Web Design in the Age of AI – Interview with Maisa Imamović

By Geert Lovink, March 4, 2026

At the Launch of Maisa in Webland, Detouring UX Destinies (Set Margins’, 2025) By Geert Lovink “What does ‘user-friendly’ mean if online behaviours like stalking, teasing, and ghosting — once considered peripheral — are now central to survival, care, and belonging?” This comes from the blurb of the second book of INC researcher and LA-based [...]

Wikipedia, Paid Editors and AI – A Letter from Michael Mandiberg

By Geert Lovink, February 10, 2026

Dear Geert, Thanks for sending me your post on the talk page of the “Geert Lovink” Wikipedia article about the paid editors who have given you a shake down. Wild! A bit of context, two hot takes, and a cool calm question: Context: I have been less engaged with Wikipedia since I stepped down from [...]

Interview with Geert Lovink about Platform Brutality

By Geert Lovink, January 21, 2026

By Enrico de Angelis, conducted via email on November 15, 2025, first published on January 20, 2026 by Untold Magazine here. Platform Butality (Valiz, Amsterdam, 2025) is the latest book by Dutch theorist and critic of digital cultures Geert Lovink. It covers the post-COVID period, characterized by wars (the invasion of Ukraine, the genocide in [...]

Amsterdam Book Launch of Maisa in Webland-Detouring UX Destinies

By Geert Lovink, December 20, 2025

20/12/2025 @ 20:00 - 22:00 - What does ‘user-friendly’ website mean if, on it, online behaviors like stalking, teasing, and ghosting — once considered peripheral — are now central to survival, care, and belonging? How to thrive without becoming an “Interdisciplinary Unicorn”: the state’s most beloved user-citizen fluent in multiple registers of production, optimization, and self-branding? How in this beautiful world [...]

Second Interview with German Media Theorist Annekathrin Kohout

By Geert Lovink, November 26, 2025

On Annekathrin Kohout’s two recent publications about the hyper-reactive and social media’s take-over of the art world “Art that generates klicks. Careers that depend on the number of followers. Critics who exchange memes instead of reviews. Museum directors who shut up, in fear of shitstorms. Welcome to the Brave New Art World.” This is how [...]

Save the Date: INC Exit Fest

By Geert Lovink, June 24, 2026

24/06/2026 - 26/06/2026 @ All Day - This is the announcement of the two+ day conference plus party to celebrate the departure of our 22 year-old centre from the HvA polytech to become an autonomous centre/NGO/orgnet/cultural organization. The move was instigated by the (forced) retirement at 67 on September 1, 2026, of its founder, Geert Lovink. Instead of running the (real) risk [...]

Amsterdam Book Launch of Geert Lovink’s Platform Brutality

By Geert Lovink, November 13, 2025

13/11/2025 @ 17:30 - 19:00 - When: Thursday 13 November, 5.30-8 Where: OT301/Ventilator, Overtoom 301, Amsterdam Organized by: Valiz, Institute of Network Cultures and OT301 Entry: Free Language: English Look at the book here The program begins with a conversation between the author and Stefania Milan (UvA Mediastudies). This will be followed by a presentation by Marissa Memelink from SETUP in Utrecht about their Facebook [...]

Contribution to the Design Debate 2025

By Geert Lovink, October 26, 2025

(This short statement was written for the Next Nature/Design Debate 2025, that took place during Dutch Design Week, on October 25, 2025 in Evoluon, Eindhoven. Geert Lovink in debate with Paul Hekkert about the thesis: “When machines create, there is nothing left for designers.” The event was framed like this: “Welcome to a world where [...]

On Internet Aesthetics, Art Practice, Grief and Death – Interview with Geert Lovink by Raquel Luaces

By Geert Lovink, October 8, 2025

Raquel Luaces is a PhD student in the Department of Image and Design, Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona. From September-December 2025 she is a guest researcher at INC. Her supervisor is Montse Morcate, whose work focuses on photographic representations of illness, grief and death (not unlike the work of Tamara Kneese). [...]

Book Presentation of Geert Lovink’s Platform Brutality @V2 in Rotterdam

By Geert Lovink, October 10, 2025

10/10/2025 @ 17:30 - 19:00 - With panelists Miriam Rasch, Arie Altena & Marissa Memelink Technologies of Solidarity is a three-day program in collaboration with the Engage festival.