Posts By: Geert Lovink

Update on MoneyLab #11 in Berlin (March 26-29, 2021)

By Geert Lovink, March 8, 2021

Update from Ela Kagel (Supermarkt) on MoneyLab Berlin: Disaster Capitalism (March 26-28, 2021) For the latest update of the program, please visit the special event website. When we started to plan for MoneyLab Berlin, it was quite clear that we would not be able to organize a big, real-world conference with people joining from all [...]

Smartphone Documentary: Trust in the Blockchain Society

By Geert Lovink, February 18, 2021

Interactive Documentary Trust in the Blockchain Society explores trust in technologies. The hype is comes and goes. Now is the time to talk about blockchain. The award-winning production studio Submarine Channel and design publisher Archis release an innovative smartphone documentary about blockchain technology and its potential to revolutionize trust in our societies. Trust in the [...]

Link list on GameStop, BTC, blockchain and other MoneyLab issues (part 10)

By Geert Lovink, February 12, 2021

Interview with an Anonymous GameStop Investor https://taibbi.substack.com/p/this-is-for-you-dad-interview-with Meme-swarm and Microtrading by Franco “Bifo” Berardi https://illwilleditions.com/meme-swarm-and-microtrading/ NFTs Will Introduce Crypto To The Mainstream https://andrewsteinwold.substack.com/p/nfts-will-introduce-crypto-to-the Early bitcoin politics: Digital metallism vs Infrastructural mutualism https://theblockchainsocialist.com/what-were-the-early-politics-of-bitcoin-digital-metallism-vs-infrastructural-mutualism/ The “Bitcoin Economy” is Just an Illegal Casino Run by the Mob (via D. Golumbia) http://www.tr0lly.com/bitcoin/the-bitcoin-economy-is-just-an-illegal-casino-run-by-the-mob/#more-1083 More on the Substack Economy and Paid [...]

Update/Join the MoneyLab Community on Discord

By Geert Lovink, February 12, 2021

Dear MoneyLab members, how are you all coping? With six weeks to go to MoneyLab #11 Berlin (March 26-28) we got something exciting to look forward to. The event will be hybrid etc. but it is not yet known to what extend we can also meet in real life at Supermarkt and other locations. Ela [...]

Erik Davis on the Substack Subscription Service

By Geert Lovink, February 5, 2021

(After the Patreon age, we’re now in the midst of the Subtrack era. Below a long quote from the newsletter of my friend Erik Davis, Californian psychedelics expert and cyber theorist. It would be good to find out if any of you are doing Subtrack research and what to make of this next version of [...]

Please Join MoneyLab Zoom GameStop Debate on Feb. 1

By Geert Lovink, January 31, 2021

(If you missed the MoneyLab GameStop debate on Zoom, here’s the video recording. 90 people attended the lively 1:20 min. discussion chaired by Ela Kagel and other members of the MoneyLab board: https://vimeo.com/507592481) Dear MoneyLab community, Over the past weeks the swarm of small-time, amateur investors “revenge buying” stock in GameStop, AMC and other firms [...]

Art for Universal and Unconditional Basic Income Manifesto

By Geert Lovink, January 17, 2021

More on this campaign: https://instituteofradicalimagination.org/2021/01/16/art-for-ubi-manifesto-launching-campaign/. If you want, please sign this petition here. ART FOR UBI (Manifesto) 1/ Universal and Unconditional Basic Income is the best measure for the arts and cultural sector. Art workers claim a basic income, not for themselves, but for everyone. 2/ Do not call UBI any measures that do not [...]

MoneyLab #9 Helsinki videos now available online

By Geert Lovink, December 15, 2020

The team of ML #9 is happy to let you know that the post-production of MoneyLab #9 is now done. After combining materials from the stream and zoom sessions and correcting some faulty bits, the discussions now shine through 🙂 *All key talk sessions as well as are now published at https://moneylab9.m-cult.org/ and https://vimeo.com/mcult *There [...]

Link list on bitcoin & blockchain and other MoneyLab issues (part 9)

By Geert Lovink, October 15, 2020

Hydra darknet plans to operate outside of Russia https://bravenewcoin.com/insights/russian-darknet-marketplace-hydra-launches-dubious-ico Erhard Schuettpelz: review of Katharina Pistor, The Code of Capital https://www.zfmedienwissenschaft.de/online/circulation-revisited-4 One: new Amazon payment system with your palm (via Inte Gloerich) https://one.amazon.com/ Virtual tax havens: How social media platforms are helping tax dodgers hide their loot https://thenewdaily.com.au/finance/finance-news/2020/10/10/tax-evasion-social-media/ Subscription Fatigue https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2020/09/25/Subscription-Overload The Unholy Mix of Porn [...]

MoneyLab #X – Economythologies Scrapbook

By Geert Lovink, October 14, 2020

As part of our program for MoneyLab #X – Economythologies, we are embarking on a community scrapbooking project. Our aim is to develop a patchwork of ideas, images and references that explore the complexities of our contemporary economic imaginary. As the archive accumulates, data analyst and designer Shahee Ilyas will develop a creative response to [...]