INTERSTITIAL podcast with Geert Lovink on Sad by Design

By Geert Lovink, October 15, 2019

Listen to the 10 minutes podcast INTERSTITIAL EP008: Sad by Design here: https://thinkbelt.org/shows/interstitial. Read the transcript of the radio interview with Geert Lovink by David Huber here: We are living in a period of real-time revolutions. Things develop very, very fast. We are all acutely aware of this. However, this is not what people experience. [...]

Impressions of ‘Space is the Place’ Installation @Droog

By Geert Lovink, October 11, 2019

Exhibition SPACE IS THE PLACE @Droog, October 9 – November 31, 2019 , Staalstraat 7A/B, Amsterdam. Open daily from 9 AM – 7 PM. From the website: “Get lost in your desires and dreams on the Future. We live in a media vortex and space is nearby or already here. An installation on our human [...]

Internetkritik-“Abschalten ist keine Lösung” Interview mit Geert Lovink

By Geert Lovink, October 10, 2019

https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/gesellschaft/netzkritik-interview-mit-dem-internetkritiker-geert-lovink-a-1289570.html Wir sind online, immer und überall. Was macht das mit uns? Der Internetpionier Geert Lovink über programmierte Traurigkeit, gewollte Facebook-Abhängigkeit – und warum er nicht wegschauen kann. Ein Interview von Jan-Paul Koopmann SPIEGEL: Herr Lovink, viel von dem, was Internetpioniere vor Jahrzehnten in der Nische durchgespielt haben, ist heute digitaler Alltag für die ganze [...]

Interview with Geert Lovink for vita.it on Sad by Design

By Geert Lovink, September 28, 2019

Interview with Geert Lovink for www.vita.it by Marco Dotti English original here. Publication in Italian here: http://www.vita.it/it/interview/2019/09/28/sad-by-design-il-nichilismo-digitale-e-il-lato-oscuro-delle-piattaform/276/ Marco Dotti: Can you explain the title of your book? Are we all sad by design? What does the ‘engineered’ dimension of sadness evoke for us? Geert Lovink: I am not selling sadness. If you’re happy, all the [...]

TRISTES POR DISEÑO – Las redes sociales como ideología

By Geert Lovink, September 18, 2019

I am proud to announce the release of the Spanish translation of my latest book Sad by Design (Pluto Press, 2019), published in Bilbao by Consonni. The book was translated by Matheus Calderón Torres in Lima/Peru who earlier approached, out of the blue, with the offer to translate of one of my interviews. A perfect [...]

German Sad by Design Edition: Digitaler Nihilismus

By Geert Lovink, September 11, 2019

The German translation of Sad by Design (Pluto Press) just came out: https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-4975-8/digitaler-nihilismus/ Geert Lovink, Digitaler Nihilismus, Thesen zur dunklen Seite der Plattformen, Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld, 2019. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tinder und Co. – all das Klicken, Scrollen, Wischen und Liken lässt uns am Ende sinnentleert zurück. Traurigkeit ist zum Designproblem geworden, die Höhen und [...]

On Recursivity and Contingency: Interview with Yuk Hui by Geert Lovink

By Geert Lovink, September 5, 2019

(Today, e-flux journal published my third interview with Berlin-based Hong Kong philosopher Yuk Hui. Here it is. For the purists among you I am making the original email interview available. E-flux did a great job editing the piece. Whatever. Here is the original. Read and enjoy, it’s heavy stuff. /Geert) In his latest book, the [...]

Post-Platform Desires: Build 1, 2, 3 New Beginnings

By Geert Lovink, September 1, 2019

The text below is written as an introduction to a week-long discussion on the empyre email list in which I participate, with the topic STAY UNFINISHED, YOURS SINCERELY, moderated by Shulea Cheang. The debate happens in conjunction with STAY UNFINISHED, the 5th edition of Stadtwerkstatt‘s 48 hour showcase extravanganza held in association with Ars Electronica [...]

Russian anthology of my critical internet theory essays

By Geert Lovink, July 28, 2019

In June 2019 Admarginem Press in Moscow published the first translation into Russian of my work, edited and translated by Dmitry Lebedev: Critical Internet Theory. Thanks to the publishing house and Dmitry and many others for the amazing book tour in June (Moscow, Kazan, Yekaterinburg, St. Petersburg)! This is the table of content 1. What’s [...]

The Hour of Cyber-Restyling-Interview with Geert Lovink for Avvenire

By Geert Lovink, June 19, 2019

Interview with Geert Lovink by Simone Paliaga for the Italian newspaper Avvenire https://www.avvenire.it/agora/pagine/manipolati-e-sfruttati-lora-del-cyberrisveglio Simone Paliaga: The English title of your book is “Sad by Design”. Why do you talk about programmed sadness and melancholy? Can you explain the reason of the word “design”? Geert Lovink: In these harsh neo-liberal times of precarity and growing inequality, [...]