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I won’t post each and every article or reference to...

Reviews and other material related to Networks Without a Cause

By Geert Lovink, July 20, 2012

I won’t post each and every article or reference to the release of my book on this blog. Instead I will try to list them here. Here is my first attempt to collect the online material until July 2012. The German edition will be out by late August. – Review of Simona Lodi for The [...]
An interview I did with Rotterdam philosopher Gijs van Oenen...

Interview with Gijs van Oenen on Interpassivity in Theory and Event

By Geert Lovink, July 11, 2012

An interview I did with Rotterdam philosopher Gijs van Oenen has just been published in the journal Theory and Event (Volume 15, issue 2, 2012). It deals with van Oenen’s project on interpassivity and a book he published last year, in Dutch, on the topic. You can go here for the online version, available through [...]
I got back Sunday night from a book tour in...

more on the Italian book tour

By Geert Lovink, June 20, 2012

I got back Sunday night from a book tour in Torino, Milano and Bologna. It was pretty full on, with so much attention for my work, the Italian translation of Networks Without a Cause and the ‘Facebook debate’ in general. It is pretty obvious that internet is now an integrated part of mainstream culture in [...]
Belayed Report about V2’s DEAF Conference on Vital Beauty I...

Theory After Deleuze?

By Geert Lovink, June 16, 2012

Belayed Report about V2’s DEAF Conference on Vital Beauty I had the pleasure to attend the one-day conference organized by V2 (Rotterdam) entitled Vital Beauty, held on May 16 2012 in De Balie (Amsterdam), a part of the Dutch Electronic Arts Festival with the theme ‘The Power of Things’. In his opening statement former architect [...]
Interview with Geert Lovink by Anna Masera (La Stampa) Q...

On the Road Interview with La Stampa

By Geert Lovink, June 14, 2012

Interview with Geert Lovink by Anna Masera (La Stampa) Q &A on the road from Amsterdam via Milano to Torino, June 13, 2012 A somewhat shorter version, in Italian, on the La Stampa website here. AM: Your book “Networks Without A Cause” (translated in Italian as “Collective Obsessions”) is a very articulate work, hard to [...]
Interview with Geert Lovink by Stefania Garassini (Milan) for the...

Interview on the Eve of the Italian Book Tour

By Geert Lovink, June 12, 2012

Interview with Geert Lovink by Stefania Garassini (Milan) for the daily newspaper Avvenire. Also see short txt here, in Italian. SG: Do you think that people are now experiencing a kind of “saturation” from social networks and so web 2.0 is about to crash or become something else? Since your first analyses in “Zero comments”, what [...]
I was asked by an Italian newspaper to submit 96...

96 words on the future of the internet

By Geert Lovink, June 6, 2012

I was asked by an Italian newspaper to submit 96 words on the future of internet. Here they are: Instead of further going down the corporate lane of Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Google and Facebook, I propose to go back to the original architecture of Internet as public infrastructure with decentralized nodes. It may be romantic [...]

Interview in Corriera della Sera

By Geert Lovink, May 21, 2012

Last week the Italian edition of Networks Without a Cause came out. It has a preface of Vito Campanelli and was translated by Bernardo Parrella and published by AGEA in Milano. In Italian it is called L’OSSESSIONE COLLETTIVA (THE COLLECTIVE OBSESSION). Mid June I will do a small book tour in Torino, Milano and Bologna. [...]
Last Saturday an interview with me appeared in Der Tagesspiegel,...

Facebook IPO Frency

By Geert Lovink, May 16, 2012

Last Saturday an interview with me appeared in Der Tagesspiegel, a Berlin daily, and was conducted in German. The conversation somehow reflects the common uncertainty what to make of the unprecedented popularity of this social networking site. The piece is called Facebook is Conservative, a title that refers to way in which Facebook deals with [...]

Code Bunker at Rollercoaster Exhibition (MOTI Breda)

By Geert Lovink, April 29, 2012

This is me inside the ‘code bunker’. The installation was designed by Marjolijn Ruyg for the Rollercoaster exhibition that opened in the Breda Museum of the Image (NL) on April 29 and runs till September 2, 2012. Writer Joost Zwagerman and MOTI director Mieke Gerritzen invited me to submit an image “that defines the 21 [...]