Dear INC Community,
As many of you already know, INC has undergone significant restructuring: we have no funding, no office space, and are no longer part of an educational institution. We currently exist in the form of an independent research and publishing collective that loosely connects a distributed network of people. While this is a new phase in the life of INC, underscored by precarity and insecurity, we nonetheless approach critical theory, forward-thinking research, activism, and experimental publishing with the same spirit we had over the past two decades. If anything, we feel a renewed sense of urgency to continue dedicating our time and energy to these pursuits, especially in the face of platform-brutality and an increasingly hostile cultural landscape.
During this transformative period, we’ve been quite overwhelmed; both with people who continue to want to work with us and with the support we’ve received. We’d like to extend our gratitude to everyone who has contributed to this thus far, without you there wouldn’t be an INC. In the past months, we’ve continued publishing critical internet theory on our website, both in short- and longform formats. We’re also still working on publishing physical books, albeit at a slower pace. We continue to depend on your support, both financially and in terms of readership, contributions, and ideas.
We also formalized the core team into a legal entity with all necessary credentials to partake in grant applications and funded projects with consortia. It goes without saying that we can continue to contribute our expertise, network, and legacy to collaborations with other organizations.
We’ve built up a solid foundation of members who provide a periodic financial contribution that keeps the website up-and-running. We still need more members in order to continue paying subscriptions, compensating labor, and organizing events. Please consider becoming a member through the link below. If regular financial contributions are not an option, single donations are also more than welcome. Any support is deeply appreciated.
Under the current conditions, we are no longer able to freely produce and distribute books, to our great disappointment. That being said, we can still produce books with available funding, we have spent years establishing series like the Theory on Demand, Network Notion, and INC Readers, all of which we aspire to continue. If you are interested in working with us on one of these series, you can always reach out to us.
For now, the INC blog is run by the core team, consisting of a group of volunteers that are willing to discuss, edit, design and upload the content. The maintenance is taken care of for now but remains a collective worry as the website was hacked recently (who’s not?). Luckily we’re in good hands.
Membership costs 4 euros per month and is paid quarterly. Contributions are collected through automatic bank transfers of 12 euros, initiated four times a year: on 1 January, 1 April, 1 July, and 1 October. We’re excited to offer memberships with payment options both within and outside the EU, and we look forward to building our community with you!
Click HERE if you live within the EU and would like to register as a member.
Click HERE if you live outside of the EU and would like to register as a member.
If you would prefer to send us a one-off donation, this is our bank information for manual payments:
Vereniging voor Netwerkcultuur
NL29 INGB 0120 1290 51
(BIC/SWIFT: INGBNL2A)
Thanks for always sticking with us <33
The INC Team
