The conference Tulipomnania DotCom intends to develop an informed critique of the politics of electronic finance and internet economics. The aim of the conference is to raise the level of economic competence of the cultural and social sector, and simultaneously inject economic analysis with a sensitivity to on- and offline cultures, as well as a hands-on understanding of the new communication spaces.

The conference aims to set an agenda for possible models of intervention in this new domain of networked communication, and to reclaim vital public functions of the new information and communication environments.

To achieve this a dialogue has to be started between critical economic analysis, critical net discourses, and the premises of policy making, as well as the various social movements that operate in this domain. To facilitate this exchange of knowledge is a prime aim of the conference.

By bringing together critical discourse in these different domains we intend to find alternatives to deadly adapt-or-die rhetorics, as well as to dire structural inevitability (aka "There Is No Alternative") or simplifying activism.