Below a fragment of a Skype (!) interview by the...

Alexander Kluge on the importance of keeping internet open (in German)

By Geert Lovink, December 28, 2009

Below a fragment of a Skype (!) interview by the Berlin-based Freitag weekly with the German public intellectual, film maker and TV producer Alexander Kluge on the importance of the internet. I am sorry for those who do not (yet) read German. I’ll leave it untranslated as it as. Freitag: Sie haben von der Intelligenz [...]

http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2009-12-01-passig-de.html (in German) The German conservative elitist literature magazine Merkur...

internet and “solutions for problems that no longer exist”

By Geert Lovink, December 3, 2009

http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2009-12-01-passig-de.html (in German) The German conservative elitist literature magazine Merkur “wonders what the hell the Internet is good for.” From argument 1 — “What the hell is it good for?” — to argument 9 — new technologies reduce our ability to think, write and read — German writer and journalist Kathrin Passig compiles cultural criticism’s [...]

Interview with Geert Lovink, Prague, late October 2009 By Magdalena...

Latest on Web 2.0, Art and Activism (interview for A2, Prague)

By Geert Lovink, November 17, 2009

Interview with Geert Lovink, Prague, late October 2009 By Magdalena Kobzova, for A2 Magazine (I was in Prague to give a master class at the new media dept. of the FAMU film school, invited by Milos Vojtechovsky where the PhD worker and cultural theorist Magda Kobzova made the following interview with me. /geert) MK: Looking [...]

There is an interview with me by Winfried Rust in...

End Cultural Pessimism! (interview in German)

By Geert Lovink, November 7, 2009

There is an interview with me by Winfried Rust in the latest issue of the German Third World magazine iz3w on the spread of internet and mobile phones in the global South. This solidarity and a special issue on “digital worlds”. The text is called “An End to Cultural Pessimism” and was conducted in German. [...]

Critique of the European Heritage Industry

By Geert Lovink, October 24, 2009

A Conference Report from Lund (Sweden) I love libraries and archives, yet shy away from the ‘cultural heritage’ industry. How come? I grappled with this question last week when I visited Lund where a EU meeting of national archives took place. The event was called “Improving Access to European Heritage” and I was invited to [...]

The topic of ‘organized networks’ still occupies me, ever since...

Urgent Aphorisms: Notes on Organized Networks for the Connected Multitudes

By Geert Lovink, October 22, 2009

The topic of ‘organized networks’ still occupies me, ever since I developed this concept around 2005 together with my friend Ned Rossiter. We have written a third text about ‘orgnets’, which I posted on my pages site here. It’s for a SAGE anthology, edited by Mark Deuze. It also ran on nettime. During WinterCamp, early [...]

Lately I have been involved, again, in radio. As you...

From Pirate Radio to Internet Radio & Archive Experiments

By Geert Lovink, October 15, 2009

Lately I have been involved, again, in radio. As you might know I was mad about radio, mixing and audio interviews from approximately 1987 till 2000. Recently I have been supporting Migrant2Migrant (M2M) Radio that emerged from the Iraq context of streamtime.org and the protests surrounding the deadly fire in the Schiphol detention centre of [...]

List Cultures and the Art of Moderation Interview with Geert...

Interview on List Cultures and Moderation

By Geert Lovink, August 26, 2009

List Cultures and the Art of Moderation Interview with Geert Lovink by Donata Marletta DM: Hi, I’m Donata, a PhD student from the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change at Leeds Metropolitan University in the UK. My thesis is about the emergence of new social spaces created by festivals devoted to art and technology, and [...]

0. The internet turns out to be neither the problem...

The Digital Given–10 Web 2.0 Theses by Ippolita, Geert Lovink & Ned Rossiter

By Geert Lovink, June 15, 2009

0. The internet turns out to be neither the problem nor the solution for the global recession. As an indifferent bystander it doesn’t lend itself easily as a revolutionary tool. The virtual has become the everyday. The New Deal is presented as green, not digital. The digital is a given. This low-key position presents an [...]

I am high up in the Swiss Alps, in the...

Teaching at the European Graduate School in Saas Fee

By Geert Lovink, June 12, 2009

I am high up in the Swiss Alps, in the car-free village of Saas Fee, to teach a class for three days to PhD students of the European Graduate School, invited by Wolfgang Schirmacher and Hendrik Speck (who are also teaching here). I was here for the first time in June 2007 (the public lecture [...]