geert lovink
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Read More: #75, no time for foolsI write and post this #100hardtruths on April Fool’s Day, 2017. Given this effort’s focus on deception, fakery, falsity, the untrue, the almost true, trickery, slander, and shams of all…
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Read More: #55, choose to be digitally productive rather than reactive
In 5 #hardtruths and 2 new pledges @#50 I wrote: “Producing internet content, rather than simply consuming or sharing it, feels productive; in this time of desolation and destruction, good…
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Read More: #53, tame and disarm dangerous algorithmsGeert Lovink shared this hardtruth with me from his yet to be published paper, “Overcoming the Disillusioned Internet—Discussing Principles of Meme Design.” “There is a crisis of ‘participatory culture.’ Let’s…
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Read More: Why Don’t I Blog? On Internet Cultural Production in 2016I started blogging here on August 21, 2007. At first, it was exhilarating and challenging. Blogging helped introduce me to a robust and complex life online. On May 29, 2012,…
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Read More: Of Labor Lost: Name the EnemyI’m in Boulder Colorado, teaching a summer course on Feminist and Queer Documentary in their film program. My class on Tuesday—on Talking Heads Feminist Labor films—was nothing if not queer:…
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Read More: Blog/Book Theory: On/By Jodi Dean
“An object whose form installs delays in sampling and syndication and whose content demands postponed gratification, the book mobilizes the gap of mediacy so as to stimulate thought. E-books and…
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Read More: Networks with a Cause: Critical Lovink“Forget the browser: real-time is the new crack.” (this and all following quotes by Geert Lovink) Next up on my private pursuit of the longue durree, the slow form of…
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Read More: Why Do I Blog? On (almost) 5 Years
I first blogged about five years ago (on August 21, 2007) following the always astute advise of Yvonne Welbon who was, at that time, producing a feature documentary I was…
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Read More: Video DadaI drove out to UC Irvine with the kids to catch the Video Dada show (“dealing with intersections of video, art, and the internet.”) Martha Gever, the show’s curator, was…