Pdf in english pdf in dutch epub in english and dutch readme. Critical internet culture masterclass with geert lovink s. The role of social media in the 2011 egyptian revolution. Were sometimes woken up by social media scandals and disruptions, which are political and social in nature, but the technology part. Lovink thinks we have entered a postsnowden era of media. Edited by geert lovink and soenke zehle incommunicado reader reader. In 2004 he founded the institute of network cultures at the amsterdam university of applied sciences.
We do that with a new website that is ready for tablets and smart phones and with a list of wishes in terms of our method and thematic priorities. He shows how attempts to design sites to solve these problems have, in their studied efforts to be apolitical, been unable to generate either a serious critique or legitimate alternatives. Polity publishes some of the worlds leading thinkers and many of our authors are major figures in their fields. Geert lovink strides into the frenzied social media debate with social media abyss the fifth volume of his ongoing investigation into critical internet culture. Geert is a dutch forename of germanic origin, equivalent to german gerd and english gerry. Geert lovink is a renowned media theorist, internet critic and author of zero comments 2007, networks without a cause 2012 and social media abyss 2016. Focusing on early social media in the arts and humanities and on the core role of creative computer scientists, artists, and scholars in shaping the preweb social media landscape, social media archeology and poetics documents social media. Controversy about the internet seems to be the exception. Geert lovink, my first recession, critical internet. Sad by design offers a critical analysis of the growing social media controversies such as fake news, toxic viral memes and online addiction. Geert lovink interviews an international group of artists, critics, and theorists on aesthetic, cultural, and political aspects of new media. Geert tribute to general intellect benedetto vecchi. The dcrlinterviewseries questions the term digital cultures is allencompassing and at the same time vague. Ive even been known to blurb the scholarly works of geert lovink.
Geert lovink, institute of network cultures, amsterdam this examination of the succession of postwar avantgardes and collectives is new, important, and engaged. Other readers will always be interested in your opinion of the books youve read. For geert lovink, interviews are imaginative texts that can help to create global, networked discourses not only among different professions but. Our cult of sentimentality manifests itself inside specific apps. Geert lovink interviews tjebbe van tijen for open, cahier on art and the public domain, no. Geert lovink turns the discussion to the politics of network architecture, exploring connections between the colonization of realtime and the rise of the national web. The pdf you are reading is an electronic version of a physical book that can be. Lovink doesnt just submit to the empty soul of 247 communication but rather provides the reader with radical alternatives. As theorist, activist and net critic, lovink has made an effort in helping to shape the. The failed search for a grand design has resulted in depoliticised internet studies unable to generate either radical critique or a search for alternatives.
Addie wagenknecht i dont feel like writing what i have just written, nor do i feel like. Contents geert lovink the art of watching databases. Geert lovinks most popular book is networks without a cause. Ben grosser geert lovink dialogue on media art in the age of platform capitalism. Social media abyss, critical internet culture and the force of negation by geert lovink you know who reads this kind of stuff. Julie alexander has documented the burnouts, panic attacks and other mental health issues of youtubes top creators. This reader is a collection of critical texts dealing with the rapidly emerging world of. Free cooperations in p2p networks interviews net art networking p2p during the latest video vortex meeting organized by the institute for network culture in amsterdam at club 11, the large networkers community met to analyze how video and other materials are shared through the net. Geert lovink, sabine niederer, video vortex reader. Whether youve loved the book or not, if you give your honest and detailed thoughts then people will find new books that are right for them.
Geert lovink analyzes the problems of toxic viral memes, online addiction, and the lure of fake news. This reader is a collection of critical research into the creative industries. Geert lovink, soenke zehle, incommunicado reader by oda. Will meyer is a young person without many accomplishments to boast about in a writer s bio. Please read our short guide how to send a book to kindle. The telekommunist manifesto is largely a cutup, a reworking of texts ive produced and coproduced over the last few years. Or, to vary the frame of reference, the ebullient schizo era of anything could happen gave way to the paranoid reaction. Tactical biopolitics art, activism, and technoscience edited by beatriz da costa and kavita philip don at ion m a r k e t d em a n d li t ig at ion c on t r act tissue inves t men t p ri c e l. Jan 28, 2020 ben grossergeert lovink dialogue on media art in the age of platform capitalism. Geert lovink born 1959, amsterdam is the founding director of the institute of network.
Since 2004 he is a researcher in the school for communication and media design at the amsterdam university of applied sciences hva where he is the coordinator of the institute of network. Below you will find the introduction to my first and so far only paper collection of interviews, uncanny net works, dialogues with the virtual intelligentsia, which. Social media abyss by geert lovink overdrive rakuten. The internet of things by rob van kranenburg wired. Geert lovink born 1959, amsterdam is the founding director of the institute of network cultures, whose goals are to explore, document and feed the potential for socio.
Jan 07, 2020 ben grossergeert lovink dialogue on media art in the age of platform capitalism. The highs and lows of melancholy are coded into social media platforms. Social media abyss plunges into the paradoxical condition of the new digital normal versus a lived state of emergency. He examines the symbiotic yet problematic relation between networks and social movements, and further develops the notion of organized networks. The book departs from the recognition that new media has reached a second phase of maturation, after wikileaks and the arab spring demonstrated the politically crucial dimension of the internet. The society of the query and the googlization of our lives a tribute to joseph weizenbaum. Social media abyss, critical internet culture and the force. Critical internet culture masterclass with geert lovink. We ve asked writers, researchers, theorists, artists, programmers, and others to pick. Geert lovink born 1959, amsterdam is the founding director of the institute of network cultures, whose goals are to explore, document and feed the potential for socioeconomical change of the new media field through events, publications and open dialogue. Selfie culture is one of many lovinks topics, along with the internet obsession of american writer jonathan franzen, the internet in uganda, the aesthetics of anonymous and an anatomy of the bitcoin religion. Logistical media and the second machine age in a recent panel on living and dead labor at a conference in new york city, respondent doug henwood delivered a series of salvos on why he finds cultural theorists so deficient in their comprehension of contemporary labor struggles.
Tactical biopolitics art, activism, and technoscience edited by beatriz da costa and kavita philip don at ion m a r k e t d em a n d li t ig at ion c on t r act tissue inves t men t p ri c e l ab or ris k s me d i. Geert sad by design the essay institute of network cultures. Jan 06, 2020 media theorist and internet activist geert lovink formulates a theory of weblogs that goes beyond the usual rhetoric of citizens journalism. Books by geert lovink author of networks without a cause. The right of geert lovink to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by. The inc reader series are derived from conference contributions and produced by the institute of network cultures. Geert lovink s most popular book is networks without a cause.
The video vortex reader is the fourth publication in this series. Ben grossergeert lovink dialogue on media art in the age of platform capitalism. Capitalisms got a mad crush on collaboration witness all the new business models based on collaboration studies and expensive corporate groupware, or the billions spent on youtube but beneath all the flirtation, capitalism needs to stay in control. Do you concern yourself with new media and technology. First person accounts by pioneers in the field, classic essays, and new scholarship document the collaborative and creative practices of early social media. Geert lovink calls for us to embrace the engineered intimacy of social media, messenger apps and selfies, because boredom is the first stage of overcoming platform nihilism. The notebook features an introduction by journalist and writer sean dodson. Geert lovink, sabine niederer, the telekommunist manifesto. Lovink earned his masters degree in political science at the university of amsterdam, holds a phd from the university of. Geert lovink ned rossiter organization minor compositions. Social media abyss, edited by geert lovink, cambridge, uk and malden, uk. Geert lovink has 48 books on goodreads with 1430 ratings. This spring our institute of network cultures celebrates its 10th anniversary.
Collectivism after modernism by blake stimson overdrive. Geert lovink born 1959, amsterdam is a research professor of interactive media at the hogeschool van amsterdam hva, a professor of media theory at the european graduate school, and an associate professor of new media at the university of amsterdam uva. Series and theory on demand, can be downloaded as a pdf for free. Uvadare digital academic repository the art of watching. In the instance of the egyptian revolution, individuals have always had their beliefs and the ideas, social networks were a platform for people to connect and raise their voice for a social change. Social media abyss, critical internet culture and the. There is only one way to turn signals into information, through interpretation, wrote the computer critic joseph weizenbaum. The pronunciation of the name varies slightly, depending on whether or not the. Geert lovink and ned rossiter eds, mycreativity reader. The name is a condensed form of gerard, itself a combination of the germanic words ger spear and hard strong or brave meaning strong or brave with the spear. Geert lovink and yuk hui digital objects and metadata schemes a tongueincheek prototype of a chinese computer keyboard, the first to feature one key per character instead of the multiple hidden commands required to type chinese on qwerty and wubi keyboards.
In his editorial for american quarterlys 2006 special issue on technology, siva vaidhyanathan invited american studies scholars to grapple with the strong influences of technofundamentalismthe misguided faith in. Geert mak has 45 books on goodreads with 29026 ratings. After all the clicking, browsing, swiping and liking, all we are left with is the flat and empty aftermath of time lost to the app. Geert lovink and sabine niederer producer of this publication. Geert lovink, dynamics of critical internet culture by oda. Geert lovink is a dutch media theorist, internet critic, and author of uncanny networks 2002, dark fiber 2002, my first recession 2003, zero comments 2007, networks without a cause 2012, and social media abyss 2016. Download as pdf with great sadness the news reached us today via patrice riemens of the death of the italian general intellect writer benedetto vecchi. If were all watching cats flushing toilets, what arent we reading. Im thankful to geert lovink for his recent provocation on this question.