net critique blog by Geert Lovink
By Gianmarco Cristofari, April 7, 2026
Interview with Paola Ricaurte Quijano The introduction of Digital Tribulations, a series of intellectual interviews on the developments of digital sovereignty in Latin America, can be read here. I first met Paola Ricaurte in Rio de Janeiro during the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) conference. Paola is a leading scholar and a founding member of [...]
By Giulia Timis, April 6, 2026
Visual Tropes and Affect Propaganda in Orbán’s Electoral Campaign There’s a video circulating online that opens with a little girl sitting by a rainy window. She asks her mom where dad is and when he will come back. The mother answers “soon”. The rain keeps pouring in the next scene, in which a man, whom [...]
By Peter Lunenfeld, April 3, 2026
Los Angeles, April 2, 2026 Dear Geert— I’ve written before about how understanding the present crisis gets harder and harder with each of these letters to European friends. And that’s simply because we are now in the moment when flooding the zone with shit has resulted in a zone that’s only shit. Flooding the zone [...]
By Gianmarco Cristofari, April 3, 2026
Interview with Mateo Merchan Duque. The introduction of Digital Tribulations, a series of intellectual interviews on the developments of digital sovereignty in Latin America, can be read here. Today’s tribulation is the first one not directly related to digital sovereignty. I wanted to investigate the most Colombian political topic: the peace process with the armed [...]
By Geert Lovink, April 2, 2026
Mediamakers in de Platformsamenleving Co-CB onderzoek uitgegeven door HvA Campus Creators publishing en INC Titel: Mediamakers in de platformsamenleving Redactie: Annamarijn Bos, Anne Dijkstra, Vera Tomassen Voorwoord: Geert Lovink Met teksten van: Sophie van Abeelen, Capucine Bandeville, Bente Borgman, Lotte Endel, Assia El Hannaoui, Oscar van Haren, Jens Hartel, Aimee Heemskerk, Chayenne van der Heidt, [...]
By Gianmarco Cristofari, March 24, 2026
Interview with Pilar Sáenz from Fundación Karisma. The introduction of Digital Tribulations, a series of intellectual interviews on the developments of digital sovereignty in Latin America, can be read here. I met Pilar over an online call from Mexico. An activist and coordinator at Fundación Karisma, she has been deeply involved in free software and [...]
By Ioana Ioancea, March 20, 2026
My guardian angel has never replied to me but my computer surely did–it has always been there for us. To it we entrust our happiness, success and sorrow, we confide our deepest secrets and we seek the answers we fear to voice elsewhere. It offers us the space we need to connect with thy neighbor [...]
By Alessandro Sbordoni, March 17, 2026
The following article is an edited transcript of a talk held in Venice and organized by Becoming Press. You can find the unedited transcript and video recording of the talk here. * For some time, I have been interested in the relationship between digital technology and how our society is structured. I would like to [...]
By Geert Lovink, March 17, 2026
Collective Performative Reading of The Glossary of Cognitive Activism by Warren Neidich March 27, 2026, 5:30pm, Brutus Space, Keileweg 10b, Rotterdam Guest readers include: Libia Castro and Olafur Olafsson, Abril Cisneros Ramirez, Ine Gevers, Hsiang-Yun Huang, Joep van Lieshout, Geert Lovink, David Maroto, and Pieter Vermeulen. The reading is part of the Autonomous exhibition in [...]
By Gianmarco Cristofari, March 16, 2026
Interview with Andres Lombana Bermudez The introduction of Digital Tribulations, a series of intellectual interviews on the developments of digital sovereignty in Latin America, can be read here. I first met Andrés while walking to the AoIR conference in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro. We struck up a conversation in Portuñol as we approached the campus; [...]
