[D66] Platform Brutality

[René Oudeweg]

https://valiz.nl/publicaties/platform-brutality

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Platform Brutality
2–3 minutes

Auteur: Geert Lovink

Ontwerp: Irene Stracuzzi

Serie: Making Public

September 2025, Valiz | pb | 304 blz. | 24 x 14,5 cm (h x b) | Engels | 
ISBN 978-94-93246-58-4 | € 26,50

Geert Lovink is a Dutch media theorist, internet critic and author of 
many publications, translated into various languages. In 2004 he founded 
the Institute of Network Cultures at the Amsterdam University of Applied 
Sciences (HvA).

The ‘Making Public’ series investigates ‘the public’, the civil domain, 
both online and offline, where knowledge, values and commodities are 
shared. What does this notion of ‘public’ mean? How does this domain 
change under the influence of social, political and technological 
tendencies? Where are the boundaries of ‘the public’ and how are they 
determined? What forms of responsibility and solidarity does ‘the 
public’ invoke? And how do artists and culture critics shape the debate 
on these issues?

Platform Brutality besproken

     Lees hier een bespreking van Platform Brutality door Lisette Wegener.

https://www.hva.nl/nieuws/2025/9/platform-brutality-van-verleiding-naar-dwang

The internet has become an integral part of all human activities. Its 
toxic aspects have fully permeated our personal, social and political 
lives, with people using it to attack others, normalise violence, spread 
fake news and make propaganda for extrme-right causes, to name just a 
few. This brutal turn ultimately affects all. The central thesis is that 
social media no longer just distracts—it wounds. And yet, we stay.

Technological violence is essentially remote, invisible and indirect. 
Exclusion, which many do not immediately notice, happens deep inside the 
code and network architecture. The answer will not be pacification or 
regulation but the dismantling of the platform principle itself.

Platform Brutality not just offers critical analyses but also dives into 
alternatives. Topics range from the violent turn of the internet and 
techno-feudalism debates, to loneliness on social media, radical data 
critique, mythologies that surround the smart phone, dreaming in the 
computer age, offline romanticism to question how to leave the 
platforms, bring back social networks and design a new balance between 
analogue and digital.