Sinan Refik Akgün & Ebru Yetişkin: Interview with Geert Lovink (for Art Unlimited Magazine)

By Geert Lovink, January 10, 2024

(This is an email interview from late 2023, conducted for the Turkish Art Unlimited magazine. In the printed version there is a QR code that leads to the sound registration of my talk in November at Akbank Sanat and the following discussion: https://www.unlimitedrag.com/post/stuck-on-the-platform. I was there for the launch of the Turkish translation of Stuck [...]

Copium Compendium: How Do You Cope in this Digital Age of Disaster?

By Geert Lovink, January 9, 2024

(Eurozine published an edited version of my new essay on copium here. How do you cope with the wars, climate crisis, and misery all over? Below you can find my original version. In line with the INC experiments called ‘expanded publishing’, the text comes with a song, Das Copium Lied, recorded and mixed at the [...]

Book Launch of Semiotics of the End by Alessandro Sbordoni

By Geert Lovink, January 13, 2024

13/01/2024 @ 16:00 - 18:00 - Time: Saturday January 13, 2024, 4pm. Location: Fort van Sjakoo, Jodenbreestraat 24,1011 NK Amsterdam Boekpresentatie 13 januari: Alessandro Sbordoni over het einde van het kapitalisme. Start: 16:00, boekpresentatie met discussie, muziek en wat te drinken. De boekpresentatie is in het Engels. “It is amidst yawns, more often than whimpers and cries, that the world ends.” – [...]

Organizing Occupy Wall Street: Interview with Organizer Marisa Holmes

By Geert Lovink, December 18, 2023

Marisa Holmes is an organizer and educator from Brooklyn, New York. Her book Organizing Occupy Wall Street (Palgrave, 2023) is part personal testimony, memoir and critical analysis of this epic social movement and its immediate aftermath. She also made a documentary with the OWS Media Working Group called All Day All Week – An Occupy [...]

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 [...]