Blog about endangered Delhi settlement

By Geert Lovink, March 28, 2006

Monica Narula of the new media centre Sarai in Delhi has written the following call about the eviction of a settlement in Delhi where one of Sarai’s media labs (called Cybermohalla) is based: Dear friends, Over last 35 years we have seen many an internal dislocation of habitations and life worlds within the city of [...]

This is the code word for the research that I...

Blogging, the Nihilist Impulse

By Geert Lovink, March 24, 2006

This is the code word for the research that I have been doing over the past months, while based in Berlin at the Wissenschaftskolleg, the Institute of Advanced Study. Next week I will give an internal presentation on this topic for the 40 Wiko fellows and staff. Every fellow has to do such a presentation [...]

As a part of the Tesla Netzkultur dialogue series that...

Discussion on Iraqi blogs with Catherine David

By Geert Lovink, March 22, 2006

As a part of the Tesla Netzkultur dialogue series that take place in Podewil, Berlin, hosted by Andreas Broeckmann (Transmediale), I discussed Iraqi blogs and related sites with curator Catherine David, who is, like me, a 2005-2006 fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg. After showing the usual sites such as Streamtime, Iraq Blog Count and Salam Pax. [...]

At Meet the Media Guru last Thursday in Milan, Franco...

Response of Bifo on my blogging & nihilism theses

By Geert Lovink, March 22, 2006

At Meet the Media Guru last Thursday in Milan, Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi gave a response to my theory of blogs. After returning to Bologna Bifo wrote down the following notes: Geert has read some pages from “Internet non è il paradiso” (the not so beautiful translation of the much more intelligent: My First Recession). I [...]

Today I worked on an email interview with Daniele Miggiono...

Interview for Mentelocale.it (Daniele Miggino)

By Geert Lovink, March 20, 2006

Today I worked on an email interview with Daniele Miggiono (Genova), who sent me a number of questions via email for the Mentelocale website. Here is the interview. It deals with the changes over the past decade in net culture. The Italian translation can be found here.

Op vrijdagmiddag 24 februari 2006 vond in de Amsterdamse Club...

Bloggend bouwen, essay over Internet en stedebouw in NL

By Geert Lovink, March 9, 2006

Op vrijdagmiddag 24 februari 2006 vond in de Amsterdamse Club 11 de conferentie Suburban scenario’s plaats, georganiseerd door Citythoughts. Onderwerp was verdichting van de Randstad en op welke manier kunstenaars en critici aankijken tegen het steeds verder dichtslibben van Nederland. De publicatie is nu online verkrijgbaar als pdf op www.citythoughts.nl. Ik heb een mijn eigen, [...]

Boardroom with a View

By Geert Lovink, March 8, 2006

Over the weekend I have been to Banff, Canada, for the first ever meeting of the Banff New Media Institute advisory board. It’s early days for new director, Susan Kennard, who recently took over from the legendary Sara Diamond, who built and established this famous training and leadership instute, up in the Rocky Mountains. Susan [...]

Kole, a Nigerian now studying in New York pointed me...

The Rise of the Nigerian Blogger

By Geert Lovink, March 7, 2006

Kole, a Nigerian now studying in New York pointed me at The Blogger As Nemesis by Adebayo Williams. He writes: “Of all the dangers threatening the post-colonial state in Nigeria, none is more debilitating and potentially more devastating than the rise of the Nigerian blogger. Using tactics and electronics normally associated with advance espionage, taking [...]

Today I finished an online interview, conducted by Andre Mesquita...

Speed interview, conducted by Andre Mesquita (Brazil)

By Geert Lovink, March 7, 2006

Today I finished an online interview, conducted by Andre Mesquita from Brazil. It’s about tactical media, activism and art. Andre Mesquita contacted me in Orkut. He’s writing a thesis at the University of Sao Paolo about culture jamming art and activism in 90’s. Andre intends “to make a study of interventions and performances of artists [...]

Victor Fowler Calzada, the Head of Publications of the Cuban...

“I am into quality theory.”

By Geert Lovink, March 7, 2006

Victor Fowler Calzada, the Head of Publications of the Cuban International School of Film and Television asked me to repond to a thesis for Miradas, their electronic magazine. Their next issue will be focused on the impact of new technologies on recent audiovisual creations. This is what I wrote: What stroke me today, reading the [...]