Geert Lovinks Theorie des Bloggens
Geert Lovink
Blogging, the nihilist impulse
Original in English - First published in Lettre Internationale 73 (German version)
Media theorist and Internet activist Geert Lovink formulates a theory of weblogs that goes beyond the usual rhetoric of citizens' journalism. Blogs lead to decay, he writes. What's declining is the "Belief in the Message". Instead of presenting blog entries as mere self-promotion, we should interpret them as decadent artefacts that remotely dismantle the broadcast model.
Blogging, the nihilist impulse
Original in English - First published in Lettre Internationale 73 (German version)
Media theorist and Internet activist Geert Lovink formulates a theory of weblogs that goes beyond the usual rhetoric of citizens' journalism. Blogs lead to decay, he writes. What's declining is the "Belief in the Message". Instead of presenting blog entries as mere self-promotion, we should interpret them as decadent artefacts that remotely dismantle the broadcast model.
kschoenberger - 16. Jan, 10:10
Blogging als nihilistische Praxis?
In seinem Artikel "Blogging, the nihilist impulse" fragt der Geert Lovink nach der gesellschaftlichen Stimmung, die sich in der medialen Form und Gestaltung des Bloggens manifestiert, sowie nach ihren Potenzialen.
Laut Lovink drückt sich im Verhältnis der BloggerIn zu den Mainstreammedien eine nihilistische Grundhaltung aus, welche die Form eines kreativen Nihilismus anzunehmen vermag:
"Nihilism is no longer a danger or problem, but the default postmodern condition. (...) In the media context this would be the moment in which mass media lost their claim on the Truth and could no longer operate as authority. (...) Blogging is a nihilistic venture precisely because the ownership structure of mass media is questioned and then attacked."