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, [...]

Menno Grootveld & Geert Lovink: Links na de Europese verkiezingen

By Geert Lovink, June 18, 2019

Na de Europese verkiezingen lijkt links definitief de weg kwijt. Eind mei 2019 werden in heel Europa verkiezingen voor het Europees Parlement gehouden, en in Spanje gemeenteraadsverkiezingen. De gevreesde ‘bruine golf’ van rechts-populisten in Europa onder leiding van de Italiaanse minister van Binnenlandse Zaken en vice-premier Matteo Salvini bleef uit, hoewel de rechts-populisten wel winst [...]

Just out: the English edition of the Sad by Design book

By Geert Lovink, May 15, 2019

Geert Lovink, Sad by Design, On Platform Nihilism, Pluto Press, 2019. “A scathing indictment of a technology that transforms the very notion of self into a sharing platform” Eva Illouz, author of Why Love Hurts: A Sociological Explanation “Lovink dissects our digital addictions with the dynamite power of critical theory. A savage journey into the [...]

Interview with Max Haiven: Art after Money, Money after Art

By Geert Lovink, May 11, 2019

By Geert Lovink Conducted for the 2019 Venice Bienale catalogue of the Romanian pavillion, in particular Canal Grande: The Capital Pool and the Associated Public of Dan Mihaltianu, curated by Cristian Nae. The work “functions at first sight as a wishing well. It establishes an autonomous art fund and invites the visitors to self-organize and [...]

Vulnerability of the Networked Generation: Interview with Geert Lovink by Lovro Japundžić

By Geert Lovink, April 15, 2019

https://www.kulturpunkt.hr/content/vulnerability-networked-generation For Kulturpunkt.hr, recorded in Zagreb on March 29, 2019 According to the classical definition, melancholy is similar to sadness, at least in its manifestation of loss of interest for the external world. But, while in the traditional sense we associate it with retreatment and introspection, in the contemporary world sadness has become an integral [...]

Today’s Exhausting Distraction: Interview with Geert Lovink by Teresa Numerico for Il Manifesto

By Geert Lovink, April 6, 2019

Interview with Geert Lovink by Teresa Numerico about the recently published Italian translation of Sad by Design (EGEA/Bocconi Editore: Nichilismo digitale, L’altra faccia della piattaformea), for the Il Manifesto newspaper, April 6, 2019. Two book launches are coming up: Rome, April 1o (John Cabot University, 6.30 PM) and Napels, April 12 (l’Orientale, 3.00 PM). TN: [...]

Interview with Ora 24/release of Nichilismo digitale

By Geert Lovink, March 25, 2019

On March 21, 2019 my new book Sad by Design, On Platform Nihilism came out, first in an Italian translation, published by EGEA/Bocconi Editore in Milan: Nichilismo digitale, L’altra faccia della piattaforme. Thanks to the editor Leo Goretti to make it happen, and to Marco Cupellaro and Giuseppe Barile for the translation. The Italian book [...]

VideoVortex XII in Malta: Call for Lectures/Theory Presentations

By Geert Lovink, February 14, 2019

Conference: September 27-28, 2019 Please submit to: submissions@vv12.org Deadline for lectures/theory contributions: March 15, 2019. Please also look at our website where you can read the general call: http://vv12.org VideoVortex, an artistic network concerned with the aesthetics and politics of online video, will gather again in Malta for a two-day conference in late September 2019. [...]

Sad by Design (the essay)

By Geert Lovink, January 20, 2019

(first published online by Eurozine, January 10, 2019) ‘Solitary tears are not wasted.’ René Char – ‘I dreamt about autocorrect last night.’ Darcie Wilder – ‘The personal is impersonal.’ Mark Fisher – ‘Swipe left and move on.’ Motivational speaker – ‘I’m easy but too busy for you.’ T-shirt – ‘Why don’t you just meet me [...]

À propos de l’idéologie des réseaux sociaux–Par Geert Lovink

By Geert Lovink, January 14, 2019

(This is a French translation of my essay On the Social Media Ideology, which was published in September 2016 in E-flux Journal #75. The translation was made for the May 2016 Ars Industrialis conference in St. Denis, where I first delivered the text) L’éradication du social : « Nous ne nous connaissons pas nous-mêmes – et pour [...]