Yuk Hui: In Memory of Bernard Stiegler

By Geert Lovink, August 9, 2020

In Memory of Bernard How could I believe that Bernard has already left us? It is true that Bernard has left, but I don’t believe and will not believe. Since I woke up on the 7th of August and read about the death of Bernard, I listened to his voice on radio and I felt [...]

Delete Your Profile, Not People, Comment on Cancel Culture

By Geert Lovink, August 5, 2020

by Geert Lovink (official version first published on Eurozine, August 5, 2020) “The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he’s in prison.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky Nobody and nothing seems safe. “Cremated” eye shadow? Canceled. The Dalai Lama? Canceled. Israel? Canceled. Novelty Internet Rappers? Canceled, recanceled, and then [...]

Geert Lovink text archive (1999-2010) transferred to INC

By Geert Lovink, June 28, 2020

The dilemma is an old one: should one spread one’s legacy here and there in order to minimize risks to lose the information all at once or rather centralize the archives to make sure that the scattered bits and pieces do not disappear unnoticed? In my case the pendulum is swinging back. After the Bilwet/Adilkno [...]

Sad by Design Essay in Turkish & Interview with Red Thread

By Geert Lovink, May 12, 2020

I am proud to announce that my Sad by Design essay has been translated into Turkish: http://red-thread.org/mutsuzlugu-tasariminda. It was published in the 5th issue of the Red Thread web magazine, published out of Belgrade and Istanbul. Here the table of content and introduction of the current issue on “Alt-Truths and Insta-Realities: The Psychopolitics of Contemporary [...]

Ben Grosser-Geert Lovink Dialogue on Media Art in the Age of Platform Capitalism

By Geert Lovink, April 23, 2020

US new media artist Ben Grosser and I met at the 2013 Unlike Us #3 Institute of Network Cultures event in Amsterdam where he presented his Demetricator, a free web browser extension that hides all the metrics on Facebook. I have followed his work ever since. We got in contact again in 2019 when he [...]

remarks on corona video witness accounts

By Geert Lovink, April 22, 2020

I have been limiting my news intake since week 2 of the corona crisis, saving it up for the evening, when I read the physical papers (Het Parool and NRC) and we watch the traditional 8 o’clock national news at NPO1, a Dutch habit I must have lost some 30 years ago. Around week 3 [...]

Space is the Place: Interview with Geoffrey Lillemon about dystopian VR aesthetics

By Geert Lovink, April 12, 2020

Space is the Place: Staging the VR-Smart Phone Lifestyle Wars Interview with VR artist Geoffrey Lillemon by Geert Lovink (Exhibition website: https://miekegerritzen.com/space-is-the-place/. More images by Geoffrey Lillemon, based on the @droog installation, at Geoffrey’s website: http://geoffreylillemon.com/spaceistheplace/. The images used in this posting merge the sloganism on the wall of the gallery and the mannequins. I [...]

This Level of Metaphysics ain’t no Shit-Geert Lovink interviewed by Bram Ieven

By Geert Lovink, April 9, 2020

(first published on April 8, 2020, without introduction, by 3AM Magazine here) This level of metaphysics ain’t no shit Interview with Geert Lovink by Bram Ieven (Utrecht-Amsterdam, early April 2020) Social organizing in times of social media has never been an easy task. But now that we are all sequestered in our own homes, in [...]

On Digital Nihilism and Techno-Sadness, Interview with Geert Lovink (for Cyberzone)

By Geert Lovink, April 7, 2020

Interview with Geert Lovink by Marcello Faletra for Cyberzone Magazine (Italy) (This email interview was conducted in July 2019 and turned out to be one of my favorites. I never met Marcello in person but we’re connected through Franco Berardi and various others of the Italian Connection. I have been patiently waiting for the printed [...]

Jenseits programmierter Traurigkeit, Erklärung zu Hanau

By Geert Lovink, March 6, 2020

Von Geert Lovink Vorgetragen bei der Eröffnung der Digikonferenz der Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung im Mousonturm in Frankfurt am Main, 5. März 2020. Am allerwichtigsten ist das Motto: „Ihnen zuhören, Ihre Stimmen zählen!“. Am wichtigsten ist das, was die Angehörigen der Opfer und ihr Umfeld fordern, wollen und nicht wollen. Wir sollten zuhören, vor allem [...]