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Interview: Social Media Discontent after Cambridge Analytica

By Geert Lovink, March 20, 2018

Interview with Geert Lovink by Christophe Bruchansky For Plural World Christophe Bruchansky: In your 2016 book Social Media Abyss: Critical Internet Cultures and the Force of Negation you draw a distinction between social media platforms and organized networks. Can you explain what the difference is? Geert Lovink: These two concepts are worlds apart. Social media is [...]

Geert Lovink-Social Media Abyss: The Turkish Translation

By Geert Lovink, February 14, 2018

I am proud to announce the publication of my first book in Turkish. The original edition of Social Media Abyss appeared in May 2016 with Polity Press, simultaneous with the Italian translation (EGEA Bocconi), which was followed by the German edition (Transcript Verlag, 2017). Chinese and Spanish translations will come out later in 2018. The [...]

They Say We Can’t Meme: Politics of Idea Compression ( Geert Lovink & Marc Tuters)

By Geert Lovink, February 11, 2018

Originally published (with illustrations) at non.copyriot.com. Spanish translation here. “I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.” Friedrich Nietzsche In his torturous 2017 book Futurability Franco Berardi states that “we should go beyond the critique [...]

The Story of my First Laptop: the Toshiba DynaBook

By Geert Lovink, January 15, 2018

During my first visit to Japan in 1990 I got acquainted with the Toshiba DynaBook. Unlike earlier laptops, this one was small, elegant and easily fitted into a backpack. A year later I was able to purchase one. This wonder of compact technology accompanied me during my travels to Berlin and Eastern Europe in the [...]

Notes on Networks and Contingency

By Geert Lovink, December 15, 2017

By Geert Lovink and Ned Rossiter Original illustrated version here: http://obieg.u-jazdowski.pl/en/numery/estetyka-kontyngencji/uwagi-o-nbsp-sieciach-i-nbsp-kontyngencji Polish translation: http://obieg.u-jazdowski.pl/numery/estetyka-kontyngencji/uwagi-o-nbsp-sieciach-i-nbsp-kontyngencji “There’s no such thing as singular devices. Totality is the truth.” Günther Anders The internet is an administrated world. This translation of the German verwaltete Welt, introduced by Max Horkheimer, opens up a spooky universe that stands in stark contrast to the [...]

NXS Interview with Geert Lovink: Defining the Synthetic Self

By Geert Lovink, December 4, 2017

Unpacking Geert Lovink’s Library, or: Defining the Synthetic Self (for NXS #2, Amsterdam, November 2017) Buy this cool paper publication here: http://nxsworld.bigcartel.com/product/nxs-issue-2-synthetic-selves In order to investigate this issue’s theme of the Synthetic Self Geert Lovink was an obvious choice to provide us with the relevant theoretical background. Indeed, Lovink, who specialises in the study of [...]

Critique of Social Media–Interview with Geert Lovink (in Russian, for Coltra)

By Geert Lovink, September 19, 2017

Original: https://www.colta.ru/articles/society/15900 Conducted via Skype by Dmitri Lebedev (August 31, 2017) Герт Ловинк: «Платформы типа Facebook — это трагический момент» Знаменитый теоретик соцсетей — о гибельной централизации платформ и о том, как нам искать спасение в локализме, замедлении и «цифровой тени» текст: Митя Лебедев 14 сентября в Екатеринбурге начнется IV Уральская индустриальная биеннале — центральное событие [...]

New Digital Practices of Decentralization–Interview with Geert Lovink

By Geert Lovink, September 19, 2017

By Carolina Farina Conducted for Roots & Routes (Research on Visual Cultures) #26 The Network is the Message: http://www.roots-routes.org/valuable-networks/. Carolina Farina: In your latest book Social Media Abyss: Critical Internet Cultures and the Force of Negation you write: “Tomorrow’s challenge will not be the internet’s omnipresence but its very invisibility.” How can we best deal with this? [...]

Philosophy of Technology in China: Second Interview with Yuk Hui

By Geert Lovink, September 4, 2017

Edited, slightly shorter version in Parrhesia Journal: http://www.parrhesiajournal.org/parrhesia27/Parrhesia27_Hui.pdf For a Philosophy of Technology in China Geert Lovink interviews Yuk Hui Soon after his first book on “digital objects”,[1] philosopher Yuk Hui published a second title, The Question Concerning Technology in China.[2] We decided to do an interview again[3] and focus on contemporary issues related to [...]

Economy and Politics of the Net: Interview with Geert Lovink

By Geert Lovink, September 4, 2017

Including intro: http://non.copyriot.com/economy-and-power-of-the-net-interview-with-geert-lovink/ By Achim Szepanski AS: Alexander Galloway speaks of ‘reticular pessimism’, a criticism of the network as the dominant model (of financial capital) to interpret reality. Galloway thinks that the network, through its dominance and ubiquity, forecloses everything that is not a network. It makes the world and its potentialities only graspable through [...]