two new texts

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I added two new texts to my blog pages, both of them in German. The first is a slightly longer, yet unedited translation of my ‘crisis in new media arts’ essay, that appeared in the latest issue of Lettre International. This text already has a considerable version history, starting as a ‘supra.doc’, A Collection of Unresolved Issues (Dec. 2002- Jan. 2003), written for a project of Clementine Deliss (and others) in San Sebastian/Basque country. It was later published online in M/C Culture as Fragments on New Media Arts and Science. The extended version will appear in my upcoming book Zero Comments.

The second text is a short ‘speed interview’ with the political website politik-digital.de about the Web 2.0 hype.

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 [...]