#glovink #geertlovink
https://eurozine.com/extinction-internet/
@jessamyn @steve @timnitGebru I briefly live tweeted it here: https://twitter.com/thadk/status/1565317949216497665?s=20 (I probably recalled it better after 2 days than after 6 months.)
Geert #glovink was a strong presence throughout and some searching just turned up his subsequent Nov'22 inaugural lecture which has some common themes:
https://networkcultures.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/ExtinctionInternetINC2022Miscellanea.pdf
“"30 years later,... we're at the very beginning now [of the things Agre predicted]… There is a divide in Agre's work between online red rock eaters newsletter network observer on 1 hand& academic philosophic work on other hand In rare moments, 2 came together & that excites us!"”
"The proposition here is a renewed notion of social networks with an emphasis on caring, tools for intergenerational computation that serve problem- resolution on all levels of the stack of crises." #glovink
https://networkcultures.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/ExtinctionInternetINC2022Miscellanea.pdf
“Convince me that this is not the digital dark age,” Regina Harsanyi declared [on the bird site] in 2022. The loss of private space feels real. And in many ways, it is. We have been pulled into a virtual black hole. Yet, there is beauty in the breakdown. ' #glovink
https://networkcultures.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/ExtinctionInternetINC2022Miscellanea.pdf
"The human mind has reached a state of saturation." #glovink
https://networkcultures.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/ExtinctionInternetINC2022Miscellanea.pdf
'... 21st century version of psychoanalysis. In The Third Unconscious, Franco Berardi calls for a psychoanlysis “that should assume the horizon of chaos and exhaustion as a starting point for reflection.”' #glovink p18
https://networkcultures.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/ExtinctionInternetINC2022Miscellanea.pdf
"My generation found out early that the internet, in Derrida’s and Stiegler’s terms, is a pharmakon: it is both toxic and curative. The critique on its underlying premises, for instance, the Californian Ideology, is thus both a rejection and a proposition. ... First diagnosis, then restorative care. Two necessary steps to begin the process of healing." #glovink p15
https://networkcultures.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/ExtinctionInternetINC2022Miscellanea.pdf