Interview: Digital Lockdown with Geert Lovink by Jess Henderson

By Geert Lovink, October 30, 2020

(published in the No Fun Mag, October 28, 2020) Jess Henderson: As I write to you in August 2020, you are on vacation in a depopulated rural area and pretty much offline for the majority of the day. The limited internet access you have there must mutate your regular relationship to being online, one I [...]

Preface of the Chinese translation of Social Media Abyss (Geert Lovink, 2016)

By Geert Lovink, October 22, 2020

I am proud to announce the publication of my first Chinese translation: Social Media Abyss from 2016, originally published in English by Polity Press, with other translations in Italian, German, Russian and Spanish. The book is published by the Institute of Network Society, which is part of the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou. I [...]

We Are Not Sick’s Theory-Music Album Sad by Design

By Geert Lovink, September 13, 2020

On Saturday night September 12, 2020, John Longwalker and Geert Lovink (‘We Are Not Sick’) launched their theory-music album Sad by Design in OT 301 in Amsterdam (info on the event here: http://ot301.nl/agenda/9908). The event was organized by Amsterdam Alternative. You can watch the performance here, including the Q&A with Geert Lovink and John Longwalker, [...]

A Conversation with Geert Lovink by Tommaso Campagna

By Geert Lovink, September 11, 2020

A Conversation with Geert Lovink by Tommaso Campagna (This interview was conducted on June 25, 2020 in the HvA main building as part of the intern report for the research master Mediastudies/University of Amsterdam. Tommaso was an intern at the Institute of Network Cultures in 2019/2020 and participated in the Making Public/Urgent Publishing research program) [...]

Yuk Hui: In Memory of Bernard Stiegler

By Geert Lovink, August 9, 2020

In Memory of Bernard How could I believe that Bernard has already left us? It is true that Bernard has left, but I don’t believe and will not believe. Since I woke up on the 7th of August and read about the death of Bernard, I listened to his voice on radio and I felt [...]

Delete Your Profile, Not People, Comment on Cancel Culture

By Geert Lovink, August 5, 2020

by Geert Lovink (official version first published on Eurozine, August 5, 2020) “The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he’s in prison.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky Nobody and nothing seems safe. “Cremated” eye shadow? Canceled. The Dalai Lama? Canceled. Israel? Canceled. Novelty Internet Rappers? Canceled, recanceled, and then [...]

Geert Lovink text archive (1999-2010) transferred to INC

By Geert Lovink, June 28, 2020

The dilemma is an old one: should one spread one’s legacy here and there in order to minimize risks to lose the information all at once or rather centralize the archives to make sure that the scattered bits and pieces do not disappear unnoticed? In my case the pendulum is swinging back. After the Bilwet/Adilkno [...]

Sad by Design Essay in Turkish & Interview with Red Thread

By Geert Lovink, May 12, 2020

I am proud to announce that my Sad by Design essay has been translated into Turkish: http://red-thread.org/mutsuzlugu-tasariminda. It was published in the 5th issue of the Red Thread web magazine, published out of Belgrade and Istanbul. Here the table of content and introduction of the current issue on “Alt-Truths and Insta-Realities: The Psychopolitics of Contemporary [...]

Ben Grosser-Geert Lovink Dialogue on Media Art in the Age of Platform Capitalism

By Geert Lovink, April 23, 2020

US new media artist Ben Grosser and I met at the 2013 Unlike Us #3 Institute of Network Cultures event in Amsterdam where he presented his Demetricator, a free web browser extension that hides all the metrics on Facebook. I have followed his work ever since. We got in contact again in 2019 when he [...]

remarks on corona video witness accounts

By Geert Lovink, April 22, 2020

I have been limiting my news intake since week 2 of the corona crisis, saving it up for the evening, when I read the physical papers (Het Parool and NRC) and we watch the traditional 8 o’clock national news at NPO1, a Dutch habit I must have lost some 30 years ago. Around week 3 [...]