Posts By: Geert Lovink

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 [...]

Pluralism in Digital Communities–Interview with Geert Lovink

By Geert Lovink, November 1, 2018

Interview for the Plural think tank (https://plural.world/) In: Pluralism in Digital Communities–September 2018 Report Interviews and Analysis Participants: Emily Bitze, Jessa Lingel, Geert Lovink, Karl Schroeder, Alexandra Stiver, Clare Sullivan, Violette Suquet Analysis by Christophe Bruchansky & Shane Saunderson Christophe Bruchansky: In your 2016 book Social Media Abyss: Critical Internet Cultures and the Force of [...]

On Paratactics, Bots and Post-Colonial Finance – A Muhabbet between Ebru Yetiskin and Geert Lovink

By Geert Lovink, September 10, 2018

Original on the ISTS website: https://stsistanbul.org/2018/08/30/on-paratactics-bots-and-post-colonial-finance-a-muhabbet-between-ebru-yetiskin-and-geert-lovink/#more-777 In 2017 Ebru Yetiskin, a member of IslanbuLab who is also an Istanbul- based sociologist and an independent curator, visited the Institute of Network Cultures in Amsterdam and met Geert Lovink, who works there as a researcher. A while later, Geert Lovink’s 2016 book Social Media Abyss came out [...]

Memes and the Reactionary Totemism of the Theft of Joy (Geert Lovink & Marc Tuters)

By Geert Lovink, August 21, 2018

“Note how they talk about animals, and are moved by them. They make a list of affects. These affects circulate and are transformed within the assemblage.” Deleuze & Guattari (This is part III of a series of essays on meme theory. Part I is called They Say That We Can’t Meme: Politics of Idea Compression. [...]

Just Out: Organization after Social Media by Geert Lovink and Ned Rossiter

By Geert Lovink, June 15, 2018

Exploring the politics of networks through and beyond social media Organized networks are an alternative to the social media logic of weak links and their secretive economy of data mining. They put an end to freestyle friends, seeking forms of empowerment beyond the brief moment of joyful networking. This speculative manual calls for nothing less [...]

The Internet is not a Cultural ‘Melting Pot’

By Geert Lovink, June 8, 2018

Rough Theses on Internet & Global Politics anno 2018 by Geert Lovink (This text is based on an email interview with Polina Kolozaridi of the Moscow-based website www.internetbeyond.net. You can find the Russian translation and original English version here). Anglo-American globalization has been challenged for decades. The liberal consensus says that There Is No Alternative [...]

Interfacing Counterculture and Digital Cultures: A Personal History, Interview with Geert Lovink by Valérie Schafer

By Geert Lovink, May 1, 2018

(original posting here: https://web90.hypotheses.org/4054) During his entire life Dutch media theorist and net activist Geert Lovink has been thinking about, and struggling with, the issue of institutionalisation of social movements and independent media. He would probably dislike the fact that he is now described as an “established figure” of media theory and net criticism… or [...]