Geert Lovink’s Books

Networks Without a Cause, Geert Lovink

By admin, January 7, 2013

About: With the vast majority of Facebook users caught in a frenzy of ‘friending’, ‘liking’ and ‘commenting’, at what point do we pause to grasp the consequences of our info-saturated lives? What compels us to engage so diligently with social networking systems? Networks Without a Cause examines our collective obsession with identity and self-management coupled [...]

Das halbwegs Soziale: Eine Kritik der Vernetzungskultur by Geert Lovink

By admin, November 24, 2012

German version of Geert Lovink, Networks Without a Cause: A critique of Social Media: Cambridge, Polity Press, 2011. ISBN: 9780745649672  Über das Buch: Während die meisten Facebook-User noch mit Freund-Werden, “Liken” und Kommentieren beschäftigt sind, ist es an der Zeit, auch die Konsequenzen unserer informationsübersättigten Lebensweise zu betrachten. Warum machen wir so fleißig bei den [...]

Zero Comments: Blogging and Critical Internet Culture

By admin, January 6, 2013

About: 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 [...]

The Art of Free Cooperation

By admin, January 6, 2013

About: 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. Activists contribute citizen journalism. New media [...]

The Principle of Notworking: Concepts in Critical Internet Culture

By admin, January 6, 2013

English pdf: https://www.hva.nl/binaries/content/assets/hva/lectorale-redes/boekjes/ol09-050224-lovink.pdf About: On February 24, 2005 Geert Lovink delivered his inaugural lecture as lector of the Institute of Networkcultures, part of the University of Applied Science of Amsterdam. In this essay he presents ongoing theoretical work, developed throughout 2004, the year he took up the position of ‘lector’ at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam. [...]

My First Recession: Critical Internet Culture in Transition

By admin, January 6, 2013

About: 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. In his discussion of the dotcom boom-and-bust cycle, Geert Lovink lays out the challenges faced by critical [...]

Uncanny Networks: Dialogues with the Virtual Intelligentsia

By admin, January 6, 2013

About: 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. For Geert Lovink, interviews are imaginative texts that can help to create global, [...]

Dark Fiber: Tracking Critical Internet Culture

By admin, January 6, 2013

About: According to media critic Geert Lovink, the Internet is being closed off by corporations and governments intent on creating a business and information environment free of dissent. Calling himself a radical media pragmatist, Lovink envisions an Internet culture that goes beyond the engineering culture that spawned it to bring humanities, user groups, social movements, [...]