“I work here, but I am cool”: Interview with Alan Liu

A couple of days ago I finished a long and fascinating email interview with Alan Liu, author of The Laws of Cool. The interview first ran on the nettime mailinglist, a ten year old habit of mine. The image was provided by INC associate and Piet Zwart Institute student Nancy Mauro Flude. Thanks, Nancy! I met Alan Liu for the first time at UC Santa Barbara in the Iraqi invasion spring 2003 when I did a residency at his English department. I will be there again, early April for the Digital Transitions conference.

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 [...]