Posts By: Geert Lovink

Jackson Palmer: Cryptocurrency is an Inherently Right-Wing, Hyper-Capitalistic Technology

By Geert Lovink, July 27, 2021

Jackson Palmer’s Concluding Twitter Thread on the Dark Sides of Crypto Currency, July 14, 2021 I am often asked if I will “return to cryptocurrency” or begin regularly sharing my thoughts on the topic again. My answer is a wholehearted “no”, but to avoid repeating myself I figure it might be worthwhile briefly explaining why [...]

Program of MoneyLab #12 Wellington: Viral Tokenization

By Geert Lovink, May 21, 2021

On 4 and 5 June, 2021 Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington will host the 12th edition of the international MoneyLab conference series in collaboration with the Institute of Network Cultures (Amsterdam, NL) and the MoneyLab community. Look for latest updates on the special event website: http://moneylab-wellington.nz/ MoneyLab is an international multi-disciplinary network of artists, designers, programmers, researchers and journalists. [...]

Emanuele Braga/Macao: The Dream of Income

By Geert Lovink, May 2, 2021

THE DREAM OF INCOME AND THE NIGHTMARE OF THE END OF WORK Income without conditions, mythological animals, platforms and privatized planets By Emanuele Braga/Macao Armed with spray cans we’ve been writing on banners in the squares the word INCOME! It has been at least a decade that we have declined and deepened in various directions [...]

Link list on NFTs, crypto art, blockchain and other MoneyLab issues (part 11)

By Geert Lovink, April 25, 2021

Jonathan Zittrain & Will Marks: Enjoy Complexity-What Critics Don’t Understand About NFTs https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/04/nfts-show-value-owning-unownable/618525/ Dror Polen: NFTs and the Future of Work https://www.drorpoleg.com/nfts-and-the-future-of-work/ “Thousands of store owners who had taken out loans and invested hopes and money in the industry’s future lost their shirts, drowning in unsold inventory; nine out of ten comics stores collapsed by [...]

MoneyLab #11 Discussion on Community Currencies, Social Capital & Basic Income 

By Geert Lovink, April 16, 2021

With VALENTIN Seehausen, JULIO Linares and BLANKA Vay, moderated by INTE Gloerich.   Saturday March 27, 2021 11.00am-11:45PM CET (online) Transcribed by Lara Luna Bartley (l.lunabartley@gmail.com) INTE: (INC, with MoneyLab since 2016): Why are we talking about this? Community currencies and basic income has been Moneylab topics since the beginning. What is relevant now (during the pandemic)? [...]

MoneyLab#11 Chat during NFT/Crypto Art Debate

By Geert Lovink, March 29, 2021

The Discord chat below ran parallel to the MoneyLab #11 session MONEY TALKS – A Participatory Online Debate on Crypto Art & NFTs on Friday night March 26, 2021. What are NFTs, why do people get excited by them and what are the controversies they spark? Why are they interesting, what possibilities do they open [...]

MoneyLab#11 pitch on on Financialization of the University 

By Geert Lovink, March 29, 2021

Stephen Hastings-King on Financialization of the University For the MoneyLab #11: Disaster Capitalism Friday Session, Community Call-in: Across the Time Zones, March 29, 2021. My partner Kelly Grotke and I are the Pattern Recognition Collective. Kelly specialized in 18-19th c. Germany; myself in post-1945 France, history of the Left. While researching my book on Socialisme [...]

Materials of the String Figures @MoneyLab#11 Workshop

By Geert Lovink, March 29, 2021

String Figures is a project developed by Ailie Rutherford and Bettina Nissen to allow activist, feminist and creative groups working for social justice to support and strengthen each other’s work through de-centralised open-source networks centred on a principle of mutual care. This mapping process can be used with local and translocal collectives looking to further [...]

Call for ML to organize fin. support for migrants on Samos

By Geert Lovink, March 29, 2021

(this is the text presented at the Friday night open session of MoneyLab #11 by  jo@xs4all.nl) Hi, I am extremely happy to join Money Lab for the first time! My name is Jo van der Spek, coordinator of the Migrant 2 Migrant Foundation, sponsor of free communication *by* migrants. I would like to introduce a [...]

Fabiano Martucci reporting on Monetary Experiments (ML#11)

By Geert Lovink, March 28, 2021

REPORT OF BLOCK 2: MONETARY EXPERIMENTS Saturday March 27, 2021, 11.00am-11:45am CET Community Currencies, Social Capital & Basic IncomeDiscussion with Valentin Seehausen, Julio Linares, Blanka Vay, moderated by Inte Gloerich. By Fabiano Martucci On Day 2 MoneyLab #11 opened its virtual doors to discuss monetary experiments that can create an alternative financial system that support [...]