Optimist by Nature, Pessimist by Design-Interview with Geert Lovink by Nikita Lin

By Geert Lovink, November 14, 2023

Writing is both thinking and acting. Through writing, we explore and reflect upon the meaningful coherence of words and actions. This conversation between Geert Lovink and Nikita Lin discusses a constructive view of the social network in technologized cultures. It explores the tactics, aesthetic and political, that could help us not only get through breakdowns [...]

Interview with German Media Theorist Vera Tollmann on View from Above

By Geert Lovink, October 11, 2023

In Sicht von oben, ‘Powers of Ten’ und Bildpolitiken der Vertikalität (Spector Books, Leipzig, 2022) German media theorist and curator Vera Tollmann analyses the power aspects of the technical view from above. The context here is not so much the first manned flight with a balloon in 1783 in Paris but the iconic 1968/77 short [...]

Interview with German Media Theorist Annekathrin Kohout about her Book Nerds, K-pop and Cuteness

By Geert Lovink, April 24, 2023

Leipzig-based German media theorist Annekatherin Kohout has written a ‚cultural studies’ history of the nerd figure. Nerds, Eine Popkulturgeschichte was published in 2022 by C.H. Beck in Munich. I was drawn to this study as I’ve been surrounded by nerds, geeks and programmers that have been building and maintaining my dear medium, the internet, over [...]

Turkish Translation: İnternetimizi Geri Almanın Yolu-Platformdan Kaçış

By Geert Lovink, April 17, 2023

(After the German, Italian and Spanish, there is now the Turkish translation of Stuck on the Platform, published by İletişim Yayınları in Istanbul, translated by Memet Ratip) https://iletisim.com.tr/kitap/internetimizi-geri-almanin-yolu/10379 İnternetimizi Geri Almanın YoluPlatformdan Kaçış Geert Lovink order here: https://pandora.com.tr/kitap/internetimizi-geri-almanin-yolu-platformdan-kacis/855194 Uzun yıllardır ağ kültürü ve medya hakkında önemli yayınlar yapan Geert Lovink, İnternetimizi Geri Almanın Yolu: Platformdan [...]

Spanish translation of Stuck on the Platform with Preface by César Rendueles

By Geert Lovink, March 24, 2023

https://www.bellaterra.coop/es/libros/atascados-en-la-plataforma I am proud to announce the Spanish translation of Stuck on the Platform, translated by Matheus Calderón Torres and published by Bellaterra Edicions in Barcelona. I will present the book on June 8, 2023, at CCCB, in dialogue with Joana Moll. More details on this and other related events soon. The Spanish edition has [...]

Interview with Geert Lovink by Teresa Numerico, for Il Manifesto (full version)

By Geert Lovink, March 23, 2023

(This is an email interview, conducted by Teresa Numerico on March 18, 2023, for the Italian daily Il Manifesto, that took place in the context of two book launches of the Italian translation of my book Stuck on the Platform (Le paludi della Piattaforma), published by Nero in Rome., early 2023. A short version of [...]

Italian Translation of Stuck on the Platform & Two Book Launches in Rome

By Geert Lovink, March 18, 2023

Le paludi della piattaforma I am proud to announce the Italian edition of my book Stuck on the Platform (Valiz, 2022), translated by INC’s website designer and Enterprecariat blogger Silvio Lorusso and Clusterduck member Silvia Dal Dosso. Here you can read a review, in Italian, by Philip di Salvo for Il Tascabile. I am doing [...]

Dialogue between Geert Lovink and Aaron Moulton about the Soros Contemporary Arts Network, part II

By Geert Lovink, January 10, 2023

The first part of this email exchange entitled “The Soros Center was a Perfect Machine” appeared in July 2019 in ArtMargins here and occurred on the occasion of the exhibition The Influencing Machine at Galeria Nicodim in Bucharest, curated by Aaron Moulton. The second e-mail exchange took place in March 2022 in preparation for the [...]

Interview with Geert Lovink by Alessandro Sbordoni

By Geert Lovink, December 29, 2022

(original here: https://bluelabyrinths.com/2023/01/02/the-end-of-the-internet-an-interview-with-geert-lovink/) In this interview, I talked with Geert Lovink about his latest essay Extinction Internet, Mark Fisher’s hauntology, the memory of Bernard Stiegler, the XR movement, and the phantoms of accelerationism. Alessandro Sbordoni: Today, platform realism makes us feel like another Internet is no longer possible. In your essay, Extinction Internet, you argue [...]

Harry Halpin & Geert Lovink: Another Social Network is Possible!–On Bernard Stiegler and the Social Media Question

By Geert Lovink, December 28, 2022

(This essay draft was written in late 2021. Due to academic publishing blues, the Bernard Stiegler memorial anthology for which this contribution was written is now supposedly coming out in late 2023 with Bloomsbury. HH & GL) In this tribute to Bernard Stiegler, we highlight an obscure yet important episode in his work: Stiegler’s contribution [...]