArticleThe Creative Technologies Review-podcasts
One of the highlights of my pre-academia career as a freelance journalist when during a phone interview the interviewee, a female at a telecommunications company marketing department or something of...
View ArticleTiziana Terranova and JP in conversation; university cuts and the digital...
This conversation between me and Tiziana Terranova took place in early November – actually just before the first mass demonstrations by students and academic staff in the UK – an event after which we...
View ArticleThe podcasts are back – with a Paul Demarinis interview
Creative Technologies Review A podcast on technology and creativity, technology mostly misused, unintentionally artistic technology and music technology with the odd splattering of digital economies by...
View ArticleJobs, we need jobs
Just a sober reminder of some of the work that enabled Jobs to be the (media) star he was. This via Facebook.
View ArticleCritique With a Cause – on Lovink’s new book
Geert Lovink can be provocative – very provocative. This is one of the pleasures of diving into his writings and books, just like with Networks Without a Cause, the most recent one published by Polity....
View ArticleThe neonatal intensive care unit of tech
Don’t get me wrong despite my seemingly negative tone that is about to follow — this Wired-article about “tech’s premature births” is actually rather useful: it pitches the idea that media inventions...
View ArticleArchitecture’s Underbelly
One of the low points of architecture in 2013 was architect Zaha Hadid’s football stadium in Qatar. Designed for the forthcoming games of 2022, the main part of the discussion has been about whether it...
View ArticleCode and Labour
The new issue of Cultural Studies Review follows up from the 2012 Code-conference that was held in Melbourne, at Swinburne University. The event was marvelous, thanks to the organizers. And now,...
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