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Official group photo vs. group selfie

By Geert Lovink, December 14, 2014

Members of my master class critical internet culture in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, December 15-16 2014:

Ahmed on his laptop

By Geert Lovink, November 25, 2014

Nadeem Baghdadi is an artist living in Blackburn, Lancashire (UK). I really liked this painting so I asked Nadeem if I could put it on my blog. He wrote the following: “My main aim in this painting was to have the subject lit up by the laptop screen that he had placed directly onto his [...]

On the Creative Question–Nine Theses

By Geert Lovink, November 20, 2014

On the Creative Question – Nine Theses By Geert Lovink, Sebastian Olma and Ned Rossiter (written for the #2 MyCreativity Sweatshop conference, organized by the Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, November 20-21, 2014) ‘Culture attracts the worst impulses of the moneyed, it has no honor, it begs to be suburbanized and corrupted’. ― Thomas Pynchon, [...]

Wearable Discourses: Interview with Susan E. Ryan

By Geert Lovink, November 17, 2014

When Dress Absorbs Technology–An Interview with Susan Elizabeth Ryan By Rebecca Louise Breuer and Geert Lovink Susan Elizabeth Ryan is Professor of Art History, Theory, New Media and Design at the Louisiana State University School of Art. She recently published her study Garments of Paradise, Wearable Discourse in the Digital Age. In the introduction of [...]

MP3: An Interview with Jonathan Sterne

By Geert Lovink, November 10, 2014

There is a piece of me in the fourth issue of Computational Culture, an interview with Jonathan Sterne about his book Mp3, The Meaning of a Format (Duke University Press, Durham/London, 2012). It is a real classic in its genre and reminded me of the times when I read Avital Ronnell on the telephone and [...]

Conversation with Spanish social critic César Rendueles

By Geert Lovink, October 25, 2014

  We do not prefer Facebook A conversation with Spanish social critic César Rendueles by Geert Lovink First published in Eurozine, Oct. 20, 2014. A German translation was published by the Berliner Gazette. Lately I have been preoccupied with the question of European answers to the techno-libertarian onslaught of Silicon Valley. Why are so many [...]

Speech at Franco Berardi’s PhD Defence in Helsinki

By Geert Lovink, October 24, 2014

(It has been a special honour and a pleasure for me to act as opponent for Franco Berardi’s PhD defence at Aalto University, School of Arts, Design and Architecture in Helsinki on October 23, 2014. You can read more about the event on the Future Art Base website. A video of the two hour ceremony, [...]

On Reclaiming the Internet with Distributed Architectures

By Geert Lovink, October 6, 2014

Scattered notes on the symposium of the ADAM project (October 2-3, 2014, MINES ParisTech). By Geert Lovink. This final conference of the French research project ADAM was put together several years ago but certainly hadn’t lost its relevance and foresight. The demand to defend and further develop distributed networks is still part of both libertarian [...]

Erratic Movements – A Conversation with Geert Lovink

By Geert Lovink, September 25, 2014

By Martn Palmer Original Norwegian version: http://trondheimkunsthall.com/news/Uberegnelige-bevegelser-en-samtale-med-Geert-Lovink English translation by Jason Havneraas: http://trondheimkunsthall.com/news/Erratic-Movements-A-Conversation-with-Geert-Lovink Geert Lovink is a media theorist, internet critic and author of Zero Comments (2007) and Networks Without a Cause (2012). Since 2004 he is a researcher at the School for Communication and Media Design at the University of Applied Sciences, Amsterdam. He [...]

Four Questions Lüneburg Is Most Interested In

By Geert Lovink, August 19, 2014

Questions: Julia Rehfeldt–Answers: Geert Lovink 1. What topics are you currently concerned with in your work or research? GL: Apart from the ongoing issues around Wikileaks, Anonymous and Snowden, which I consider a continuum, and net activist stuff that also always somehow goes on (everything post-Occupy) that question whether and how we can build alternatives [...]