Interview with Geert Lovink on Social Media Blues (for art.art)

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, January 13, 2020

Original here: https://art.art/blog/2020-the-year-mindful-digital-consumption-will-finally-trend-interview-with-media-theorist-geert-lovink/. The interview was done via Skype. By Daria Kravchuk and Maria Efimova (art.art) You are known for your work on the negative psychological effects of Internet addiction,…

Social Media Abyss (2016), out now in Spanish Translation (e-book)

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, January 12, 2020

http://editorial.centroculturadigital.mx/libro/el-abismo-de-las-redes-sociales-culturas-criticas-de-internet-y-la-fuerza-de-la-negacion I am proud to present the Spanish translation of my book Social Media Abyss (Polity Press, 2016): El abismo de las redes sociales, Culturas críticas de internet y la…

My body, my traitor: essay in 10TAL

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Miriam Rasch, January 10, 2020

Last year Swedish magazine 10TAL published an essay of mine about data mining, the body, and self-knowledge. Now, the English translation has been published too! Read the opening below or…

Column – Take root among the stars: If Octavia Butler wrote design fiction

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Inte Gloerich, January 9, 2020

Authors: Gabriele Ferri, Inte Gloerich "The Butler Timeline (BT) is a parallel universe where renowned speculative fiction author Octavia E. Butler engaged in a critical dialogue with researchers in human-computer…

Organizing Content for a Modular Digital Publication

In Making Public, by Kimmy Spreeuwenberg, January 6, 2020

Written by Pia Pol Introduction Making a digital modular publication is never easy. Modular publishing has its own set of requirements and challenges. Modularity on the backend of projects is…

MoneyLab #8

In MoneyLab, by Inte Gloerich, December 20, 2019

When: March 24, 2020 - March 25, 2020

Where: Kino Šiška, Ljubljana, Slovenia

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Artificial Intelligence or: How I Ended Up on the Adobe Blog

In ENTREPRECARIAT, by Silvio Lorusso, December 17, 2019

  Some time ago, I was asked to answer some questions on automation and creative work for AIGA Eye on Design. I’m quite fond of this magazine, as it is…

The Oxymoron of the Academic Zine

In Making Public, by Silvio Lorusso, December 10, 2019

Chez Foucault zine (1978), prepared by Simeon Wade. Can there be such a thing as an “academic zine”? The very expression sounds like an oxymoron: whereas the academic qualifier came…

ML#7: Payments and the Platforms: Monetization of the Social

In MoneyLab, by Feline Koelemij, December 6, 2019

Session 3 Lana Swarts argues that if national currency represents liberal democracy, and Bitcoin represents some combination of techno-libertarianism and anarcho-capitalism, then Libra represents Silicon Valley feudalism. Andrea Fumagalli historicizes the liberalization of…

MoneyLab #7: Two Highlights

In ENTREPRECARIAT, by Silvio Lorusso, November 19, 2019

Last week I attended the MoneyLab, now at its seventh iteration and dedicated to “feminist economics, social payments, corporate crime and the ‘blokechain’”. Some years have passed since I took part…