Review of Steve McQueen’s Occupied City: Amsterdam Holocaust Database Cinema

By Geert Lovink, December 4, 2023

The topic of documenting vanished places has occupied me for decades. What is this urge to record disappearance? It can be such a desperate mission. Why do we film absence? We want to document but there is nothing to be seen. In 1984, at age 25, I tried the same—and failed miserably. Together with a [...]

Smart Phone Mythologies–On Dasha Ilina’s Advice Well Taken

By Geert Lovink, November 29, 2023

Dasha Ilina’s video work Advice Well Taken: Folk Tales of Digital Savation uses the ‘techlore’ concept to find out what ‘urban legends’ are in the age of smartphones. You can watch the ‘director’s cut’ of the video installation here. You can also have a look at a selection of the catalogue here. The 2023 Impakt [...]

Extinction Internet-Interview with Geert Lovink by Carlos Scolari

By Geert Lovink, November 28, 2023

(This email interview was conducted in July 2023 by Carlos Scolari for the Spanish edition of the Extinction Internet essay and primarily deals with my 2022 book Stuck on the Platform) Carlos Scolari: At the beginning, US cyberculture was strongly connected to Californian alternative movements. A few days ago, while walking through Amsterdam together, you [...]

Networks, Platforms, Digital Commons: Interview with Geert Lovink

By Geert Lovink, November 20, 2023

Conducted for issue 2 of The Reservoir (Brooklyn, 2023), theme: Communion, distributed by Autonomedia. By Max Moorhead Geert Lovink is a media theorist, net critic, and activist, who has been writing about, and experimenting with, decentralized online communal life since the 1980s. His latest books, Stuck on the Platform: Reclaiming the Internet (2022) and Sad [...]

Optimist by Nature, Pessimist by Design-Interview with Geert Lovink by Nikita Lin

By Geert Lovink, November 14, 2023

Writing is both thinking and acting. Through writing, we explore and reflect upon the meaningful coherence of words and actions. This conversation between Geert Lovink and Nikita Lin discusses a constructive view of the social network in technologized cultures. It explores the tactics, aesthetic and political, that could help us not only get through breakdowns [...]

Interview with German Media Theorist Vera Tollmann on View from Above

By Geert Lovink, October 11, 2023

In Sicht von oben, ‘Powers of Ten’ und Bildpolitiken der Vertikalität (Spector Books, Leipzig, 2022) German media theorist and curator Vera Tollmann analyses the power aspects of the technical view from above. The context here is not so much the first manned flight with a balloon in 1783 in Paris but the iconic 1968/77 short [...]

Interview with German Media Theorist Annekathrin Kohout about her Book Nerds, K-pop and Cuteness

By Geert Lovink, April 24, 2023

Leipzig-based German media theorist Annekatherin Kohout has written a ‚cultural studies’ history of the nerd figure. Nerds, Eine Popkulturgeschichte was published in 2022 by C.H. Beck in Munich. I was drawn to this study as I’ve been surrounded by nerds, geeks and programmers that have been building and maintaining my dear medium, the internet, over [...]

Turkish Translation: İnternetimizi Geri Almanın Yolu-Platformdan Kaçış

By Geert Lovink, April 17, 2023

(After the German, Italian and Spanish, there is now the Turkish translation of Stuck on the Platform, published by İletişim Yayınları in Istanbul, translated by Memet Ratip) https://iletisim.com.tr/kitap/internetimizi-geri-almanin-yolu/10379 İnternetimizi Geri Almanın YoluPlatformdan Kaçış Geert Lovink order here: https://pandora.com.tr/kitap/internetimizi-geri-almanin-yolu-platformdan-kacis/855194 Uzun yıllardır ağ kültürü ve medya hakkında önemli yayınlar yapan Geert Lovink, İnternetimizi Geri Almanın Yolu: Platformdan [...]

Spanish translation of Stuck on the Platform with Preface by César Rendueles

By Geert Lovink, March 24, 2023

https://www.bellaterra.coop/es/libros/atascados-en-la-plataforma I am proud to announce the Spanish translation of Stuck on the Platform, translated by Matheus Calderón Torres and published by Bellaterra Edicions in Barcelona. I will present the book on June 8, 2023, at CCCB, in dialogue with Joana Moll. More details on this and other related events soon. The Spanish edition has [...]

Interview with Geert Lovink by Teresa Numerico, for Il Manifesto (full version)

By Geert Lovink, March 23, 2023

(This is an email interview, conducted by Teresa Numerico on March 18, 2023, for the Italian daily Il Manifesto, that took place in the context of two book launches of the Italian translation of my book Stuck on the Platform (Le paludi della Piattaforma), published by Nero in Rome., early 2023. A short version of [...]