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.

In the first episode of a new season, we sit down with Justin O’Connor. A global policy expert, author, and a Professor of Cultural Economy at the University of South Australia. In this episode, we talk about his book Culture Is Not an Industry: Reclaiming Art and Culture for the Common Good. Justin explains how theoretically poor the concept of the ‘creative industry’ actually is, and how it has messed up cultural policy in many countries. We then talk about an alternative policy vision: art and culture for the common good, anchored in the foundational economy.

LINKS & REFERENCES

Justin O’Connor’s website: justin-oconnor.com

Culture Is Not an Industry: Reclaiming Art and Culture for the Common Good: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526171269

The Foundational Economy Collective: foundationaleconomy.com

Reset: Een nieuw begin voor kunst en cultuur: starfishbooks.org/justin-oconnor-reset

ABOUT

Art in Permacrisis is a podcast on the organization 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 and edited by Anielek Niemyjski.

Gizem Üstüner is an artist and researcher based in Amsterdam, whose work is a direct confrontation with the realities of precarity, migration, and womanhood. In recent years, she’s been traveling to Yogyakarta, Athens, Istanbul, and back to Amsterdam for the long-term ‘Low-Budget Projects’. Wherever she goes, Gizem seeks to build solidarity through one-on-one exchanges with peers navigating struggles similar to hers. Over coffees, cigarettes, nights out, or moments of protest, she listens, connects, and shares in the everyday tactics and resistance strategies that cultural practitioners develop in response to the cultural, economic, and political infrastructures they inhabit. In this podcast, we discuss the different chapters of Low Budget Projects, and what they tell us about transparency, solidarity, humor, and resistant joy among art workers’ communities.

LINKS & REFERENCES

Low-Budget Projects IG: instagram.com/lowbudgetprojects

Low-Budget Projects Amsterdam: https://framerframed.nl/en/projecten/low-budget-projects-do-not-expect-anything-out-of-the-blue

Low-Budget Projects Athens: yellowbrick.gr/step-47-low-budget-projects

Gizem on Stegi Radio: stegi.radio/artist/gizem-uestuener

ABOUT

Art in Permacrisis is a podcast on the organization 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 and edited by Salome Berdzenishvili.