Geert Lovink’s Publications

Schermafbeelding 2012 04 05 om 12.08.09 150x150 Geert Lovink’s Publications uncategorized Networks Without a Cause (2011)
by Geert Lovink.

Networks Without a Cause examines our collective obsession with identity and self-management coupled with the fragmentation and information overload endemic to contemporary online culture. This book offers a powerful message to media practitioners and theorists: let us collectively unleash our critical capacities to influence technology design and workspaces, otherwise we will disappear into the cloud.

zero 75 Geert Lovink’s Publications uncategorized

Zero Comments. Blogging and Critical Internet Culture (2007)
by Geert Lovink.

In this third volume of his studies into critical Internet culture, following the influential Dark Fiber and My First Recession, Lovink develops a ‘general theory of blogging.’ Unlike most critiques of blogging, Lovink is not focusing here on the dynamics between bloggers and the mainstream news media, but rather unpacking the ways that blogs exhibit a ‘nihilist impulse’ to empty out established meaning structures.

artof 75 Geert Lovink’s Publications uncategorized The Art of Free Cooperation (2007)
by Geert Lovink and Trebor Scholz (eds.)

This book takes an inventory of the art of collaborative practice, surveys the landscape of new, cooperation-enhancing technologies, and renders the inner workings of cooperative processes as a new model for social movements. Civic participation is on the decline, but, online, more people work together than ever before.

notwork 75 Geert Lovink’s Publications uncategorized The Principle of Notworking (2005)
by Geert Lovink

Inaugural speech at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam, february 2005, with three chapters on multitude, network and culture, the theory of free cooperation and the dawn of the organized networks.

myfirst 75 Geert Lovink’s Publications uncategorized My First Recession: Critical Internet Culture in Transition (2003)
by Geert Lovink

My First Recession starts when the party is over. This study maps the transition of critical Internet culture from the mid-to-late 1990s Internet craze to the dotcom crash, the subsequent meltdown of global financial markets, and 9/11.

uncanny 75 Geert Lovink’s Publications uncategorized Uncanny Networks: Dialogues with the Virtual Intelligentsia (2002)
by Geert Lovink

A collection of interviews with new media artists, theorists and critics from East and West-Europe, USA and Asia who reflect on their concepts and practices. It provides a critical context of ideas, networks and artworks that have shaped the past decade.

dark 75 Geert Lovink’s Publications uncategorized Dark Fiber: Tracking Critical Internet Culture (2002)
by Geert Lovink

In Dark Fiber, Lovink combines aesthetic and ethical concerns and issues of navigation and usability without ever losing sight of the cultural and economic agendas of those who control hardware, software, content, design, and delivery.