<nettime> recent INC postings

[Geert Lovink via nettime-l <nettime-l@lists.nettime.org>]

Dear all, with less than three months to go for INC at the Polytech HvA where we were for over 22 years, the heat is up in terms of content (now in the firm hands of GenZ). The INC Exit Fest is from June 24-26 (program is partly online). Right now we finishing some last (paper/hybrid) publications. From September 1 we’ll be at zero Euro and zero staff, with no office (however, with a cleaned-up website that continues to be ours: www.networkcultures.org <http://www.networkcultures.org/>. Contact us at info@networkcultures.org <mailto:info@networkcultures.org> if you want to collaborate with INC after the European summer. We need all forms of solidarity as this postive moves into the unknown won’t be easy. Geert & INC team 

Paint Me Like One of Your Online Propaganda Girls - Visual Tropes and Affect Propaganda in Orbán’s Electoral Campaign by Giulia Timis (INC/VOID)

The Pathosformel (as in “the primitive words of passionate gesture language”) that Warburg formulated works well when compared to the social media strategies employed by different political figures <https://revistas.unav.edu/index.php/communication-and-society/article/view/40699/35094>. These “emotionally charged visual tropes <https://arthistoriography.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/becker.pdf>” underwent an interesting mutation, from being best represented by Botticelli’s “The Birth of Venus” (1486) to our modern age AI-ghiblification of Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and her Japanese counterpart, Sanae Takaichi, smiling together. 
▷https://networkcultures.org/blog/2026/04/06/paint-me-like-one-of-your-online-propaganda-girls/

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Dynamics of (Not) Being Perceived: The Grief & Relief after Leaving Social Media by INC Researcher Chloë Arkenbout (INC)

The emotional energy it took reflecting on what it means to be perceived and be visible made me feel tired, isolated and stuck. It made me feel as if I was stuck in a hyperreality where Instagram stories, group chat messages, screenshots and comments are seen as more “real” than reality itself sometimes. It made me want to break free from being frozen in the emotions that belong to digital media such as paranoia and guilt. 
So I decided to leave. Because I needed digital media to become tools again. 
▷https://networkcultures.org/thedigitalgutmensch/2026/04/02/dynamics-of-not-being-perceived-the-grief-relief-after-leaving-social-media/

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Digital Tribulations 15: Digital Decolonialism from Mexico to Latin America - Interview with Paola Ricaurte Quijano by Gianmarco Cristofari
I first met Paola Ricaurte in Rio de Janeiro during the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) conference. Paola is a leading scholar and a founding member of Tierra Común <https://www.tierracomun.net/>, a network dedicated to the decolonization of data and the struggle for technological autonomy in the Global South. In 2023, the Institute of Network Cultures published a book of the Tierra Común Network, entitled Resisting Data Colonialism – A Practical Intervention <https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/tod-50-resisting-data-colonialism-a-practical-intervention/>.

▷ https://networkcultures.org/blog/2026/04/07/digital-tribulations-15-digital-decolonialism-from-mexico-to-latin-america/



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