Geert Lovink
Biographic Data
| ID | 383883 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Geert Lovink |
| GIVEN NAMES | Geert |
| FAMILY NAME | Lovink |
| SIGNATURE | LOVINK G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of Network Cultures |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Copium Compendium: How Do You Cope in this Digital Age of Permacrisis
In this era of digital permacrisis, users grapple with feelings of depletion and boredom, exacerbated by the loss of inner self and online disconnection. The question is: how do you cope? The concept of “copium” emerges as a quasi-drug that causes temporary numbness in a 24/7 online world. Copium resonates with a deeper nihilism and a quest for purpose in an increasingly indifferent world. The “whatever” state, characterized by an inability to fe…
Art under Neoliberalism
Apart from the longstanding and much-debated problem of art's commodification, how does neoliberalism transform and determine the conditions of artistic practice? Further, if neoliberalism is a substantially distinct stage in the history of capitalism, and not merely its intensification, what are the implications of this new condition for the practice and criticism of contemporary art? What does it mean to practice and theorize art, to be an arti…
Principles of Stacktivism
In this essay a new form of Internet activism is proposed: stacktivism. Building on hacktivist practices, this form of code and standard development as political struggle is envisioned to connect different layers of the techno-protological stack (also known as the Internet) in order build bridges between different, still isolated institutional levels and disciplinary practices such as grassroots wifi-access initiatives, interface design, geeks, c…
Entreprecariat: Everyone Is an Entrepreneur. Nobody Is Safe
Entrepreneur or precarious worker? These are the terms of a cognitive dissonance that turns everyone's life into a shaky project in perennial start-up phase. Silvio Lorusso guides us through the entreprecariat, a world where change is natural and healthy, whatever it may bring. A world populated by motivational posters, productivity tools, mobile offices and self-help techniques. A world in which a mix of entrepreneurial ideology and widespread p…
Kapitel 1: Die Überwindung des desillusionierten Internets
Kapitel 5: Medien Netzwerk Plattform - Drei Architekturen
Kapitel 4: Programmierte Traurigkeit
Einleitung: Die Gesellschaft des Sozialen
Inhalt
Kapitel 2: Die Ideologie der Sozialen Medien
Kapitel 10: Vor dem Aufbau der Avantgarde der Allmende
Bibliographie
Kapitel 7: Chronischer Narzissmus - Technologien des minimalen Selfies
Kapitel 3: Epidemie der Ablenkung - Von der digitalen Utopie zur Entzauberung des technosozialen Raums
Kapitel 9: Meme als Strategie - Europäische Ursprünge und Debatten
Kapitel 6: Von Registrierung zu Auslöschung - Über technische Gewalt
Kapitel 8: Maskendesign - Ästhetik des Gesichtslosen
Digitaler Nihilismus: Thesen Zur Dunklen Seite der Plattformen
Im Bann der Plattformen: Die nächste Runde der Netzkritik
Die digitale Welt im Post-Snowden-Zeitalter: Wir wissen, dass wir unter Überwachung stehen, aber machen weiter, als ob es nichts zu bedeuten hätte. Obwohl Unternehmen wie Facebook, Google und Amazon unsere Privatsphäre immer stärker infiltrieren, bleibt die Nutzung der sozialen Medien ungebrochen - unterstützt durch immer kleinere Geräte, die sich fest in unseren Alltag eingenistet haben. Wir sind hin- und hergeworfen zwischen Angst vor Abhängigk…
Dancing to the Loop: Repetition in Contemporary Music - An Interview with Tilman Baumgärtel
Twelve Theses on WikiLeaks
Twelve Theses on WikiLeaks
“What do I think of WikiLeaks? I think it would be a good idea!” (after Mahatma Gandhi’s famous quip on “Western Civilization”) These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Celebrating the Undiscipline of Cultural Studies
This article is based on an email exchange between media theorist and critic Geert Lovink and former Director of the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland, Professor Graeme Turner. It explores the field of television studies internationally, focusing on the 'nihilist turn'. In the Netherlands, right-wing populist websites and TV shows have been able to set the racist, anti-migration agenda, while in the United S…
In Praise of Concept Production: Formats, Schools, and Nonrepresentational Media Studies
In this chapter, Lovink and Rossiter argue that the field of media studies has yet to develop a theory of itself. Audience studies investigated fandom and the production of meaning, textual analysis preoccupied itself with signification processes attached to content, and political economy turned its gaze on institutional power. Medium theory, while close to the authors' own interests, still falls short, they argue, because it never changed the di…
Media Studies: Diagnostics Of A Failed Merger
According to Geert Lovink, there is no such thing as a “visual culture” that connects film, television, video, and new media. In this chapter, he argues that this mistaken belief has led to the naïve notion that we are all working on the same project, “the media.” In fact, Lovink argues, humanities‐based “media studies” has never had a grip on new media and Internet education. The idea that media are all about images is contradicted by the realit…
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The Data Dandy and Sovereign Media: An Introduction to the Media Theory of ADILKNO
A number of alternative media strategies have developed in Amsterdam, particularly in response to the squatters’ movement of the 1980s; one of their offshoots is the Foundation for the Advancement of Illegal Knowledge (ADILKNO), of which the author is a member. Drawing on ADILKNO’s writings on the subject, the author describes and characterizes various patterns that have emerged out of the city’s alternative media activity, such as the antimedia …
First Monday interviews: Jonathan Peizer
Digital constructivism: What is European software? An exchange between Lev Manovich and Geert Lovink
Voiceover
Essay| August 01 2002 Voiceover Trebor Scholz, Trebor Scholz Trebor Scholzis an East-Berlin-born, Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist and curator who studied at the Whitney Independent Study Program. He exhibits, lectures and curates widely in Europe and the Americas. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Geert Lovink, Geert Lovink Geert Lovinkis a Dutch media theorist and Internet critic, based in Sydney, …
Dark Fiber: Tracking Critical Internet Culture
Net criticism that establishes the principles and foundation for a collaborative, global new media culture.According to media critic Geert Lovink, the Internet is being closed off by corporations and governments intent on creating a business and information environment free of dissent. Calling himself a radical media pragmatist, Lovink envisions an Internet culture that goes beyond the engineering culture that spawned it to bring humanities, user…
Après le boom de la net-économie
Cet article examine l’univers d’Internet après le boom et le crash de la net-économie. Il investigue la façon dont les gourous libertariens et les éditorialistes en vogue répondent à la plongée du NASDAQ en avril 2000. Il examine également le dernier ouvrage de Manuel Castells La galaxie Internet et la position ambivalente de Castells à l’égard de la réalité de la Silicon Valley et de la « bulle » des dotcoms
Le principe d'inconnexion web
partie, sous quelque forme et de quelque manire que ce soit, est interdite sauf accord pralable et crit de l'diteur, en dehors des cas prvus par la lgislation en vigueur en France.Il est prcis que son stockage dans une base de donnes est galement interdit
Einleitung: Stolz und Ehre des Web 2.0
Zero Comments: Elemente einer kritischen Internetkultur
In diesem dritten Band seiner kritischen Studien zur Internetkultur hinterfragt Geert Lovink den jüngsten »Web 2.0«-Hype um Blogs, Wikis oder Netzgemeinschaften. Anstatt den »Bürger-Journalismus« zu idealisieren, untersucht der Autor den »nihilistischen Impuls« der Blogs, etablierte Bedeutungsstrukturen auszuhöhlen und - voller Stolz auf ihren Insider-Charakter - das Verlinken, Indexieren und Ranking zum Hauptantrieb zu erheben. Darüber hinaus be…
Dialogues Carried Out in Silence: An E-mail Exchange
October 01 2008 Dialogues Carried Out in Silence: An E-mail Exchange Alexander R. Galloway, Alexander R. Galloway Alexander R. Galloway is the author of Gaming: Essays on Algorithmic Culture (University of Minnesota Press, 2006), Protocol: How Control Exists After Decentralization (MIT Press, 2004), and coauthor with Eugene Thacker of The Exploit: A Theory of Networks (University of Minnesota Press, 2007). He is a founding member of RSG and teach…
Kommentar: A Few Thoughts About the Netizen 2.0
In Praise of Concept Production: Formats, Schools, and Nonrepresentational Media Studies
In this chapter, Lovink and Rossiter argue that the field of media studies has yet to develop a theory of itself. Audience studies investigated fandom and the production of meaning, textual analysis preoccupied itself with signification processes attached to content, and political economy turned its gaze on institutional power. Medium theory, while close to the authors' own interests, still falls short, they argue, because it never changed the di…
Media Studies: Diagnostics Of A Failed Merger
According to Geert Lovink, there is no such thing as a “visual culture” that connects film, television, video, and new media. In this chapter, he argues that this mistaken belief has led to the naïve notion that we are all working on the same project, “the media.” In fact, Lovink argues, humanities‐based “media studies” has never had a grip on new media and Internet education. The idea that media are all about images is contradicted by the realit…
Twelve Theses on WikiLeaks
Twelve Theses on WikiLeaks
“What do I think of WikiLeaks? I think it would be a good idea!” (after Mahatma Gandhi’s famous quip on “Western Civilization”) These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Celebrating the Undiscipline of Cultural Studies
This article is based on an email exchange between media theorist and critic Geert Lovink and former Director of the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland, Professor Graeme Turner. It explores the field of television studies internationally, focusing on the 'nihilist turn'. In the Netherlands, right-wing populist websites and TV shows have been able to set the racist, anti-migration agenda, while in the United S…
Dancing to the Loop: Repetition in Contemporary Music - An Interview with Tilman Baumgärtel
Im Bann der Plattformen: Die nächste Runde der Netzkritik
Die digitale Welt im Post-Snowden-Zeitalter: Wir wissen, dass wir unter Überwachung stehen, aber machen weiter, als ob es nichts zu bedeuten hätte. Obwohl Unternehmen wie Facebook, Google und Amazon unsere Privatsphäre immer stärker infiltrieren, bleibt die Nutzung der sozialen Medien ungebrochen - unterstützt durch immer kleinere Geräte, die sich fest in unseren Alltag eingenistet haben. Wir sind hin- und hergeworfen zwischen Angst vor Abhängigk…
Kapitel 1: Die Überwindung des desillusionierten Internets
Kapitel 5: Medien Netzwerk Plattform - Drei Architekturen
Kapitel 4: Programmierte Traurigkeit
Einleitung: Die Gesellschaft des Sozialen
Inhalt
Kapitel 2: Die Ideologie der Sozialen Medien
Kapitel 10: Vor dem Aufbau der Avantgarde der Allmende
Political science (21 works) · Art (11 works) · Computer Science (11 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Media studies (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Social Media and Politics (7 works) · Digital Games and Media (6 works) · Humanities (6 works) · Art history (4 works)