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.

Cloud Capital and Platform Regression – Review of Yanis Varoufakis, Techno Feudalism

By Geert Lovink, March 22, 2024

Download as PDF A meme is spreading: capitalism is dead. We’re toiling around in its carcass. Nothing appears as it seems in this zombie state of affairs. But why didn’t we notice? There’s confusion all over. Climate, Covid, Ukraine, Gaza. Is history accelerating, or, rather the opposite, stagnating, even regressing? In his latest book Techno [...]

For Maurice Nio: Unseen, Architecture Slipped Away by Lars Spuybroek

By Geert Lovink, March 18, 2024

Download as PDF Maurice Nio (1959), Dutch architect theorist, writer and artist passed away on July, 11, 2023. Last Friday night I attended the launch for his new book The Suspence of Architecture-The Necessity to Shine (published by Thousand and One Publishers in Amsterdam, order here). Maurice was still able to finish the manuscript. Many [...]

Extinction Internet: Italian and Portuguese Translations with Bonus Song

By Geert Lovink, March 11, 2024

Download as PDF Extinction Internet, the song, read by Geert Lovink, music by Gleb Dovzhuk @UKRAiNATV, recorded in Krakow, October 2023: There is a video version, made by David Herzog, you can watch it here. — Italian translation, published by NOT/Nero in Rome: https://not.neroeditions.com/extinction-internet/ Internet sta accelerando i problemi del mondo ed è ormai destinata [...]