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Geert Lovink

(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).



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Geert Lovink, Patrice Riemens

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]

30.11.2011


Geert Lovink

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]

22.07.2010


Geert Lovink

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]

17.02.2009


Geert Lovink

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]

10.07.2007


 

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The EU: Broken or just broke?

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Brought on by the global economic recession, the eurocrisis has been exacerbated by serious faults built into the monetary union. In a new Eurozine focal point, contributors discuss whether the EU is not only broke, but also broken -- and if so, whether Europe's leaders are up to the task of fixing it. [more]

European histories (2): Concord and conflict

http://www.eurozine.com/comp/focalpoints/eurohistories2.html
Broadening the question of a common European narrative beyond the East-West divide. How are contested interpretations of historical and recent events activated in the present, uniting and dividing European societies? [more]

Changing media -- Media in change

Media change is about more than just the "newspaper crisis" and the iPad: property law, privacy, free speech and the functioning of the public sphere are all affected. On a field experiencing profound and constant transformation. [more]

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Katajun Amirpur
Islam and democracy
The history of an approximation

http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2011-12-19-amirpur-en.html
In Iran, official revolutionary dogma has obliged "post-Islamist" philosophers to provide profound justifications for Islam's compatibility with democracy. Katajun Amirpur puts contemporary Iranian thinking on religion and politics in the context of Khomeini-era anti-westernism. [more]

Per Wirten
Where were you when Europe fell apart?

Too many Europeans have too long avoided the question of Europe, says Swedish writer Per Wirten. To prevent the EU from turning into a "post-democratic regime of bureaucrats", intellectuals need to stop mumbling and take the fear of Europe seriously. [more]

Valeriu Nicolae
Change must start from within
Roma integration: EU rhetoric and institutional reality

European member states are answerable to the European Commission regarding the integration of Roma. But what are the chances of national policies succeeding if structural anti-Roma racism exists within European institutions themselves? [more]

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Europe talks to Europe

http://www.eurozine.com/comp/europetalkstoeurope.html
Nationalism in Belgium might be different from nationalism in Ukraine, but if we want to understand the current European crisis and how to overcome it we need to take both into account. The debate series "Europe talks to Europe" is an attempt to turn European intellectual debate into a two-way street. [more]

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Steve Sem-Sandberg
Even nameless horrors must be named

http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2011-09-23-semsandberg-en.html
It is high time to lift the aesthetic state of emergency that has surrounded witness literature for so long, writes Steve Sem-Sandberg. It is not important who writes, nor even what their motives are. What counts is the "literary efficiency". [more]

Literary perspectives
The re-transnationalization of literary criticism

Eurozine's series of essays aims to provide an overview of diverse literary landscapes in Europe. Covered so far: Croatia, Sweden, Austria, Estonia, Ukraine, Northern Ireland, Slovenia, the Netherlands and Hungary. [more]

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Mykola Riabchuk
Tymoshenko: Wake-up call for the EU

The EU shouldn't be surprised by the Tymoshenko verdict: its support of anything nominally reformist has been perceived as acceptance of a range of repressions, argues Mykola Riabchuk. [more]

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Eurozine emerged from an informal network dating back to 1983. Since then, European cultural magazines have met annually in European cities to exchange ideas and experiences. Around 100 journals from almost every European country are now regularly involved in these meetings.
Changing media, Media in change
The 23rd European Meeting of Cultural Journals
Linz, 13-16 May 2011

http://www.eurozine.com/comp/linz2011.html
The 23rd European Meeting of Cultural Journals took place in Linz, Austria, in May 2011. Under the heading "Changing media, Media in change", the conference explored the challenges and transformations facing media in the wake of the digital revolution. [more]

Multimedia     click for more

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Multimedia section including videos of past Eurozine conferences in Vilnius (2009) and Sibiu (2007). [more]


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