In response to a request to write an essay, I...

After Vienna: Interview within an Interview

By Geert Lovink, January 12, 2008

In response to a request to write an essay, I agreed to answer to answer a few questions. The context was an event in Vienna, on November 8 2007 entitled „Towards a European Public Space“. You can find the question of Julia Rosch (BPB) and my answers here in the ever-growing ‘pages’ section of my [...]

In preparation of Videovortex 2 (Amsterdam, January 18/19) I sent...

Video Surfdom: Three Questions for DeeDee Halleck

By Geert Lovink, December 25, 2007

In preparation of Videovortex 2 (Amsterdam, January 18/19) I sent the video activist and artist DeeDee Halleck (Paper Tiger TV) from New York a few questions. I love her blog named after her book Hand Held Visions, have you read it? GL: How do you look at YouTube from your long media activist perspective? So [...]

The year is getting to an end and I am...

Interview with Caroline Nevejan

By Geert Lovink, December 24, 2007

The year is getting to an end and I am wrapping up unfinished texts. The interview with Caroline Nevejan is one of them. She got her PhD in April, I sent the first round of questions, and as it goes, things drag on. Over the last two weeks it suddenly progressed and here it is.

A one page interview with me has been published this...

Interview with me in Die Zeit (in German)

By Geert Lovink, December 23, 2007

A one page interview with me has been published this week in the December 19 2007 edition of the German weekly Die Zeit. The interview was conducted, in German, by Thomas Gross, in the Amsterdam INC office, some weeks ago. You can read the text as it appeared in Die Zeit here on my blog [...]

The Technology Panel (Friday, October 26, 2007) It’s always hard...

Global Conversations in Irvine, the Technology and Closing Panels

By Geert Lovink, October 27, 2007

The Technology Panel (Friday, October 26, 2007) It’s always hard to blog the panel you’re on but I have nonetheless tried. We sat in a spacious lecture hall of the Irvine IT engineering faculty. The group had shrunken to 40 participants but the level of the presentation remained high. Session VIII of the Global Conversations [...]

There is always a sense of sensation when one enters...

Global Conversations Notes

By Geert Lovink, October 26, 2007

There is always a sense of sensation when one enters a new intellectual terrain. In this case it is a group of global scholars that work on ‘languages’ from a post-colonial perspective. Much unlike the ordinary believe I am convinced that internet culture is heading in this direction. Much of the conversations here revolve around [...]

I am at the Global Conversations conference at UC Irvine,...

Global Conversations in Irvine, the South-Asia panel

By Geert Lovink, October 25, 2007

I am at the Global Conversations conference at UC Irvine, a Festival of Marginalized Languages where I speak on a ‘technology’ panel about languages and the internet. Let’s blog the event as I walked in, on Thursday morning, October 25 where the South Asia panel had just started when I walked in. Rita Kothari spoke [...]

On Thursday I spoke at a blogging/Web 2.0 event that...

ZKM and the Poverty of (German) Blogging

By Geert Lovink, September 16, 2007

On Thursday I spoke at a blogging/Web 2.0 event that took place at ZKM in Karlsruhe (Germany), the institution known for its baroque new media art installations. Ever since its inception in the early nineties the hierarchical ZKM, preoccupied with high art 3D interfaces, has had a problematic relation with the decentralized and ugly, txt-based [...]

A spectre haunts the world’s intellectual elites: information overload. Ordinary...

Weizenbaum and the Society of the Query

By Geert Lovink, August 22, 2007

A spectre haunts the world’s intellectual elites: information overload. Ordinary people have hijacked strategic resources and are clogging up once carefully policed media channels. Before the Internet, the mandarin classes were able to strictly separate ‘idle talk’ from ‘knowledge’. With the rise of Internet search engines it is no longer possible to easily distinguish between [...]

Speed interview with Geert Lovink By Andrés Lomeña (Málaga, Spain)...

Speed interview with Andrés Lomeña (Málaga)

By Geert Lovink, August 20, 2007

Speed interview with Geert Lovink By Andrés Lomeña (Málaga, Spain) AL: The current idea of just one Net brings to mind the beginnings of computer-mediated communication. In the early days the Internet had many competitors: a lot of mailboxes, intranets and corporations using different protocols were existing while the Internet was hovering out there, in [...]