In a recent interview, Geert Lovink called the internet perhaps the mistake of his generation. According to him, the idea that people can control it is naive. ‘Platform Brutality’ is the eighth book in Lovink’s series about the internet and forms a trinity with ‘Sad By Design’ (2019) and ‘Stuck On The Platform’ (2022), which… Continue reading dreaming
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materialism
There is a connection between our lost faith in a better future and the growing popularity of science fiction, German A. Duarte, Andrea Facchetti, and Seçil Uğur Yavuz from the Faculty of Art and Design at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano in Northern Italy argue. By analyzing the work of author Philip K. Dick, they… Continue reading materialism
what is sci-fi?
How do you define science fiction? That is the question that has occupied Steven Shaviro for decades. Now that he is approaching sixty, he still has no answer. That is precisely as it should be, writes Shaviro: science fiction has no clear boundaries, which is good. Science fiction is an important genre, he emphasizes. For… Continue reading what is sci-fi?
Why we need design sociology
“Man becomes, as it were, the sex organs of the machine world, as the bee of the plant world, enabling it to fecundate and to evolve ever new forms. The machine world reciprocates man’s love by expediting his wishes and desires, namely, in providing him with wealth.”Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media (1964) In Coded Bias, MIT Media… Continue reading Why we need design sociology