<div dir="ltr"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)">Emőke Bada</span><br style="color:rgb(102,102,102)"><div style="text-align:left;color:rgb(102,102,102)"><a href="http://emoke.org" target="_blank">emoke.org</a><br></div></div></div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Bogers, Loes</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:l.bogers@hva.nl">l.bogers@hva.nl</a>></span><br>Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2019 at 09:12<br>Subject: Book launch Critical Makers Reader: (Un)learning Technology<br>To: Bogers, Loes <<a href="mailto:l.bogers@hva.nl">l.bogers@hva.nl</a>><br></div><br><br>



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Dear colleagues, (former) students, friends, family,
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<div>We warmly invite you to the book launch of <i>the Critical Makers Reader: (Un)Learning Technology,
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<div>The book launch will be held at Critical Making Evening #2 hosted by Waag on
<b>Thursday 21 November from 20.00-21.30</b>:</div>
<div><a href="https://waag.org/en/event/critical-making-evening-2" target="_blank">https://waag.org/en/event/critical-making-evening-2</a> </div>
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<div>Anja Groten, Wim Nijenhuis and Deanna Herst will speak about their contributions to the book, and of course it’s also your chance to get a free copy! The evening will be moderated by Lucas Evers.</div>
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<div>We hope to see you there to celebrate with us! If you cannot make it, keep an eye out for the digital versions that will be published on the INC website: <a href="https://networkcultures.org/publications" target="_blank">https://networkcultures.org/publications</a></div>
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<div>Loes Bogers, Letizia Chiappini, and the INC team</div>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Karla,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><b>The Critical Makers Reader:
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<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Karla,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Edited by Loes Bogers & Letizia Chiappini</span></div>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Karla,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Published by the Institute of Network Cultures</span></div>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Karla,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><i>A decade ago many gushed at
 the possibilities of 3D printers and other DIY tech. Today makers are increasingly shaking off their initial blind enthusiasm to numerically control everything, rediscovering an interest in sociocultural histories and futures and waking up to the environmental
 and economic implications of digital machines that transform materials. An accumulation of critique has collectively registered that no tool, service, or software is good, bad, or neutral—or even free for that matter. We’ve arrived at a crossroads, where a
 reflective pause coincides with new critical initiatives emerging across disciplines. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Karla,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><i>What was making? What is making?
 What could making become? And what about unmaking? The Critical Makers Reader features an array of practitioners and scholars who address these questions. Together, they tackle issues of technological making and its intersections with (un)learning, art and
 design, institutionalization, social critique, community organizing, collaboration, activism, urban regeneration, social inequality, and the environmental crisis.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Karla,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><i>Kat Braybrooke, Abigail Browning,
 xtine burrough, Serena Cangiano, David Cole, Critical Media Lab, Maria Dada, Sharon Ede, Lori Emerson, Gareth Foote, Bernhard Garnicnig, Krystin Gollihue, Anja Groten, Xin Gu, Graham Harwood, Deanna Herst, Garnet Hertz, KairUs, Tom Keene, Cindy Kohtala, Verena
 Kuni, Maya Livio, Benjamin Matthews, Wim Nijenhuis, Paul O'Neill, Samantha Penn, Hannah Perner-Wilson, Matt Ratto, Pip Shea, Caroline Sinders, Lucy HG Solomon, Peter Troxler, Grace Van Ness, and Eva Verhoeven.</i></span></div>
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