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  • Marnie Fogg

    Fashion Illustration, 1930 to 1970. From Harper's…

  • Markus Miessen

    The Nightmare of Participation

  • Zbynek Baladran, Vit Havranek (Hg.)

    Atlas of Transformation

  • Mike Jay

    High Society. Mind Altering Drugs in History and Culture

  • S. Gaensheimer, S. von Olfers (Hg.)

    Not in Fashion. Photography and Fashion in the 90s

  • Francis Alys

    A Story of Deception

  • Dominique Ghiggi

    Baumschule. Kultivierung des Stadtdschungels

  • Susan S. Fainstein

    The Just City

  • Teal Triggs

    Fanzines

  • Jan Verwoert

    Tell Me What You Want, What You Really, Really Want

  • Boris Groys

    History Becomes Form. Moscow Conceptualism

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    Selected Maria Lind Writing

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    Judgment and Contemporary Art Criticism

  • Otto Neurath

    From Hieroglyphics to Isotype. A Visual Autobiography

  • Elisabeth Blum

    Atmosphäre. Hypothesen zum Prozess der räumlichen…

  • dérive 40/41

    Understanding Stadtforschung

  • James Nice

    Shadowplayers. The Rise and Fall of Factory Records

  • Giorgio Agamben

    Nacktheiten

  • Florian A. Schmidt, Peter Lasch,…

    Kritische Masse. Von Profis und Amateuren im Design

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    Left, Right, Up, Down. Neue Ansätze für die Gestaltung von…

  • Tony Conrad, Jutta Koether, John Miller

    XXX Macarena LP

  • Paul Le Blanc, Helen C. Scott (Hg.)

    Socialism or Barbarism? The Selected Writings of Rosa…

  • Lyle Owerko

    The Boom Box Project. The Machines, the Music...

  • Enn Ots

    Decoding Theoryspeak. An Illustrated Guide to Architectural…

  • Veit Erlmann

    Reason and Resonance. A History of Modern Aurality

  • S. Ehmann, R. Klanten (Hg.)

    Turning Pages. Editorial Design for Print Media

  • Jens Müller, Karen Weiland (Hg.)

    Kieler Woche. Geschichte eines Designwettbewerbs

  • Martino Stierli

    Las Vegas im Rückspiegel. Die Stadt in Theorie, Fotografie…

  • Andres Lepik

    Small Scale, Big Change

  • Benedict Boucsein

    Graue Architektur. Nachkriegsarchitektur

  • Harald Bodenschatz, Thomas Flierl (Hg.)

    Berlin plant. Plädoyer für ein Planwerk Innenstadt Berlin 2…

  • T.J. Demos

    Dara Birnbaum. Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman

  • C. S. Rabinowitz, N. Kovacs (Hg.)

    Assume Vivid Astro Focus

  • Michael Merrill

    Louis Kahn. On the Thoughtful Making of Spaces

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    Abstract City #04. Urbanes Hausen

  • Rainald Goetz

    Elfter September. 2010

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    Dance with Camera

  • Todd Oldham

    Joan Jett

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    The Rejected, the Recycled, the Regenerated

  • Margit Mayer

    Civic City Cahier 1. Social Movements in the (Post-)…

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    Contemporary Painting in Context

  • M. van Hal, S. Ovstebo, E. Filipovic (…

    The Biennial Reader

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    Typomag. Typography in Magazines

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    Los Logos. Compass

  • Carsten Nicolai

    Moiré Index

  • Pierre Guyotat

    Coma

  • Sara De Bondt, Fraser Muggeridge (Hg.)

    The Master Builder. Talking with Ken Briggs

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    Gestaltung denken. Ein Reader für Designer und Architekten

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    Candide. Journal for Architectural Knowledge Heft 2

  • Giacomo Leopardi

    Dialogue between Fashion and Death

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    Total Housing. Alternatives to Urban Sprawl

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    The Portable John Latham

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    New Communities

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    Trends and Fads

  • Igor Marjanovic, Katerina Rüedi Ray

    Marina City. Bertrand Goldberg's Urban Vision

  • Ingo Niermann

    Solution 186–195. Dubai Democracy

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    On the Movement of the Fried Egg and Other Astronomical…

  • Harald Bodenschatz

    Städtebau in Berlin. Schreckbild und Vorbild für Europa

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    Dead on Arrival

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    Berlin Sampler. Le son de Berlin de 1904 à 2009

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    Every Day is a Good Day. The Visual Art of John Cage

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    Wohnlabor Berlin

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    Ret Marut Handshake (Vinyl)

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    Formlose Ähnlichkeiten oder die Fröhliche Wissenschaft des…

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    Restless Cities

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    Rethinking the Power of Maps

  • Koen Brams, Dirk Pültau

    The Clandestine in the Work of Jef Cornelis

  • Bless

    Retroperspective Home N° 30 – N° 41

  • Reinhold Martin

    Utopia's Ghost. Architecture and Postmodernism, Again

  • Architecture Words 5

    Max Bill: Form, Function, Beauty = Gestalt.

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    Utopia of Sound. Immediacy and Non-Simultaneity

  • Michael Schmidt

    89/90

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    Living in the End Times

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    The Studio Reader. On the Space of Artists

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    IDEA 341. Dialogues with Tatsuya Ariyama

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    Design/Research 02

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    Chain Ring

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    Show and Tell. A Chronicle of Group Material

  • Duy Nguyen

    Über Origami

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    The Politics of Recorded Sound (Social Text)

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    49 Cities

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    Introduction to Civil War (Semiotexte)

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    Solution 168-185. America

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    The Architectures of Atelier Bow-Wow. Behaviorology

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    Pink Noises. Women on Electronic Music and Sound

  • Frederique Bergholtz, Iberia Perez (Hg.)

    (Mis)reading Masquerades

  • Stephen Graham

    Cities under Siege. The New Military Urbanism

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    Acoustic Territories. Sound Culture and Everyday Life.…

  • Helmut Höge

    Pollerforschung

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    The Form of the Book Book

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    Modern Architecture in Africa

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    Curating and the Educational Turn

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    Garden Wisdom and Know-How

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    Die Alarmbereiten

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    Was passiert? Stellungnahmen zur Lage der Universität

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    Dubai Düsseldorf

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    Sun Ra. Interviews & Essays

Sad by Design: On Platform Nihilism

Melancholy has always been with us. Nowadays, though, it’s a design problem—its highs and lows coded into the social media platforms on which we spend so much of our lives. We click, we scroll; we swipe, we like. And after it all, we wonder where the time went, and what, other than a flat and empty feeling, we got for it.
Sad by Design offers a critical analysis of our social media environment and what it’s doing to us. Geert Lovink analyzes the problems of toxic viral memes, online addiction, and the lure of fake news. He shows how attempts to design sites to solve these problems have, in their studied efforts to be apolitical, been unable to generate either a serious critique or legitimate alternatives. But there is an answer: Lovink calls for us to acknowledge the engineered intimacy of these sites—because boredom, he argues, is the first stage of overcoming “platform nihilism,” which can free us to organize to stop the data harvesting industries that run them.
'Geert Lovink, who is expertly familiar with digital dynamics - technological as well as social - provides in this book a searing criticism of platform nihilism, considered above all as a perversion of computational design' -- Bernard Stiegler, author of 'The Age of Disruption: Technology and Madness in Computational Capitalism' 'Sad by Design: on Platform Nihilism, despite the title, is not a sad book. It dissects our digital addictions with the dynamite power of critical theory. It's a savage journey into the heart of the digital self, and a wake-up call to break free of our own enslavement' -- Donatella Della Ratta, author of 'Shooting a Revolution: Visual Media and Warfare in Syria' 'Dystopian ... a scathing indictment of a technology that transforms the very notion of self into a sharing platform.' -- Eva Illouz, author of 'Why Love Hurts: A Sociological Explanation'


Geert Lovink
Sad by Design: On Platform Nihilism
Pluto Press, 2019, 9780745339344