The Missing Free Software in the Principles of Perma-Hybridity

By Giuseppe Aceto, August 25, 2024

Geert Lovink’s Principles of Perma-Hybridity is packed-full with concepts I want to explore to a deeper level despite already resonating with my understanding and experience. However, I felt alternatives to platforms were missing. Self-managed federated social media deserve a mention as a practical and functioning example of reaction to the algorithmic management of technically-mediated human [...]

Principles of Perma-Hybridity

By Geert Lovink, August 24, 2024

(written for the NoSchoolNevers publication The Internet of Dead Things) “The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of monsters appear.” Antonio Gramsci “The real power of a neganthropic and anti-anthropic institution comes from its energetic potential, which it [...]

On Twitter, Musk and the Need for European Social Media Sovereignty

By Geert Lovink, August 10, 2024

Interview with Geert Lovink for the German Telepolis Online Magazine by Claudia Wangerin August 7, 2024 (Deutsche Fassung hier) q: First of all, let’s talk about Internet and other addictions. It has been known for centuries that too much alcohol is harmful but many people still get addicted to it. Around 2.6 million people worldwide [...]

Jake Saliger’s Uncomfortable Truth: How Close is ‘Positivity Culture’ to Delusion and Denial?

By Geert Lovink, August 3, 2024

This is a rewrite of Jake Saliger’s blogposting Uncomfortable Truth: How Close is ‘Positivity Culture’ to Delusion and Denial? While many celebrate appropriation as Kulturideal, yet it’s not done to actually alter texts of others. It’s considered plagiarism – and we have machines for that. However, what happens you do this out in the open and [...]

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 [...]