Capitalism, War, and the Violence of Digital Platforms: A Conversation with Geert Lovink
A critical reflection on platform brutality, exhausted imaginaries, and the uneasy search for collective exits from digital dependency.
Geert Lovink
Geert Lovink is a Dutch media theorist, internet critic and author of many books, including Stuck on the Platform (2022), Sad by Design (2019), Organisation after Social Media (with Ned Rossiter, 2018), Social Media Abyss (2016), Zero Comments (2007), Dark Fiber (2002). Almost all these books have been translated into German, Italian and Spanish. Geert Lovink got his BA and MA in Social and Political Sciences from the University of Amsterdam in 1984 and did his PhD at the English Department, Media & Communication Program at the University of Melbourne (2002). From 2007-2017 he was Professor of Media Theory at the European Graduate School, and from 2004-2012, an associate professor in the digital cultures program of Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam. In 2004 he founded the Institute of Network Cultures, which organises conferences, publications and research networks such as Video Vortex (online video), The Future of Art Criticism and MoneyLab (internet-based revenue models in the arts). Recent projects deal with digital publishing experiments, critical meme research, participatory hybrid events and precarity in the arts.
