Critique of the Creative Industries v. 3.14: We Are Neither

By Geert Lovink, October 14, 2013

A Brazilian Internet? My Contribution to the Debate

By Geert Lovink, September 25, 2013

I contributed to an article published by The Verge, written by Amar Toor, published on their website on September 25 2013. The story is called “Cutting the cord: Brazil’s bold plan to combat the NSA–President Dilma Rousseff wants to route internet traffic away from the US, but experts say it will do little to deter American [...]

Aesthetics of Dispersed Attention: Interview with German Media Theorist Petra Löffler

By Geert Lovink, September 21, 2013

By Geert Lovink When I met Petra Löffler in the summer of 2012 in Weimar I was amazed to find out about her habilitation topic. She had just finished a study on the history of distraction from a media theory perspective. After I read the manuscript (in German) we decided to do an email interview [...]

Psycultures: The Globalization of Goatrance

By Geert Lovink, August 30, 2013

Interview with Graham St John By Geert Lovink Australian cultural critic Graham St John has written a groundbreaking study on the way the electronic dance music (EDM) genre called Goatrance globalized itself as a movement. In Global Tribe: Technology, Spirituality and Psytrance (Equinox, 2012), he describes Goatrance not merely as a subcategory of EDM. Psytrance, [...]

From Brasil with Love: We Left Facebook

By Geert Lovink, June 19, 2013

From our correspondent in Rio de Janeiro: “There are many posters held up saying similar things like this one, “we left Facebook” or “get out of Facebook and take to the streets”, etc. The FB, Twitter, Instagram activity is intense in helping to coordinate the manifestations quite effectively. There are simultaneous manifestations in tens of [...]

Review of Benoît Peeters, Derrida–A Biography

By Geert Lovink, May 14, 2013

Benoît Peeters’ Derrida biography, just out in English and German translations, is a must-read for everyone interested in late 20th century philosophy. Over the years I must have read 4-5 books of Jacques Derrida–not much in comparison to his phenomenal output. As the cover already announces, Peeters has written a broad, human-interest biography in a [...]

Social Media Questionaire Amongst Zurich Art Students

By Geert Lovink, April 24, 2013

On Monday I gave a talk on social media research and the Unlike Us agenda at the art education masters of the Zurich Art School. The next morning 40 or so students gave ‘like’, ‘dislike’ or ‘whatever’ answers to a few theses they formulated themselves after having read my What’s the Social in Social Media [...]

Recensie van Evgene Morozov’s Safe Everything: Click Here

By Geert Lovink, March 21, 2013

(originele versie van de recensie verschenen in de NRC boekenbijlage van 8 maart 2013. /geert) Van het Wit-Russisch-Amerikaanse “jonge genie” (Tagesanzeiger) Evgene Morozov verscheen deze week een tweede boek dat voortbouwt op zijn bestseller The Net Delusion uit 2011. Deze 28-jarige internetcriticus en veelschrijver is zo succesvol omdat hij het nu eens niet heeft over [...]

Interview für iRights.info über Facebooklöschungen in Deutschland

By Geert Lovink, March 21, 2013

Interview mit Geert Lovink von Alexander Wragge (iRights.info) iRights Fassung: http://irights.info/geert-lovink-facebook-ist-eine-firma-ohne-eigenschaften/13154 Kontext: der Deutsche Fernsehmoderator Jürgen Domian beklagt sich, dass seine kritischen Kommentare auf Facebook gelöscht wurden. Siehe: https://www.facebook.com/Domian.Juergen/posts/466265690110405. Es ging um Kritik an einem katholischen Hardliner. Facebook hat sich für die Löschungen entschuldigt und spricht von einem Fehler. iRights.info: Die Löschung kirchenkritische Kommentare auf [...]

Soziale Medien und Pseudonymität–ein Interview mit Geert Lovink

By Geert Lovink, January 28, 2013

http://www.labkultur.tv/blog/geert-lovink-zur-politik-der-sozialen-medien-und-alternativen-zu-facebook Interview mit Geert Lovink von Julian-Dominik Seysen Frage 1: Wie würden Sie das “Soziale” in Sozialen Medien definieren? Wieso ist Facebook ihrer Meinung nach nicht sozial und was ist das Soziale in den von Ihnen vorgestellten Alternativen? Inwiefern sind diese sozial bzw. wieso sind diese ggt. sozialer? GL: Die Art und Weise wie Facebook, [...]