Geert Lovink and Platform Brutality

Geert Lovink joins me in the studio for this new episode of Art in Permacrisis. Geert is a media theorist and the founder of the Institute of Network Cultures. He has a background in the Amsterdam squatting movement, he invented the notion of 'tactical media' several decades ago, and in recent years, he has focused on platform and social media critique. In this episode, we discuss his newest book, Platform Brutality. We talk about the violent turn of the tech overlords, technofeudalism, the question of tactical media today, antifascist figure design, and the special responsibility of art.

LINKS & REFERENCES

Platform Brutality: Closing Down Internet Toxicity: https://valiz.nl/en/publications/platform-brutality

Notes on deletion and technological sacrifice: https://networkcultures.org/geert/2025/08/27/notes-on-deletion-and-technological-sacrifice

Geert's two cents in the technofeudalism debate: https://networkcultures.org/geert/2024/03/22/cloud-capital-and-platform-regression-review-of-janis-varoufakis-techno-feudalism

The origins of the Duckrabbit: https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/duckrabbits-unveiled-a-sneak-peek-at-the-postartistic-theory-and-practice

ABOUT

Art in Permacrisis is a podcast on the organisation of art workers in the face of the ever-growing stack of crises, published by the Institute of Network Cultures and Caradt. This episode was hosted by Sepp Eckenhaussen.