The Anatomy of Zoom Fatigue by Geert Lovink

By Geert Lovink, November 21, 2020

[First published by Eurozine on November 2, 2020, you will find the original version here. The text is, in part, the result of exchanges on the nettime mailinglist in the first part of July, 2020. Thanks to all who collaborated to this ‘chorus’ essay.] “The body has been drained of its sedimented meanings through the [...]

Noise vs. Control: A Parable Against Modelling the Future by Geert Lovink & Ned Rossiter

By Geert Lovink, November 21, 2020

[Shorter German version published in Timo Daum (Hrg.), Die unsichtbare Hand des Plans, Berlin, Dietz Verlag, 2021. For more context see Ned Rossiter’s website: https://nedrossiter.org/?p=490] “People find themselves seemingly unable to create the conditions for a radical bifurcation—not the disruptive ‘radical innovation’ of the kind claimed by those startup entrepreneurs who present themsevles as ‘new [...]

Principles of Stacktivism

By Geert Lovink, November 10, 2020

(this essay was published first by tripleC in the non-peer-reviewed Reflection section of the journal here) Principles of Stacktivism by Geert Lovink “One of the last frontiers left for radical gesture is the imagination.” David Wojnarowicz Those that define internet standards shape our thinking and hold the key to our freedom of communication — no [...]

Interview: Digital Lockdown with Geert Lovink by Jess Henderson

By Geert Lovink, October 30, 2020

(published in the No Fun Mag, October 28, 2020) Jess Henderson: As I write to you in August 2020, you are on vacation in a depopulated rural area and pretty much offline for the majority of the day. The limited internet access you have there must mutate your regular relationship to being online, one I [...]

Preface of the Chinese translation of Social Media Abyss (Geert Lovink, 2016)

By Geert Lovink, October 22, 2020

I am proud to announce the publication of my first Chinese translation: Social Media Abyss from 2016, originally published in English by Polity Press, with other translations in Italian, German, Russian and Spanish. The book is published by the Institute of Network Society, which is part of the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou. I [...]

We Are Not Sick’s Theory-Music Album Sad by Design

By Geert Lovink, September 13, 2020

On Saturday night September 12, 2020, John Longwalker and Geert Lovink (‘We Are Not Sick’) launched their theory-music album Sad by Design in OT 301 in Amsterdam (info on the event here: http://ot301.nl/agenda/9908). The event was organized by Amsterdam Alternative. You can watch the performance here, including the Q&A with Geert Lovink and John Longwalker, [...]

A Conversation with Geert Lovink by Tommaso Campagna

By Geert Lovink, September 11, 2020

A Conversation with Geert Lovink by Tommaso Campagna (This interview was conducted on June 25, 2020 in the HvA main building as part of the intern report for the research master Mediastudies/University of Amsterdam. Tommaso was an intern at the Institute of Network Cultures in 2019/2020 and participated in the Making Public/Urgent Publishing research program) [...]

Yuk Hui: In Memory of Bernard Stiegler

By Geert Lovink, August 9, 2020

In Memory of Bernard How could I believe that Bernard has already left us? It is true that Bernard has left, but I don’t believe and will not believe. Since I woke up on the 7th of August and read about the death of Bernard, I listened to his voice on radio and I felt [...]

Delete Your Profile, Not People, Comment on Cancel Culture

By Geert Lovink, August 5, 2020

by Geert Lovink (official version first published on Eurozine, August 5, 2020) “The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he’s in prison.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky Nobody and nothing seems safe. “Cremated” eye shadow? Canceled. The Dalai Lama? Canceled. Israel? Canceled. Novelty Internet Rappers? Canceled, recanceled, and then [...]

Geert Lovink text archive (1999-2010) transferred to INC

By Geert Lovink, June 28, 2020

The dilemma is an old one: should one spread one’s legacy here and there in order to minimize risks to lose the information all at once or rather centralize the archives to make sure that the scattered bits and pieces do not disappear unnoticed? In my case the pendulum is swinging back. After the Bilwet/Adilkno [...]