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(b. 1959, Amsterdam) is a media theorist, net critic, and activist. He studied political science at the University of Amsterdam (MA) and holds a PhD from the University of Melbourne. In 2003 he was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Queensland in Brisbane. In 2004 he was appointed research professor at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam (interactive media) and associate professor at the University of Amsterdam (new media).
Lovink is the founding director of the Institute of Network Cultures that hosts his blog "net critique". His books include Dark Fiber. Tracking Critical Internet Culture (2002), Uncanny Networks. Dialogues with the Virtual Intelligentsia (2002), My First Recession. Critical Internet Culture in Transition (2003), The Principle of Notworking (2005), and Zero Comments: Blogging and Critical Internet Culture (2007).Eurozine Articles
Twelve theses on WikiLeaks
Vindictive, politicized, conspiratorial, reckless: one need not agree with WikiLeaks' modus operandi to acknowledge its service to democracy. Geert Lovink and Patrice Riemens see indications of a new culture of exposure beyond the traditional politics of openness and transparency. [Estonian version added] [more]
MyBrain.net
The colonization of real-time and other trends in Web 2.0
The neurological turn in web criticism exploits the obsession with anything related to the mind and consciousness. Geert Lovink turns the discussion to the politics of network architecture, exploring connections between the colonization of real-time and the rise of the national web. [more]
The society of the query and the Googlization of our lives
A tribute to Joseph Weizenbaum
"There is only one way to turn signals into information: through interpretation", wrote the computer critic Joseph Weizenbaum. As Google's hegemony over online content increases, argues Geert Lovink, we should stop searching and start questioning. [more]
Blogging, the nihilist impulse
Instead of presenting blog entries as mere self-promotion, we should interpret them as decadent artefacts that remotely dismantle the broadcast model. Geert Lovink formulates a theory of weblogs that goes beyond the usual rhetoric of citizen journalism. [more]
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