Plutonian Striptease V: Geert Lovink

By Geert Lovink, September 30, 2010

See also: http://pluto.kuri.mu/2010/09/29/plutonian-striptease-v-geert-lovink/ Plutonian Striptease is a series of interviews with with experts, owners, users, fans and haters of social media, to map the different views on this topic, outside the existing discussions surrounding privacy. PS: Social networks are often in the news. Why do you think this is the case? GL: “Who cares about [...]

The Dark Side of the Free and Open–Interview with Geert...

The Dark Side of the Free and Open (For Artsworld Magazine)

By Geert Lovink, September 17, 2010

The Dark Side of the Free and Open–Interview with Geert Lovink @ Ars Electronica, Linz, September 4, 2010. By Mateja Rot (Artwords Magazine, Slovenia) Mateja Rot: You entitled your lecture on the Open Source Life symposium at Festival Ars Electronica 2010 The Meaning of Open is Obfuscated. Can you explain what is so problematic about [...]

There has been a lot of positive response to the...

re: Ten Theses on Wikileaks

By Geert Lovink, September 10, 2010

There has been a lot of positive response to the ten theses on Wikileaks that I wrote a couple of weeks ago together with Patrice Riemens. We were not so interested in an offer to rewrite it for a journal into “a substantially re-worked/developed piece.” The peer review lobby that rules these academic journals luckily [...]

“Dealing with light, at the darkest of hours.” Johan Sjerpstra...

Underground Networks in the Age of Web 2.0

By Geert Lovink, September 3, 2010

“Dealing with light, at the darkest of hours.” Johan Sjerpstra The question of social networking sites in art and activism is highly strategic and touches on key issues, from internal organization to campaign design and publicity. What looks like yet another layer of social fluff asks for principled decisions. The moral panic condemns Web 2.0 [...]

By Geert Lovink and Patrice Riemens These 0. “What do...

Ten Theses on Wikileaks

By Geert Lovink, August 30, 2010

By Geert Lovink and Patrice Riemens These 0. “What do I think of Wikileaks? I think it would be a good idea!” (after Mahatma Gandhi’s famous quip on ‘Western Civilisation’) These 1. Disclosures and leaks have been of all times, but never before has a non state- or non- corporate affiliated group done this at [...]

The Meaning of Open is Obfuscated Interview with Geert Lovink...

The Meaning of Open is Obfuscated–Interview for Ars Electronica

By Geert Lovink, August 23, 2010

The Meaning of Open is Obfuscated Interview with Geert Lovink by Andreas Hirsch (AEC), for the Ars Electronica 2010 Catalogue Andreas Hirsch: In your book “Dark Fiber” (2002) you wrote: “Changes in technological paradigms take years. It’s questionable whether human nature, with all its fatal flaws and charming defects, will ever change. It is therefore [...]

Abstract of presentation at the Practice to Policy 2010: Barriers...

New Cultural Policy: Support Organized Networks

By Geert Lovink, August 19, 2010

Abstract of presentation at the Practice to Policy 2010: Barriers to Transformation panel (@ ISEA 2010 RUHR) Dortmund, August 24 2010 (15:00-16:30), Orchesterzentrum NRW, Brückstraße 47, organized and hosted by Virtueel Platform (NL). By Geert Lovink Much like the shifting relationship between social movements and NGOs 10-15 ago, we see a growing tension between the [...]

Berliner Gazette published an interview with me, conducted via email...

Why Quit Facebook–Interview with Berliner Gazette (in German)

By Geert Lovink, August 16, 2010

Berliner Gazette published an interview with me, conducted via email by Chris Piallat, in German. Here it is. The title is Telecommunism is Possible and deals with the Quit Facebook day on May 30 2o10 and why it is not the task of the German police and its boss to define Germany’s Internet policy.

Cia Guo-Qiang’s Romantic Resolution of the Peasant Question

By Geert Lovink, July 18, 2010

Shanghai’s State of the Creative Arts at the Opening of the Rockbund Art Museum The Rockbund Art Museum, situated on the Northern tip of the Shanghai Bund area, opened May 2010 in conjunction with the 2010 Shanghai World Expo (expected visitors 70 million). The museum is part of a redevelopment area and is housed in [...]

Report of Transit Labour Asia in Shanghai

By Geert Lovink, July 18, 2010

Next posting on this blog was written during a visit to Shanghai (July 8-11, 2010) as a result of the Transit Labour Asia research platform, an Australian-European-Asian coalition of scholars, artists and cultural workers who focus on urban issues, migration and new media (arts). Their first stop was Shanghai, next ones will be Kalkota and [...]