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 [...]

Just Out: Stuck on the Platform-Reclaiming the Internet by Geert Lovink

By Geert Lovink, May 5, 2022

I am proud to present you my new book: Stuck on the Platform, Reclaiming the Internet. The book is published in five languages, starting with English (Valiz) and Spanish (Holobionte Ediciones), followed in August by German (Transcript Verlag), then Italian (Nero) and Turkish (İletişim). The original English edition, published by Valiz (Amsterdam) can be ordered [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]