Interview with Geert Lovink by Andreu Jerez (in Spanish)

By Geert Lovink, December 7, 2019

Orginally published in El Periodico, December 6, 2019 by Andreu Jerez: https://amp.elperiodico.com/es/mas-periodico/20191206/geert-lovink-la-idea-de-facebook-como-comunidad-es-de-chiste-7763593 La crisis del ‘brexit’ y el escándalo de Cambridge Analytica en el 2016 acabaron con la imagen idílica e inocente que teníamos de las redes sociales. Desde entonces, cada vez tenemos más evidencias de la existencia de mecanismos de manipulación y de que [...]

From Historical Melancholia to Technology-Induced Sadness-Interview with Geert Lovink by Hande Tombaz

By Geert Lovink, November 29, 2019

‘SAD BY DESIGN’: Interview with Geert Lovink by architect and researcher Hande Tombaz Hande Tombaz: You define sadness as a possibility of reflection. The way you describe the term sadness largely refers to the concept of melancholy, which is a more complex emotion than sadness. However, what we are experiencing today through social media is [...]

Interview with Geert Lovink by Federica Colonna for Corriere la Lettura on Sad by Design

By Geert Lovink, November 4, 2019

This telephone interview, conducted late October 2019, only exists in Italian and appeared in the literary supplement Corriere la Lettura, November 3, 2019. Geert

1990s! Interview with Geert Lovink by Georgina Cojocaru/ARTA

By Geert Lovink, November 3, 2019

(This interview, conducted via email in July 2018, appeared in the double issue, edited by Georgina Cojocaru, on ‘Art & Digitality’ of the Romanian art magazine Arta. The text below is the original ‘extended’ version. It happens to be that I have a special relationship with Revista Arta, going back to the early 1990s when [...]

Interview with Geert Lovink by Paula Corroto on Sad by Design

By Geert Lovink, October 30, 2019

Interview with Geert Lovink for the Spanish-Mexican magazine Letras Libres by Paula Corroto, conducted for the launch of the Sad by Design translation into Spanish, TRISTES POR DISEÑO – Las redes sociales como ideología, published by Consonni. Spanish translation of the interview: https://www.letraslibres.com/espana-mexico/politica/entrevista-geert-lovink-la-cuenta-trump-en-twitter-deberia-haber-sido-bloqueada. Original English version here: Paula Corroto: You’re quoting Evgeny Mozorov: “1990s tech [...]

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 [...]