Interview with Christopher Kelty: On the Culture of Free Software

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A few weeks ago I read Christopher Kelty’s book on free software. I have just finished an email interview with the writer who I met twice, in 2001, when he was doing his field work for this study, at Wizard of OS 2 in Berlin, and a free software conference in Cambridge (UK), at least, so he told me. Here it is. I have posted in my pages category that will soon pop up again in right bar of this blog. The list of articles that I posted since early 2006 had grown so long that Anne Helmond, who renoved our INC blogs and website, had taken it away. But now there is no place for longer essay anymore. Is this a bug of feature of WordPress? Perhaps I am just misusing the short and snappy blog technology for the wrong purposes… What is the place of essays and articles in a blog culture that more and more turns into an aphormismic shooting of Twitter messages to each other?

What’s Social Networking Today?

By Geert Lovink, November 3, 2024

Download as PDF (This is my contribution to From Net, City, World to Cloud, Market, Sea – Metaphors of the Internet, edited by Zentrum für Netzkunst (Tereza Havlíková, Julia Kochanek and Anneliese Ostertag). The book is published by Distanz Verlag in Berlin, more information here). Awareness about the the productive link between metaphors and computer [...]

The Missing Free Software in the Principles of Perma-Hybridity

By Giuseppe Aceto, August 25, 2024

Download as PDF Geert Lovink’s Principles of Perma-Hybridity is packed-full with concepts I want to explore to a deeper level despite already resonating with my understanding and experience. However, I felt alternatives to platforms were missing. Self-managed federated social media deserve a mention as a practical and functioning example of reaction to the algorithmic management [...]

Principles of Perma-Hybridity

By Geert Lovink, August 24, 2024

Download as PDF (written for the NoSchoolNevers publication The Internet of Dead Things) “The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of monsters appear.” Antonio Gramsci “The real power of a neganthropic and anti-anthropic institution comes from its energetic [...]