Following the conference Fear and Loathing of the Online Self and the publication of Culture of the Selfie: Self-Representation in Contemporary Visual Culture in May 2017, this episode of INC’s Zero Infinite podcast zooms in on the online self and selfies, with Ana Peraica, Wendy Chun and Rebecca Stein. They discuss algorithmic identity, the importance of the background in selfies and the phenomenon of the ‘drelfie’.

In the studio: Inte Gloerich, Leonieke van Dipten and Miriam Rasch

Miriam Rasch and Geert Lovink discuss the politics of the database with Kenneth Werbin and Nikos Voyiatzis, zooming in on the power of listing technologies and the need to crack open the list.

Resources:

Kenneth Werbin, The List Serves: Population Control and Power, Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2017 (free download)

Nikos Voyiatzis, ‘The Effect of the List’, INC Longform, 6 November 2015, https://networkcultures.org/longform/2015/11/06/the-effect-of-the-list

Although digital technologies promised a renaissance in the publishing industries, publishers still struggle with digital innovations and try to hold on to traditional workflows, production, form and business models. How can we open-up this top-down mode of communication? In this episode we discuss the future of (digital) publishing through interviews with Janneke Adema, Michael Dieter, Morehshin Allahyari and Daniel Rourke. How to approach the act of publishing (digital) in the postdigital age? What happens when we approach the book as an apparatus and what does that mean for the book as we know it? What does is mean for the notion of the author and the reader when we perform the book differently?

In the studio: Miriam Rasch, Leonieke van Dipten

Contributors: Janneke Adema, Michael Dieter, Daniel Rourke, Moreshin Allahyari.

Publisher: Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, March 2017.

Resources:

Morehshin Allahyari and Daniel Rourke, The 3D Additivist Cookbook (2016), Institute of Network Cultures

Janneke Adema and Gary Hall, Posthumanities: The Dark Side of “The Dark Side of the Digital”(2016), Disrupting the Humanities: Towards Posthumanities

Alessandro Ludovico, Post-Digital Print: The Mutation Of Publishing Since 1894 (2012), Onomatopee

What does it mean to be precarious, and who self-identifies as part of the precariat? Is it a political position? And if so, how can precariats start to organize themselves? In this first episode of the Zero Infinite podcast we discuss precarity, anti-austerity and work through interviews with Alex Foti, Baruch Gottlieb and Henry Warwick. How did the precariat arise, and who exactly is part of the precariat? The second half of the episode is a homage to the work of the late Mark Fisher. We listen to audio clips from his talk at the INC event MyCreativity in 2014, in which he analyzed the nature of neoliberalism and its consequences for individual wellbeing. What influence does a social system have on mental health, and how can this responsibility become clear?

In the studio: Miriam Rasch, Max Dovey, Inte Gloerich

Contributors: Leonieke van Dipten, Alex Foti, Baruch Gottlieb, Henry Warwick, Mark Fisher, Ania Molenda and Cristina Ampatzidou

Publisher: Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, Februari 2017.

Resources

Alex Foti, Anarchy in the EU (2009), Agenzia X

Dmytri Kleiner, Universal Basic Income is a Neoliberal Plot to Make You Poorer (2016), Furtherfield

Baruch Gottlieb and Dmytri Kleiner: Telekommunisten

Henry Warwick’s website

Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism (2009), Zero Books

Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life (2014), Zero Books

Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi and Erik Empson, Precarious Rhapsody (2009), Minor Compositions

Paul Cedarström and Peter Flemming, Dead Man Working (2012), Zero Books

Oliver James, The Selfish Capitalist (2008), Vermilion

Silvio Lorusso’s blog Welcome to the Entreprecariat