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Dromen over een zichtbare, levendige HvA bibliotheek

By Geert Lovink, June 14, 2024

(dit is de niet-ingekorte versie van mijn opiniestuk voor HvanA, de online nieuws website van de Hogeschool van Amsterdam waar ons lectoraat netwerkcultuur sinds januari 2004 aan is verbonden. De korte HvanA versie staat hier) Wat onmiddellijk opvalt bij het betreden van HvA-gebouwen is de afwezigheid van boeken en tijdschriften. De gebouwen zijn kaal, leeg [...]

Call for Presentations: Platform Blues, University of Canberra Symposium, 21.11.2024

By Geert Lovink, June 9, 2024

Platform Blues (and Its Alternatives) I gotta right to sing the blues I gotta right to feel low-down I gotta right to hang around Down around the river Louis Armstrong (https://youtu.be/BUuI3oHQfm8) One Day Symposium at the University of Canberra, November 21, 2024 Curated by Geert Lovink (Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam), facilitated Denise Thwaites (UoC) [...]

Interview with Tamara Kneese about Death Glitch – How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in this Life and Beyond

By Geert Lovink, May 16, 2024

“Eine Art des Verschwindens ausdenken, die den Tod bezwingt.” Elias Canetti Some topics will haunt you. Death and the internet is one of those for me. Out of the five PhDs I supervised at the European Graduate School, three of them dealt with death and digital media. As a ‘anarchivist’ I have sympathy for the [...]

Interview with Konrad Wojnowski about Probabilistic Aesthetics of the Avant-Garde

By Geert Lovink, May 7, 2024

The Polish theorist Konrad Wojnowski has written an excellent book about the artistic pre-history of ‘probabilistics’ and predictive arts. Based in Krakow where he teaches at the  Institute of Literature and Theatre Studies of the Jagiellonian University, Konrad is also part of UKRAiNATV, where I got to know him. INC has recently published his essay [...]

Interview with Geert Lovink on the 2010s Web by Ingrid Luquet-Gad

By Geert Lovink, April 22, 2024

The starting point of this interview was a pragmatic need for context: for of my PhD, I wanted to unpack particular concepts of Geert Lovink and expand on others. As a researcher with a background in art criticism, my investigation centers on the artworld of the 2010s, its tired mainstream institutions and the strategies used [...]

Cloud Capital and Platform Regression – Review of Yanis Varoufakis, Techno Feudalism

By Geert Lovink, March 22, 2024

A meme is spreading: capitalism is dead. We’re toiling around in its carcass. Nothing appears as it seems in this zombie state of affairs. But why didn’t we notice? There’s confusion all over. Climate, Covid, Ukraine, Gaza. Is history accelerating, or, rather the opposite, stagnating, even regressing? In his latest book Techno Feudalism, Yanis Varoufakis [...]

For Maurice Nio: Unseen, Architecture Slipped Away by Lars Spuybroek

By Geert Lovink, March 18, 2024

Maurice Nio (1959), Dutch architect theorist, writer and artist  passed away on July, 11, 2023. Last Friday night I attended the launch for his new book The Suspence of Architecture-The Necessity to Shine (published by Thousand and One Publishers in Amsterdam, order here). Maurice was still able to finish the manuscript. Many colleagues, friends and [...]

Extinction Internet: Italian, Portuguese and Polish Translations with Bonus Song

By Geert Lovink, March 11, 2024

Extinction Internet, the song, read by Geert Lovink, music by Gleb Dovzhuk @UKRAiNATV, recorded in Krakow, October 2023: There is a video version, made by David Herzog, you can watch it here. — Polish translation, published by Grupa Robocza in Krakow: https://wymieranie.mvu.pl/sklep/. Buy here: https://buy.stripe.com/eVacQB3aJ70B43mfYY. — Italian translation, published by NOT/Nero in Rome: https://not.neroeditions.com/extinction-internet/ Internet [...]

Out Now: Spanish Translation of Extinction Internet

By Geert Lovink, January 25, 2024

Lovink, Geert, Carlos A. Scolari y Laura Pérez-Altable. 2024. La extinción de internet: política, redes y plataformas. Barcelona: Departament de Comunicació, Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Communication Reports 09: https://doi.org/10.31009/cr.2024.09. Or here: UPF Communication Report 09. (the original English version of the interview was posted here on this blog earlier) La extinción de internet: política, redes y [...]

Sinan Refik Akgün & Ebru Yetişkin: Interview with Geert Lovink (for Art Unlimited Magazine)

By Geert Lovink, January 10, 2024

(This is an email interview from late 2023, conducted for the Turkish Art Unlimited magazine that can also be read on their website here. In the printed version where you can find the Turkish translation there is also a QR code that leads to the sound registration of my talk in November at Akbank Sanat [...]

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