Posts By: Geert Lovink

The Heat of Others: First Novel of INC Researcher Morgane Billuart

By Geert Lovink, May 12, 2026

Max, a young and ambitious researcher, travels to Svalbard, Norway, to speak at a conference on the ethics of mind enhancement. There, she discovers a high-tech experimental building powered by “Dual Resolve,” a system that harvests human body heat. As the conference unfolds, the warmth of bodies and the pressure of ideas begin to blur, [...]

Remembering Steve Kurtz – Evening in Amsterdam @Waag, May 7, 2026

By Geert Lovink, April 22, 2026

Remembering Steve Kurtz is an evening dedicated to exploring and honoring the life and work of Steve Kurtz, a pioneer in the fields of bioart and tactical media. As co-founder of Critical Art Ensemble (CAE), an influential collective of radical experimental artists, Kurtz was a frequent visitor to Amsterdam, where he participated in festivals such [...]

HvA onderzoek naar rol van mediamakers in de platformsamenleving

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, [...]

Collective Reading of Warren Neidich’s The Glossary of Cognitive Activism

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 [...]

Canada Theory – Geo-Political Debates at INC

By Geert Lovink, February 28, 2026

This internal INC email exchange from early February began with a posting of Max Haiven on his Substack: Is Canada’s premier Carney a warlord? Three fellow Canadians responded: Henry Warwick, Marc Tuters and David Gauthier. Canada theory has been high on the INC agenda from day one—and well before. After all, INC stands on the [...]

Bodies in the Shape of Time – Natalie Mariko in conversation with MIRA新伝統 (Raphael Leray and Honami Leray)

By Geert Lovink, February 24, 2026

Introduction to the Interview by Natalie Mariko Like many, I spend a lot of time lost in rot. I wonder how many days I have stared, almost numb, into the endless stream of other people’s memories, while scenes of train cars, café chairs, and beds blur together. It’s been at least a few weeks. Mind [...]

Utrecht Book Launch of Forty-Four Esolangs: The Art of Esoteric Code by Daniel Temkin

By Geert Lovink, January 31, 2026

In his new book, Forty-Four Esolangs (MIT Press), Daniel Temkin challenges conventional definitions of language, code, and computer, showing the potential of esolangs—or esoteric programming languages—as pure idea art. The languages in this volume ask programmers to write code in the form of prayer to the Greek gods, or as a pattern of empty folders, [...]

Capitalism, Semiotics, and the Subjectivities of the End: Interview with Alessandro Sbordoni

By Geert Lovink, September 6, 2025

By Leonardo Foletto and Rafael Bresciani for BaixaCultura In July 2025, the Italian-born, London-based Alessandro Sbordoni was in Brazil for the launch of Semiótica do Fim: Capitalismo e Apocalipse (first version published as INC  Network Notions #1: Semiotics of the End: On Capitalism and the Apocalypse), published by SobInfluencia. The book, as we’ve already commented [...]

Heather Ford on Why Critical Wikipedia Research Is More Important Than Ever

By Geert Lovink, July 10, 2025

From CPOV to the Manifesto for Wikimedia Research I was a Master’s student at UC Berkeley’s iSchool when I traveled to Bangalore for INC’s first Critical Point of View conference in January 2010. Two more CPOV conferences followed, in Amsterdam and Leipzig. Bangalore was a pivotal moment for me. I had been an activist in [...]

Join the Live Stream of Moving Kinship Europe Performance from Servigliano (Italy), April 12 & 13, 2025

By Geert Lovink, March 31, 2025

Casa Della Memoria, Servigliano, Italy, Come Closer, Listen | Vieni Più Vicino, Ascolta, April 12 & 13 @6:30pm – Join the live stream here (but register first): www.movingkinshipeurope.com. A Feminist Fusion of Performance, Participation, and Activism with a relaxed performance & installation on 12 April & a full performance & installation on 13 April. Moving [...]