Posts By: Geert Lovink

VideoVortex XII in Malta: Call for Lectures/Theory Presentations

By Geert Lovink, February 14, 2019

Conference: September 27-28, 2019 Please submit to: submissions@vv12.org Deadline for lectures/theory contributions: March 15, 2019. Please also look at our website where you can read the general call: http://vv12.org VideoVortex, an artistic network concerned with the aesthetics and politics of online video, will gather again in Malta for a two-day conference in late September 2019. [...]

Sad by Design (the essay)

By Geert Lovink, January 20, 2019

(first published online by Eurozine, January 10, 2019) ‘Solitary tears are not wasted.’ René Char – ‘I dreamt about autocorrect last night.’ Darcie Wilder – ‘The personal is impersonal.’ Mark Fisher  – ‘Swipe left and move on.’ Motivational speaker  – ‘I’m easy but too busy for you.’ T-shirt – ‘Why don’t you just meet me [...]

À propos de l’idéologie des réseaux sociaux–Par Geert Lovink

By Geert Lovink, January 14, 2019

(This is a French translation of my essay On the Social Media Ideology, which was published in September 2016 in E-flux Journal #75. The translation was made for the May 2016 Ars Industrialis conference in St. Denis, where I first delivered the text) L’éradication du social : « Nous ne nous connaissons pas nous-mêmes – et pour [...]

Let’ talk about 2011–the year of protests and uprisings

By Geert Lovink, January 10, 2019

My life has been defined by the issue how the organization of social movements relates to the ‘media question’. And so, this remarkable year, defined by the term Facebook revolution, can be read as a real test. We all know that the year 2011 didn’t end well. There is a real question here in terms [...]

Pictures from the Amsterdam ASCII internet cafe squat, 1999

By Geert Lovink, December 29, 2018

During the late 1990 I toured the world with a series of lectures and class on critical internet cultures in Europe. I am digitizing the slides I took of hackerspaces/camps in Amsterdam, starting with ASCII. the Amsterdam Subversive Center for Information Interchange was a communication laboratory that was based in numerous locations. The first incarnation [...]

Sad by Design: Podcast Dialogue between Douglas Rushkoff (Team Human) and Geert Lovink

By Geert Lovink, December 17, 2018

From: https://teamhuman.fm/episodes/ep-114-geert-lovink-on-sad-by-design/ (published on December 12, 2018 by Douglas Rushkoff). Playing for Team Human today: media activist and scholar Geert Lovink. Geert will be helping us see how an understanding of the political economy is not enough. We have to reacquaint ourselves with the experiential layer of our humanity and even reclaim our sadness to [...]

Out Now: Sad by Design Essay in German (Lettre International 123)

By Geert Lovink, December 13, 2018

An excerpt of the German translation of the Sad by Design essay you can find here. The book appears in English, Italian, German and Spanish in the first half of 2019. Geert Lovink durchstreift die Ruinen digitaler Luftschlösser. Eine Programmierte Traurigkeit durchzieht die Atmosphäre der sozialen Medien. Durch Tweets, Likes und Bots ist man optimal [...]

Bridging the Gap between Technology and Progressive Politics in Europe

By Geert Lovink, December 4, 2018

The text below is a proposal, a strategic contribution and we are curious what you make of the ideas and questions we raise. For sure there are more topics and angles that could be added. Do you see any possibility for funding such an effort to come together? Should this be a festival, a translocal [...]

Precarious by Design–My Preface for Silvio Lorusso’s Entreprecariat

By Geert Lovink, December 1, 2018

I am proud to present the preface I wrote for Silvio Lorusso’s book, which came out in November 2018, in Italian, published by Krisis Publishing in Brescia, Italy. Here is the link if you want to know more about this title and order it. This is critical design theory at its best–Made in Europe. The [...]

Radiotheory and the future of FM–Interview mit Geert Lovink (in German)

By Geert Lovink, November 26, 2018

„Heutzutage ist vor allem das Fehlen der sozialen Einbildungskraft das Problem” Interview mit dem Medientheoretiker und Netzkritiker Geert Lovink von Ivan Sterzinger Dieses Interview wurde für die Fabrikzeitung geführt, einem alternativen Zürcher Kultur-, Gesellschafts- und Politikmagazin das monatlich erscheint. Das Thema dieser Ausgabe dreht sich um das Radio politischer Apparat, als kultureller Identitätsfaktor und wandlungsfähiges Medium. Die Ausgabe entsteht [...]