Posts By: geert

Interview with Oliver Vodeb (Memefest) on the Addictive Power of Memes Today

By geert, June 22, 2017

Like waking up from a bad dream, I asked myself how the ‘Final Solution of the Meme Question’ could run its course. Memes are haunting us. Everyone talks about them. The survival of our planet seems to depend on our critical understanding of meme design. There’s currently an interesting thread on the nettime mailinglist about [...]

New essay: Overcoming Internet Disillusionment

By geert, June 19, 2017

E-flux Journal published an essay of me that I wrote in the first months of the Trump administration. The text reflects that the general condition (if there is every such a thing) in critical internet culture. Here it is: http://www.e-flux.com/journal/83/141287/overcoming-internet-disillusionment-on-the-principles-of-meme-design/ A fragment: Our disenchantment with the internet is a fact. Yet again, enlightenment does not [...]

Organized Networks: A Model for Autonomous Organization

By geert, June 9, 2017

Written for the Rotterdam Autonomous Fabric Initiative by Geert Lovink In today’s neo-liberal ‘creative industries’ landscape, autonomy needs to be redefined. The term has multiple meanings, which, potentially, creates confusion. Let’s distinguish between the use of the term autonomy in the contemporary arts context, as opposed to its use in (radical left) politics, social movements [...]

HvA student contacteerde al zijn ‘Facebook frienden’–interview met Gino Bronkhorst

By geert, June 9, 2017

Voor zijn BA afstudeerproject contacteerde MIC student Gino Bronkhorst al zijn 738 Facebook ‘vrienden’ en deed daar verslag van in een uitgebreide, professioneel gemaakte YouTube video. Hij was hier in totaal 11 dagen mee bezig en schreef ze allemaal individueel aan met de persoonlijke vraag hoe het met ze ging.  Hij was verbaast over de [...]

Just Out: A FIELD GUIDE TO THE SNOWDEN FILES

By geert, June 6, 2017

Media, Arts, Archives 2013-2017 Ed. Magdalena Taube and Krystian Woznicki 168 pages, including images 21 × 29.7 cm, paperback, English Diamondpaper 2017 | ISBN 978-3-9817925-1-5 | 35 € A FIELD GUIDE TO THE SNOWDEN FILES is the first book to critically engage with artists responding to the NSA-files leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden. Considering the [...]

German translation of Social Media Abyss: Im Bann der Plattformen

By geert, June 3, 2017

http://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-3368-9/im-bann-der-plattformen Geert Lovink: Im Bann der Plattformen Die nächste Runde der Netzkritik (übersetzt aus dem Englischen von Andreas Kallfelz) Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld, Juni 2017. Die digitale Welt im Post-Snowden-Zeitalter: Wir wissen, dass wir unter Überwachung stehen, aber machen weiter, als ob es nichts zu bedeuten hätte. Obwohl Unternehmen wie Facebook, Google und Amazon unsere Privatsphäre [...]

Response to Evan Williams–Trump and the Social Media Question

By geert, May 23, 2017

Email Interview on June 22, 2017 with Geert Lovink by Davide Nitrosi, Italian journalist with a group of daily papers such as Bologna’s Resto del Carlino, Florence’s Nazione and Milan’s Giorno. Davide Nitrosi: Once Twitter was viewed as a tool of liberation. During the Arab Spring uprisings in the Middle East and the Iran riots [...]

Future of Social Media Q&A with Christina Capellari (Graz)

By geert, May 12, 2017

Research questions for Geert Lovink for the Master Thesis “Impacts of the Constant Digitalization on Society” by Christina Capellari (University of Applied Sciences FH Joanneum, Graz/Austria). Christina Capellari: Do you consider social networks to be social or anti-social? Geert Lovink: The starting point there would be my 2012 essay What’s the Social in Social Media? [...]

Tech Anthropology Today: Interview with Ramesh Srinivasan

By geert, May 11, 2017

“How can we embrace the realities of communities too-often relegated to the margins?” In Whose Global Village? (NYUPress, 2017) UCLA scholar Ramesh Srinivasan travels the globe in order to find out much techno-autonomy there’s still left. Now that more than half of the world has moved to urban centres, the rural population is literary a [...]

Techno-Reue in der Hyperrealität (in: mondediplomatique.de)

By geert, April 7, 2017

https://monde-diplomatique.de/artikel/!5390843 Die Ernüchterung über das Internet ist eine Tatsache: Aufklärung bringt uns nicht Befreiung, sondern Depression. Die einst märchenhafte  Aura, die unsere geliebten Apps, Blogs und so­zia­len Medien umgab, hat sich aufgelöst. Swipen, Teilen und Liken fühlt sich an wie seelenlose Routine. Wir haben zwar schon angefangen, uns zu entfreunden und zu entfolgen (unfollow), aber [...]