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Lars Spuybroek THE GRACE MACHINE Seminar

By Geert Lovink, November 17, 2021

THE GRACE MACHINE Seminar is an experiment that challenges the distinction between the humanities and technology by using a form of thinking based on what Roland Barthes called “gymnastic figures.” Five such figures—standing, jumping, hanging, floating, and falling—epitomize certain aspects of grace that enable the crisscrossing of various disciplines such as architecture, art history, media [...]

Korean We Are Not Sick Video Lecture by Geert Lovink

By Geert Lovink, September 20, 2021

http://whatdomuseumsconnect.kr/programs/1/sad-by-design-we-are-not-sick In this presentation, Geert Lovink discusses the dark side of the net. The mental state of internet users is tragic. Instead of empowerment and self-organization, what we mostly see around the internet is anger and despair. How did we end up like this? This lecture will zoom in on the widespread techno-sadness that is [...]

Call for INC Theory on Demand on Ethics Washing in AI

By Geert Lovink, July 19, 2021

Call for Chapters/INC Theory on Demand Economies of Virtue: The Circulation of ‘Ethics’ in AI and Digital Culture Edited by Thao Phan, Jake Goldenfein, Monique Mann, and Declan Kuch Who funds research into the ethics of AI technologies? How does AI ethics relate to issues of power? And how does an industry-sponsored ethics agenda impact [...]

Interview with Geert Lovink/We Are Not Sick by Jess Henderson/Band of Burnouts

By Geert Lovink, July 6, 2021

Jess Henderson from the No Fun blog (hosted on the INC site) and the Band of Burnouts exhibited in Zurich her own version of the materials generated by We Are Not Sick (me and John Longwalker). This consists of music tracks, texts, slides  and videos. Here you can read an email interview she did with [...]

Interview with Geert Lovink by Petar Jandrić

By Geert Lovink, June 27, 2021

Petar Jandrić: In a 2012 interview for Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, you said: “Internet, by and large, has not affected democratic culture, at least not in the West.” You made this statement five years before the election of Donald Trump and the rapid (online) proliferation of post-truth and fake news. Can you please [...]

La Repubblica interview: From Sad by Design to Zoom Fatigue

By Geert Lovink, June 8, 2021

Interview with Geert Lovink by Annarita Briganti For La Repubblica, May 31, 2021 Italian online version: https://www.repubblica.it/cultura/2021/06/08/news/geert_lovink_viaggio_nello_stress_da_iperconnessione_la_tecno-tristezza_si_verifica_quando_e_tutto_troppo_e_dobbiamo_smet-304844326/ Italian version as pdf: Lovink interviee 06_08_21 Original English email version: Annarita Briganti: What are Zoom fatigue and techno sadness? Geert Lovink: In 2019 the Italian translation Nichilismo digitale came out with Bocconi Editore in which I wrote about ‘sad [...]

“Social Media are not the New Smoking”: Interview with Geert Lovink by Juan Íñigo

By Geert Lovink, May 13, 2021

Published in Spanish in the Latin-American online edition of Jacobin: https://jacobinlat.com/2021/05/13/las-redes-sociales-no-son-el-nuevo-tabaquismo/. English original below. Juan Íñigo: In a recent article you talked to several theorists about “zoom fatigue,” a term that has become popular lately. What makes a video conference so demanding and psychologically exhausting during covid? Geert Lovink: Video conferencing has quickly become the [...]

Audio, Text and Reading Today: Interview with Geert Lovink

By Geert Lovink, April 23, 2021

By Lucia Tonelli & Giorgia Giacomini We’re MA students in Communication and Graphic Design at ISIA Urbino, Italy and we’re researching the act of publishing for Jonathan Pierini’s Graphic Production Techniques class. The task is to provocatively ignore the boundaries of established publishing practices and broaden our field of investigation. Giorgia read I Read Where [...]

Questions from Pablo Gámez Cersosimo

By Geert Lovink, April 2, 2021

Questions from Pablo Gámez Cersosimo “ Wir fragen nach der Technik und möchten dadurch eine freie Beziehung zu ihr vorbereiten. Das Fragen baut an einem Weg, ein Weg des Denkens.” Martin Heidegger The email interview below was conducted by Pablo Gámez Cersosimo for his upcoming book Depredadores Digitales: una historia de la huella de carbono [...]

Samos Calling: Phone Credit for Refugees

By Geert Lovink, April 1, 2021

Samos Calling: refugees receive first phone credit Twenty African refugees living in the Vathy camp on the Greek island of Samos received €12,50 of phone credit from a new initiative named SAMOS CALLING. This initiative of Migrant 2 Migrant (M2M), Radio Patapoe and Stichting Hulpkaravaan aims to bolster the communication capacity of refugees, to make their voices heard and create connections. The first [...]