Blogging and Theory in 2007

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As some of you may have noticed I took a break over Xmas with family in Sydney. Now I am back at work in Amsterdam, having plenty to report about. First of all a longish interview with me appeared (in three parts) with the German web magazine Netzeitung. It’s in German and deals with Web 2.0., like most interviews with me these days… The other news is that Eurozine has published a version in English of my essay Blogging, the Nihilist Impulse, which in 2006 came out in German and Danish translations in Lettre.

Interview with Geert Lovink on the 2010s Web by Ingrid Luquet-Gad

By Geert Lovink, April 22, 2024

Download as PDF The starting point of this interview was a pragmatic need for context: for of my PhD, I wanted to unpack particular concepts of Geert Lovink and expand on others. As a researcher with a background in art criticism, my investigation centers on the artworld of the 2010s, its tired mainstream institutions and [...]

Cloud Capital and Platform Regression – Review of Yanis Varoufakis, Techno Feudalism

By Geert Lovink, March 22, 2024

Download as PDF A meme is spreading: capitalism is dead. We’re toiling around in its carcass. Nothing appears as it seems in this zombie state of affairs. But why didn’t we notice? There’s confusion all over. Climate, Covid, Ukraine, Gaza. Is history accelerating, or, rather the opposite, stagnating, even regressing? In his latest book Techno [...]

For Maurice Nio: Unseen, Architecture Slipped Away by Lars Spuybroek

By Geert Lovink, March 18, 2024

Download as PDF Maurice Nio (1959), Dutch architect theorist, writer and artist passed away on July, 11, 2023. Last Friday night I attended the launch for his new book The Suspence of Architecture-The Necessity to Shine (published by Thousand and One Publishers in Amsterdam, order here). Maurice was still able to finish the manuscript. Many [...]