Essay on Franco Berardi & Info Psychopathology in the FAZ

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In the German newspaper FAZ (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) of Monday June 21, 2010, I got a piece on the Italian media theorist Franco Berardi and his work on the psychopathology of information overload. Here it is, in German. Early May I met ‘Bifo’ in his hometown Bologna and soon after read two of his recently translated books in English, The Soul at Work (Semiotext(e), 2009) and Precarious Rhapsody (Minor Compositions, 2009). Soon, the extended English original is going to be published, somewhere. I will let you know where.

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 [...]