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Harry Halpin & Geert Lovink: Another Social Network is Possible!–On Bernard Stiegler and the Social Media Question

By Geert Lovink, December 28, 2022

(This essay draft was written in late 2021. Due to academic publishing blues, the Bernard Stiegler memorial anthology for which this contribution was written is now supposedly coming out in late 2023 with Bloomsbury. HH & GL) In this tribute to Bernard Stiegler, we highlight an obscure yet important episode in his work: Stiegler’s contribution [...]

Van De Digitale Stad naar de metaverse: interview met Geert Lovink door Lieve Baetens

By Geert Lovink, December 21, 2022

In het kader van mijn afstudeeronderzoek aan de Amsterdamse Reinwardt Academie heb ik onlangs Geert Lovink geïnterviewd. Het onderzoek richt zich op de (her)waardering van De Digitale Stad, opgericht in 1994, als casus voor bescherming van potentiële born-digital erfgoedprojecten in de metaverse. Nadat De Digitale Stad in 2001 offline werd gehaald hebben meerdere partijen samengewerkt [...]

New texts by Geert Lovink (incl. interviews), English/Dutch

By Geert Lovink, December 11, 2022

Dreamful Computing by Ned Rossiter and Geert Lovink, instigated by Shintaro Miyazaki for https://counter-n.net: https://edoc.hu-berlin.de/bitstream/handle/18452/26284/counter-n2022-rossiter-lovink.pdf The first paragraph: We start with the end, the final words Bernard Stiegler wrote in the last English translation before he died, The Age of Disruption (2019): “In order to do politics today, we must dream.”1 We cast techniques of [...]

Gerade erschienen: In der Plattformfalle-Plädoyer zur Rückeroberung des Internets

By Geert Lovink, August 8, 2022

https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-6333-4/in-der-plattformfalle/ Geert Lovink, In der Plattformfalle-Plädoyer zur Rückeroberung des Internets, Transcipt Verlag, August 2022 Wir sitzen alle in der Plattformfalle! Doomscrolling ist die neue Normalität des digitalisierten 24/7-Online-Lebens und scheinbar abhängig von großen Plattformen finden wir nicht mehr ins unbeschwerte Zeitalter dezentraler Netzwerke zurück: Zoom-Müdigkeit, Cancel Culture, Kryptokunst und psychische Regression bilden die zentralen Elemente [...]

Noise is the Message, Short Essay for El Pais

By Geert Lovink, May 15, 2022

(I wrote a short essay on ‘noise’ for El Pais, here the URL of the Spanish transation and below the original text in English: El ruido es la nueva banda sonora de tu vida https://elpais.com/ideas/2022-05-15/el-ruido-es-la-nueva-banda-sonora-de-tu-vida.html) Noise is the Message By Geert Lovink Information overload turns relevant information into distressing noise. When there are too many [...]

Mental Long Covid and the Techno-Social Unconscious-Interview with Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi

By Geert Lovink, May 12, 2022

It’s late April 2022 in Bologna and we meet in Franco’s apartment. He shows me his collection of collages he produced in the Covid period, his art therapy to fight off depression. The paintings can be found here and there online, exhibited under the pseudonym Istubalz. We’ve come together to discuss his latest book The Third [...]

Proposition on Peak Data

By Geert Lovink, April 7, 2022

“Wenn es um empirische Methoden ging, wurde Adorno grundsätzlich misstrauisch, denn eine Wissenschaft die auf Zählen, Messen und Wiegen reduziert wurde, machte für ihn den Triumph der Verdinglichung perfekt.” Jörg Später (1) Data, the raw material from which information is derived, is stored, copied, moved and modified more easily than ever. This quantum leap reaches [...]

“Worlds of Networks”-Centre Pompidou/Ircam exhibit & conference

By Geert Lovink, March 9, 2022

Exhibition: https://www.centrepompidou.fr/en/program/calendar/event/6lEXdWo A collective exhibition, “Worlds of Networks” brings together some sixty artists, architects and designers who question the place of the network in our societies innervated by social networks and the dematerialization of the network itself. More than ever, in the internet age, the network is at the heart of technological change and societal [...]

Latest Version of the Sad by Design/We Are Not Sick Performance

By Geert Lovink, January 26, 2022

New version of my ever-changing music-theory performance under fluctuating names Sad by Design and We Are Not Sick, this time at Neme Gallery in Limassol (Cyprus), December 11, 2021, as part of their Through the Mesh: Media, Borders and Firewalls exhibition. Thanks to Patrick Lichty for the invitation and to Yiannis Colakides for the careful [...]

Q&A with Business Consultant Maik Baumgaertner

By Geert Lovink, January 11, 2022

Email interview with Geert Lovink by business consultant Maik Baumgaertner (late 2021) Maik Baumgaertner: Thinking specifically about the intersection of the internet and culture, what’s on the horizon for 2022? What are you excited or scared about? Geert Lovink:  We’ve never been scared, otherwise you cannot take up the fight with titans. We need to believe in [...]