Geert Lovink’s Books

Just Out: Social Media Abyss, Critical Internet Culture and the Force of Negation by Geert Lovink

By Miriam Rasch, May 25, 2016

In this fifth volume of his ongoing investigations, Dutch media theorist and internet critic Geert Lovink plunges into the paradoxical condition of the new digital normal versus a lived state of emergency. There is a heightened, post-Snowden awareness; we know we are under surveillance but we click, share, rank and remix with a perverse indifference [...]

The Aesthetics and Politics of the Online Self: A Savage Journey into the Heart of Digital Cultures

By Ruben Stoffelen, December 31, 2022

      The Aesthetics and Politics of the Online Self: A Savage Journey into the Heart of Digital Cultures By Donatella Della Ratta, Geert Lovink, Teresa Numerico, Peter Sarram This volume investigates our dissonant and exuberant existences online. As social media users we know we’re under surveillance, yet we continue to click, like, love and share [...]

Geert Lovink: Extinction Internet

By Tommaso Campagna, November 24, 2022

Extinction Internet is not merely an end-of-the-world phantasy of digital technology that one day will be wiped out by an electromagnetic pulse or the cutting of cables. Rather, Extinction Internet marks the end of an era of possibilities and speculations, when adaptation is no longer an option. During the internet’s Lost Decade, we’ve been rearranging [...]

Stuck on the Platform: Reclaiming the Internet

By Geert Lovink, May 5, 2022

Stuck on the Platform by Geert Lovink We’re all trapped. No matter how hard you try to delete apps from your phone, the power of seduction draws you back. Doom scrolling is the new normal of a 24/7 online life. What happens when your home office starts to feel like a call center and you’re [...]
Between Control and Emancipation Edited by Lina Dencik, lecturer in...

Critical Perspectives on Social Media and Protest

By Vera van de Nieuwenhof, October 8, 2015

Between Control and Emancipation Edited by Lina Dencik, lecturer in the School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies at Cardiff University in the UK, and Oliver Leistert, postdoctoral researcher at the DFG Research Training Group “Automatisms” at University Paderborn, Germany. Geert Lovink has contributed a chapter in collaboration with Ned Rossiter: Network Cultures and the [...]

Reformatting Politics: Information Technology and Global Civil Society

By Ruben Stoffelen, September 21, 2006

    Reformatting Politics: Information Technology and Global Civil Society By Jodi Dean, Jon W. Anderson, Geert Lovink This book examines the ways in which new information and communication technologies (ICTs) are being used by civil society organizations (CSOs) to achieve their aims through activities and networks that cross national borders. These new ICTs (the [...]

Het Beeldenrijk

By Tommaso Campagna, April 6, 2020

  Finally online: the first book of the Adilkno collective, in Dutch (not translated), Empire of Images: Radiation Fear and Space Desire, published in 1985 in Amsterdam by Uitgeverij Raket en Lont. This singular mix of casual theory and every day narratives, closely connected to the autonomous anti-nuclear and anti-war movements of the time, is [...]

El Abismo de las Redes Sociales: Culturas Críticas de Internet y la Fuerza de la Negación

By Barbara Dubbeldam, November 3, 2019

                      ¿Quién hace la crítica de las redes? ¿Quién habla de las infraestructuras de la redes? Se pregunta Geert Lovink, uno de los teóricos del internet contemporáneos más puntuales. A diario, millones de usuarios actualizan sus timelines,  actualizan fotos,  documentan su bienestar o malestar y lo [...]

Sad by Design: On Platform Nihilsm

By Geert Lovink, July 9, 2019

Sad by Design by Geert Lovink Sadness is now a design problem. The highs and lows of melancholy are coded into social media platforms. After all the clicking, browsing, swiping and liking, all we are left with is the flat and empty aftermath of time lost to the app. Sad by Design offers a critical analysis [...]

Made in China, Designed in California, Criticised in Europe: Amsterdam Design Manifesto

By Barbara Dubbeldam, July 5, 2019

Written by Mieke Gerritzen & Geert Lovink. Download the pdf here. When everything is destined to be designed, design disappears into the everyday. We simply don’t see it anymore because it’s everywhere. This is the vanishing act of design. At this moment design registers its redundancy: our products, environments and services have been comprehensively improved. [...]