Tech Anthropology Today: Interview with Ramesh Srinivasan

By Geert Lovink, May 11, 2017

“How can we embrace the realities of communities too-often relegated to the margins?” In Whose Global Village? (NYUPress, 2017) UCLA scholar Ramesh Srinivasan travels the globe in order to find out much techno-autonomy there’s still left. Now that more than half of the world has moved to urban centres, the rural population is literary a [...]

Techno-Reue in der Hyperrealität (in: mondediplomatique.de)

By Geert Lovink, April 7, 2017

https://monde-diplomatique.de/artikel/!5390843 Die Ernüchterung über das Internet ist eine Tatsache: Aufklärung bringt uns nicht Befreiung, sondern Depression. Die einst märchenhafte Aura, die unsere geliebten Apps, Blogs und sozialen Medien umgab, hat sich aufgelöst. Swipen, Teilen und Liken fühlt sich an wie seelenlose Routine. Wir haben zwar schon angefangen, uns zu entfreunden und zu entfolgen (unfollow), aber [...]

„Es geht ums Ganze, den Weltgeist!“ Interview über die Zukunft des Radioaktivismus

By Geert Lovink, March 19, 2017

„Es geht ums Ganze, den Weltgeist!“ — Interview mit dem Netzkritiker Geert Lovink über die Zukunft des Radioaktivismus Von Martina Backes (iz3w) Radikal unabhängig zu sein vom Staat und vom Markt – das war die Kernidee der Freien Radios. Nur so könne Pressefreiheit realisiert und die Medien der Kontrolle der Herrschenden entzogen werden. Wir sprachen mit [...]

Platform is not our Destiny: Interview by Angelo Romeo

By Geert Lovink, February 27, 2017

Angelo Romeo sent me a few questions for his upcoming book “Posto, taggo, dunque sono? Rituali e apparenze digitali,” which analyzes “how social media have changed the rituals in the network and how the use of social network does not correspond with concrete relational relationships in everyday life.” Angelo Romeo is a sociology researcher in [...]

Business Insider (IT) Interview on Social Media in the Trump Era

By Geert Lovink, January 25, 2017

Questions from Luciana Grosso Luciana Grosso: What’s next? What is coming after the social network era? What will arrive after this social-mania, if it will ever end? Geert Lovink: I do not mind to act like a futurologist but I have to disappoint you: we’ll be stuck in this social media age for some time [...]

The Inevitable: Socialization of Google and Facebook

By Geert Lovink, December 21, 2016

Interview with Geert Lovink by Remo Bassetti (Italian translation here) Remo Bassetti: It seems that the study of internet and social media hasn’t achieved much success until now. Surprising nothingness, if we think about the levels critical theory of media has reached. Do you share this opinion? Maybe there is a demand for a larger [...]

Communism after Digitization–A Report from Hamburg

By Geert Lovink, December 15, 2016

Report from the 4th conference of the Communist Alliance Ums Ganze on the Question of Technology in Hamburg/Germany (November 24-26, 2016). An audio recording of the session in which I spoke can be found here (in German). Can big data be a solution for the current existential crisis of the liberal-leftist progressives? Recently, Evgene Morozov [...]

Interview with Yuk Hui: Digital Objects and Metadata Schemes

By Geert Lovink, December 9, 2016

Originally published in e-flux Journal #78: http://www.e-flux.com/journal/78/82706/geert-lovink-in-conversation-with-yuk-hui-digital-objects-and-metadata-schemes/ Yuk Hui has dared to pull philosophy into the twenty-first century by asking what a digital object is. Originally from Hong Kong, he has been roaming Europe since 2006. He first did his PhD in London at Goldsmiths College, then relocated to Paris and worked at Bernard Stiegler’s [...]

Dancing to the Loop: Interview with Tilman Baumgärtel

By Geert Lovink, November 23, 2016

https://dj.dancecult.net/index.php/dancecult/article/view/908/777 Dancing to the Loop: Repetition in Contemporary Music. An Interview with Tilman Baumgärtel by Geert Lovink Since the late 1980s, the German media critic Tilman Baumgärtel has developed an interest in sound loops, recently deciding to write the analogue part of its history. In his 2015 monograph Scheifen (Loops) Tilman describes early tape recorder [...]

New essay for Open! on Avant-Garde of the Commons

By Geert Lovink, November 3, 2016

Before Building the Avant–Garde of the Commons by Geert Lovink http://www.onlineopen.org/before-building-the-avant-garde-of-the-commons Weak connections are at the bedrock of social media and the marketing empire it protects. Geert Lovink’s work over the last decade on ‘organized networks’ proposes organized strong connections as tools to embrace and generate a commons that not only consists of small-scale experiments [...]

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