Jenseits programmierter Traurigkeit, Erklärung zu Hanau

By Geert Lovink, March 6, 2020

Von Geert Lovink Vorgetragen bei der Eröffnung der Digikonferenz der Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung im Mousonturm in Frankfurt am Main, 5. März 2020. Am allerwichtigsten ist das Motto: „Ihnen zuhören, Ihre Stimmen zählen!“. Am wichtigsten ist das, was die Angehörigen der Opfer und ihr Umfeld fordern, wollen und nicht wollen. Wir sollten zuhören, vor allem [...]

Propositions on the Organizational Form by Geert Lovink & Ned Rossiter

By Geert Lovink, March 4, 2020

This essay was written in response, and published as an afterword, to three texts that deal with organization theory, written by Reinhold Martin, Timon Beyes and Lisa Conrad. They were brought together in a Meson Press/University of Minnesota Press booklet entitled Organize (2019). You can download the pdf for free here: https://meson.press/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/978-3-95796-151-8-Organize.pdf. From the book [...]

Geert Lovink: Requiem for the Network

By Geert Lovink, January 28, 2020

(This essay was written in August 2019 for the INC/Transmediale co-publication The Eternal Network: The Ends and Becomings of Network Culture that came out on January 28, 2020 at the opening of the Berlin Transmediale festival. You can read and download the publication here. The essay was slightly shortened; below you will find the original [...]

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

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, on the so-called «digital sadness» among the younger generation. What research is it based on? Geert Lovink: I’m not a psychologist and I don’t work [...]

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

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 fuerza de la negación, published by the Centro de Culturas Digital in Mexico City. Thanks to Paz Sastre who played a crucial role in making [...]

Dispersed publications of 2019 by Geert Lovink

By Geert Lovink, January 10, 2020

– Geert Lovink & Donatella della Rattta, Bridging the gap between technology and progressive politics, Social media offers a collective fantasy that some call ‘direct democracy’, in: The Progressive Post, May 10, 2019, https://progressivepost.eu/focus/bridging-the-gap-between-technology-and-progressive-politics. – Debating the East-European Soros Centre for Contemporary Arts Network–A Dialogue between Aaron Moulton and Geert Lovink, published on July 15, [...]

Interview with Geert Lovink by Susana Picos for Librújula Magazine

By Geert Lovink, January 10, 2020

Original English email exchange with Geert Lovink by Susana Picos for Librújula Magazine Spanish version: http://librujula.com/actualidad/2625-internet-esta-roto-otras-redes-sociales-son-posibles Susana Picos: Is there a risk that what we experience as ‘social’ will be limited to ‘social media’? Geert Lovink: We are what we share. This is our consensual reality. We’re no longer be able to distinguish between real [...]

Open Letter of Dutch Vice-Chancellors: Digitisation Threatens our University

By Geert Lovink, January 9, 2020

Original Dutch version (published 22nd December, 2019): https://www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opinie/digitalisering-bedreigt-onze-universiteit-het-is-tijd-om-een-grens-te-trekken Open letter, signed by most vice-chancellors of Dutch universities, calling for a halt of commercial platforms used by Dutch public universities: Digitisation threatens our university. It’s time to draw a line Digitisation and privatisation in higher education go hand in hand. Dependence on (American) technology companies is [...]

Tribute to ‘General Intellect’ Benedetto Vecchi

By Geert Lovink, January 7, 2020

With great sadness the news reached us today (via Patrice Riemens) of the death of the Italian ‘general intellect’ writer Benedetto Vecchi. He was responsible for the cultural section of the Italian dialy Il Manifesto. Vecchi was involved in Euronomade and the author of a number of books on internet culture–a topic that my generation [...]

Notes on the Networked Psyche–Exploring Online Hyper-Sensibilities

By Geert Lovink, January 6, 2020

Essay by Geert Lovink, first published on Eurozine: https://www.eurozine.com/notes-on-the-networked-psyche/. “Don’t hope, cope.” Tomi Ungerer—“Just forgot that life is pain and then remembered again.” Tweet—“Truth is like poetry, and most people fucking hate poetry.” Lotte Lentes— “I don’t need you, I have wifi.” Addie Wagenknecht—“Quitting is a strength, not a weakness.” Ingeborg Bachmann—“Trigger warnings trigger me.” [...]