Hermes on the Hudson: Review of Excommunication

By Geert Lovink, June 4, 2014

Here is my latest essay on the state of the art of internet culture, published in the e-flux Journal 04/14. It is also a review of the book by three New York media theorists that I knew well, McKenzie Wark, Eugene Thacker and Alex Galloway called Excommunication. In May 2014 we had a discussion about [...]

Interview with Astra Taylor on her book The People’s Platform (Eurozine)

By Geert Lovink, June 4, 2014

I wrote a short review as an intro to an email interview that I did with the documentary film maker Astra Taylor (USA) on her new book entitled The People’s Platform–Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age. The Webmagazine based in Vienna, Austria called Eurozine was interested to published the piece. Here it [...]

Interview for the Hybrid Publishing Blog (CDC/Lüneburg)

By Geert Lovink, May 10, 2014

Five questions of Julia Rehfeldt (Leuphana University, Lueneburg/Germany) to Geert Lovink (Institute of Network Cultures, HvA, Amsterdam, The Netherlands) for the http://hybridpublishing.org blog. 1.) Can you tell us something about your field of research and what you are currently working on at the Hybrid Publishing Lab? Geert Lovink: This spring our Institute of Network Cultures [...]

het masker van de anonimiteit–collectieve individualiteit ontwerpen

By Geert Lovink, March 17, 2014

Door Geert Lovink en Daniël de Zeeuw (in Dutch, English version coming up soon) (dit is laatste versie in het Nederlands van de auteurs, geschreven voor een special issue van het Vlaamse blad RektoVerso over individualisering, april 2014. de gedrukte versie, aangepast door de redaktie, is ietwat anders, maar wie zit daar nu over in? [...]

California Tour in April

By Geert Lovink, March 16, 2014

(in the second week of April I will visit California. First UC Santa Cruz, then UC Davis, ending up at UCLA. Here the post for the UCSC event. /geert) ucsc-poster-for-geert-lovink

The Poverty of Twitter Inc.: Nick Bilton’s Thin Biography

By Geert Lovink, January 24, 2014

In 2012, when Twitter was true and well established, and on its way to its IPO, one of the founders, Evan Williams, asked his partner “How can we raise our children to never act this way? How can we raise them to be honest and caring?” After having read  Twitter’s biography, it makes you wonder [...]

Organized Networks: From Weak Ties to Strong Links (with Ned Rossiter)

By Geert Lovink, November 20, 2013

(Ned Rossiter and I wrote a piece on ‘organized networks’ for the technology special of Occupied Times (#23). Here it is. The URL: http://theoccupiedtimes.org/?p=12547) Organized Networks: From Weak Ties to Strong Links by Geert Lovink and Ned Rossiter Sloganism for late 2013: “I feel protected by unpublished Suite A algorithms.” (J. Sjerpstra) – “I am [...]

Critique of the Creative Industries v. 3.14: We Are Neither

By Geert Lovink, October 14, 2013

A Brazilian Internet? My Contribution to the Debate

By Geert Lovink, September 25, 2013

I contributed to an article published by The Verge, written by Amar Toor, published on their website on September 25 2013. The story is called “Cutting the cord: Brazil’s bold plan to combat the NSA–President Dilma Rousseff wants to route internet traffic away from the US, but experts say it will do little to deter American [...]

Aesthetics of Dispersed Attention: Interview with German Media Theorist Petra Löffler

By Geert Lovink, September 21, 2013

By Geert Lovink When I met Petra Löffler in the summer of 2012 in Weimar I was amazed to find out about her habilitation topic. She had just finished a study on the history of distraction from a media theory perspective. After I read the manuscript (in German) we decided to do an email interview [...]