Geert Lovink

Geert Lovink is a media theorist and Internet critic, based in Brisbane, Australia. He is the founder of numerous Internet projects such as the Nettime and Fibreculture mailing lists. He is the co-organizer of conferences like Next Five Minutes and Tulipomania-Dotcom (Amsterdam), Dark Markets (Vienna) and Crisis Media (Delhi). The MIT Press recently published his writing on critical Internet culture 'Dark Fiber' and 'Uncanny Networks,' a collection of his interviews. In October 2003 V2 Publishing will bring out his latest study on Internet culture My First Recession. http://www.laudanum.net/geert

Out-Cooperating the Empire? - Exchange with Christoph Spehr

Exchange between Geert Lovink and Christoph Spehr on Creative Labour and the Hybrid Work of Cooperation

http://www.networkcultures.org/geer ... ith-christoph-spehr/

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Book Description

Capitalism's got a mad crush on collaboration--witness all the new

business models based on "collaboration studies" and expensive corporate groupware, or the billions spent on YouTube – but beneath all the flirtation, capitalism needs to stay in control. As long as the process of collaboration is controlled by external interests, the relationship will always be one of forced cooperation. And though it's way more challenging (for the participants and in terms of resistance), free cooperation will always be a lot sexier than forced cooperation.

Inspired by the collaborative models of the open-source software movement, Rosa Luxemburg Award-winning German writer Christoph Spehr, Howard Rheingold, Brian Holmes and the editors critique both the received capitalist and socialist methods of social integration, and elaborate a practical vision for a third alternative, one that promises to surmount the problems of inequality on the one hand and the lack of individual freedoms on the other. Part utopian intervention, part radical polemic and activist manual, The Art of Free Cooperation also includes a DVD with additional texts, highlights from an international "Free Cooperation" conference, and a feature-length film collage, narrated by Tony Conrad, illustrating the principles of Free Cooperation through the visual

language of science fiction.

About the Author Trebor Scholz works both collaboratively and individually as an artist, writer, activist, and organizer. He is the founder of the Institute for Distributed Creativity (IDC), and is professor and researcher in the Department of Media Study at the SUNY Buffalo.

Geert Lovink, a Dutch media theorist living in Australia, is author of Dark Fiber, Uncanny Networks and My First Recession. He is a member of the Adilkno collective (Cracking the Movement, The Media Archive) and co-founder of internet projects such as The Digital City, Nettime, Fibreculture and Incommunicado. He is founder and director of the Institute of Network Cultures. Product Details

• Paperback: 208 pages

• Publisher: Autonomedia / Institute for Distributed Creativity; Pap/DVD edition (March 1, 2007)

• Language: English

• ISBN-10: 1570271771

• ISBN-13: 978-1570271779

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Von Thomas Kalka, 25. Juni 2007, 22:01 Uhr

Bin gerade über dieses Buch <http://www.amazon.com/Art-Free-Coop ... 06318&amp;sr=8-2&gt; von Christoph Spehr, Howard Rheingold, Brian Holmes , Trebor Scholz (Editor) und Geert Lovink (Editor) gestolpert:

Inspired by the collaborative models of the open-source software movement, Rosa Luxemburg Award-winning German writer Christoph Spehr, Howard Rheingold, Brian Holmes and the editors critique both the received capitalist and socialist methods of social integration, and elaborate a practical vision for a third alternative, one that promises to surmount the problems of inequality on the one hand and the lack of individual freedoms on the other. Part utopian intervention, part radical polemic and activist manual, /The Art of Free Cooperation// /also includes a DVD with additional texts, highlights from an international "Free Cooperation" conference, and a feature-length film collage, narrated by Tony Conrad, illustrating the principles of Free Cooperation through the visual language of science fiction.

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Geert Lovink sieht in seiner Theorie des Bloggens (Teil seines Buches "Zero Comments", Routledge NY, 2007) eher den massiv nach innen gerichteten Blick des "Tagebuchführens" als die journalistischen Kategorien wie "Wahrheit", "Nachricht" oder "Bericht". Nach dem 11. September schlossen Blogs die Lücke zwischen dem Netz und der Gesellschaft. Es waren die Blogs, die weltweit die Demokratisierung des Netzes verwirklichten.

Dagegen trägt jeder neue Blog seinen Teil zum Untergang des Mediensystems bei, das einst das 20. Jahrhundert dominierte. Der Glaube an eine Botschaft nimmt immer mehr ab. Das ist das nihilistische Moment der Bewegung und Blogs fördern diese Kultur wie keine andere Plattform vor ihnen. Blogsoftware unterstützt in Wirklichkeit Nutzer dabei, den Schritt von der Wahrheit zum Nichts zu gehen. Die gedruckte und gesendete Botschaft hat ihre Aura verloren. Nachrichten werden als Waren konsumiert, die einen gewissen Unterhaltungswert besitzen.

Anstatt Blogs immer wieder von neuem als Instrumente der Selbstvermarktung zu präsentieren, sollten sie vielmehr als dekadente Artefakte interpretiert werden, die aus der Ferne die verführerische Macht der Sendeanstalten demontieren ohne ein alternatives Modell anzubieten, meint Geert Lovink.

Geert Lovink ist Medientheoretiker, Internetkritiker und Autor von "Uncanny Networks", "Dark Fiber", "My First Recession" und "Zero Comments". Er organisiert Konferenzen und ist Mitbegründer von Internetprojekten wie "nettime" und "fibreculture". Seit 2004 leitet er das Institute of Network Cultures, Hogeschool van Amsterdam und ist Professor für mediastudies/new media an der Universität von Amsterdam.

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