Critical Internet Cultures and the Force of Negation
Geert Lovink
- Author(s)
- Geert Lovink
- Publication
- Cambridge : Polity Press, 2016
- Scope
- 248 Pages, 23 cm.
- ISBN
- 9781509507764
In this fifth volume of his ongoing investigations, Dutch media theorist and internet critic Geert Lovink plunges into the paradoxical condition of the new digital normal versus a lived state of emergency. There is a heightened, post-Snowden awareness; we know we are under surveillance but we click, share, rank and remix with a perverse indifference to technologies of capture and cultures of fear. Despite the incursion into privacy by companies like Facebook, Google and Amazon, social media use continues to be a daily habit with shrinking gadgets now an integral part of our busy lives. We are thrown between addiction anxiety and subliminal, obsessive use. Where does art, culture and criticism venture when the digital vanishes into the background?
- Keywords
- data control , digitization , future scenario's , neo liberalism , interactivity - social media , internet - post internet , capitalism
- Location
- Cabinet 11 - 4: Digitale Media & Internet
- Remarks
- . Incl. Notes, Selected Bibliography
