TimesNewRomanPSMT; Welcome to my web archive. \

\ Things have changed since I started my blog at > early 2006.\

\ Currently I am using the under Wordpress to store my articles, essays and interviews. You can see them on the right side of the blog. It is already a long list. Eventually I will move them here. Until further notice you can consider this the Geert Lovink 1998-2005 archive.\

\ In 2005-2006 I was based at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin, the Institute for Advanced Study. There I finished the manuscript of my next book on critical Internet culture, Zero Comments, scheduled for publication on August 1, 2007. After Routledge New York had not looked at the manuscript for four months, things have now slowly started to move, but there might be more delays. Keep in mind: I sent them the finished manuscript early September 2006.\

\ Partly in response to the slow editorial process at Routledge I have started to repackage material that I wrote for Zero Comments. I guess you are aware that a new media theory which pretends to intervene in current debates does get outdated pretty soon. Then why write books in the first place, you might ask? Why this torture? The answer that I am a book lover, having been involved in book publishing since 1981 is probably not sufficient. The fact that book publishing is an academic career requirement is not satisfying either. What I love about book making is the process of concise packaging of ones ideas into a portable format. Despite the phenomenal rise of digital distribution channels the book remains the dominant form of knowledge production. Those who love books and have an intense presence on the Internet there are numerous conditions to overcome!\

\ I received an enormous response to the summary of my Blogging, the Nihilist Impulse essay that Eurozine published ( > ). So far the essay appeared in German, Danish, Lithuanian and Italian with more translations to come.\

\ When I got back in Amsterdam I started working with my new media MA students at the University of Amsterdam. As a part of the assignment they produced a collaborative blog called Masters of Media: > . After the My-Creativity event in November 2006 ( > ) and visits to Delhi and Sydney the Institute of Network Cultures started working on a range of applications for research. Wespend most of 2007 on this work and host two conferences: Network Theory late June and Video Vortex late November. Also I have written a new book proposal. Oh no, not again!\

\ Thatthe overview, enjoy the archive.\ \
www.networkcultures.org/geert

nettime November 2005

Explorations beyond the Official Discourse