Posts By: Geert Lovink

Vulnerability of the Networked Generation: Interview with Geert Lovink by Lovro Japundžić

By Geert Lovink, April 15, 2019

https://www.kulturpunkt.hr/content/vulnerability-networked-generation For Kulturpunkt.hr, recorded in Zagreb on March 29, 2019 According to the classical definition, melancholy is similar to sadness, at least in its manifestation of loss of interest for the external world. But, while in the traditional sense we associate it with retreatment and introspection, in the contemporary world sadness has become an integral [...]

Today’s Exhausting Distraction: Interview with Geert Lovink by Teresa Numerico for Il Manifesto

By Geert Lovink, April 6, 2019

Interview with Geert Lovink by Teresa Numerico about the recently published Italian translation of Sad by Design (EGEA/Bocconi Editore: Nichilismo digitale, L’altra faccia della piattaformea), for the Il Manifesto newspaper, April 6, 2019. Two book launches are coming up: Rome, April 1o (John Cabot University, 6.30 PM) and Napels, April 12 (l’Orientale, 3.00 PM). TN: [...]

Interview with Ora 24/release of Nichilismo digitale

By Geert Lovink, March 25, 2019

On March 21, 2019 my new book Sad by Design, On Platform Nihilism came out, first in an Italian translation, published by EGEA/Bocconi Editore in Milan: Nichilismo digitale, L’altra faccia della piattaforme. Thanks to the editor Leo Goretti to make it happen, and to Marco Cupellaro and Giuseppe Barile for the translation. The Italian book [...]

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 [...]