Dispersed publications of 2019 by Geert Lovink

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– Geert Lovink & Donatella della Rattta, Bridging the gap between technology and progressive politics, Social media offers a collective fantasy that some call ‘direct democracy’, in: The Progressive Post, May 10, 2019, https://progressivepost.eu/focus/bridging-the-gap-between-technology-and-progressive-politics.

– Debating the East-European Soros Centre for Contemporary Arts Network–A Dialogue between Aaron Moulton and Geert Lovink, published on July 15, 2019 in Art Margins, https://artmargins.com/the-soros-center-was-a-perfect-machine-a-dialogue-between-aaron-moulton-and-geert-lovink/

– Geert Lovink and Franco Berardi, Conversation on Futurability, in: MaHKUscript. Journal of Fine Art Research, 3(1), p.1. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/mjfar.48.

– Podcast discussion @droog live, Amsterdam, June 27, 2019, with Nick Axel (e-flux architecture), https://archive.org/details/pubcastbside.

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 [...]